Every Friday, Chris Robinson unleashes improvised and hastily scribbled cheer or loathing on the animation community to be digested, swallowed or... expelled. Today, some cheer for animation's defiant and foul mood.
Ottawa International Animation Festival selects 92 films from 1,992 entries, including ‘The Story of O.J.,’ designed and animated by The Mill and Titmouse, Clyde Petersen’s ‘Torrey Pines,’ Eva Cvijanovic’s ‘Hedgehog’s Home,’ and ‘My Father’s Room’ from South Korean director Nari Jang.
Carol Beecher and Kevin D. A. Kurytnik’s ‘Skin for Skin’ gets its world premiere at Fantasia, screening in competition, and Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre’s ‘Oscar’ will also screen as a part of the Montreal film festival’s program.
Scheduled for July 29th, the 11th Annual TAIS Animation Showcase screens the best in independent Canadian and international animated short films, the results of the 2017 Anijam competition and a new interactive VR work by artist Zeesy Powers.
The trade association member companies Pink Kong Studios and Cartoon Saloon will premiere animated short films ‘Departure’ and ‘Late Afternoon’ respectively at the 29th Annual Galway Film Fleadh.
Every Thursday, Chris Robinson takes a look at films from animation’s past. Today: Jesse Schmal's quirky, award-winning student film, Sub! (2000)
Director Tim Rudder and producer Bobby Beck led a team of artists in partnership with studio platform Artella to create the animated WebVR short.
The sessions will feature expert creators across film, games, computer animation, visual effects and virtual reality, presenting their work on projects like ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,’ ‘Cars 3’ and ‘Overwatch.’
Directed by Albertine Zullo and David Toutevoix, the stop-motion animated ‘The Cannonball Woman’ (‘La femme canon’) is the latest collaboration between producer Claude Barras and the National Film Board of Canada.
In which Chris Robinson asks animators profound and inane questions that have little to do with animation. Today's guest is British animator/scavenger, Paul Bush.
The iconic anime feature from Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli will play in U.S. movie theaters nationwide for two days only on Sunday, July 23 and Monday, July 24.
Every Tuesday, Chris Robinson digests and dissects (relatively) new indie animation short films. Today's short is the underappreciated Dino-Orange (How Birds Fly) by Lansing Bruce Robertson
Beloved coming-of-age story from Studio Ghibli to be screened in Japanese and English-dub versions.
Animated feature adaptation of the Harvey and Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel by ‘Lumberjanes’ creator Noelle Stevenson is currently in production at Blue Sky Studios for 20th Century Fox.
Every Monday, Chris Robinson serves up Animators Unearthed, a brief introduction to prominent and not-so-prominent indie animators. Today's artist: Rick Raxlen
Hornet director’s signature stop-motion papercraft returns for Amazon’s Prime Day 2017 with characters new and old.
Award-winning artists, directors and animators Nicolas Ménard, Louise Bagnall, Conor Finnegan and Eimhin McNamara will screen their animated films in Chapter, Cardiff on Saturday, July 22nd as a preview event for the new Cardiff Animation Festival (April 2018), both of which are organized by Cardiff Animation Nights.
Two films -- Annecy Cristal winner ‘Lu Over the Wall’ and ‘Night is Short, Walk On Girl’ -- from Japanese anime director Masaaki Yuasa to compete at the 41st edition of the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Every Friday, Chris Robinson unleashes improvised and hastily scribbled cheer or loathing on the animation community to be digested, swallowed or... expelled. Today: A lot of loathing of the festival obsession with premieres.
Every Thursday, Chris Robinson takes a look at films from animation’s past. Today: Mirai Mizue's 2007 mindbender, Lost Utopia.
In addition to the 800 Euro main award at the festival in Žilina, Slovakia, juries bestowed awards for the best music video, student film, video game pitches and video game jam.
In which Chris Robinson asks animators profound and inane questions that have little to do with animation. Today's guest is Estonian animator, Mait Laas.
Every Tuesday, Chris Robinson screens and hastily responds to (relatively) new animation short films. Today: Mynarski Death Plummet by Matthew Rankin.
Every Monday, Chris Robinson serves up Animators Unearthed, a brief introduction to prominent and not-so-prominent indie animators. Today, the works of Bob Sabiston.
SIGGRAPH 2017 will present the animated, student short film, created by Animationsinstitut alumni Kariem Saleh and Alexandra Stautmeister, with the award at a ceremony at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles on July 31, 2017.
