Birdy The Mighty: Decode Season 1
Teenage boy meets scantily clad alien girl reluctantly out to save humanity. Great action and prepubescent hijinks ensue.
Category: Art
When Art Lives With Dancing Cats
There's been a lot of response to my last article. This really interesting challenge just arrived in my inbox. In fact, it’s so strong that I’m publishing it in full. It’s from Janet Blatter, a cognitive scientist, author, and film script and development consultant.
I'VE SEEN FILMS Announces the 2011 Call for Entries!
After the very successful 2010 Edition, I'VE SEEN FILMS International Film Festival announced, along with its founder, international artist Rutger Hauer, that the Festival’s 4th Edition will be held from October 5 to 14, 2011 in Milan, Italy.
In Awards, Call for Entries, Films, Places, Writing, Awards, Call for Entries, Films, Writing | Art, Headline News | Geographic Region: Europe
But Is It Art?
Two billion videos are viewed daily on YouTube. Is any of it art? And does it matter?
Notes from under the Otaku
I hope everyone had a great holiday, and is looking forward to an indulgent New Year's Eve.
In Acting, Anime, Books, Event, Films, Games, Home Entertainment, People, Television | Art | Blogs: The Anime Beat
Auryn Releases “Auryn Ink” Watercolor App for the IPad
Auryn's new groundbreaking iPad app "AURYN INK" creates the authentic simulation of watercolor painting.
Steven Woloshen: At the Heart of Experimental Animation
Steven Woloshen creates animation in cars, at work, in airports, on planes… in other words wherever and whenever he has ten consecutive minutes to play. We chatted over bottled water at the Ottawa International Animation Festival this past October, and continued by email after his return to Montreal.
Dark Ages: The Sequel - Is our Digital Art Future-Proof?
During the first Dark Ages, folks living in the shadow of the Roman Aqueduct said, “What the heck is that thing?” They yanked stones from it to build their huts, it became a landmark, but as far as they knew, IT was created by wizards—or maybe the more advanced thought aliens were responsible. The records of what IT was, and how and why IT was built were either lost, destroyed, or irretrievable through the methods of the day.
Frenzer Foreman Animation Forum (podcast) x 20
Special Guest: Ottawa International Animation Festival - Part 1. Full laurels, keys to capitals, and banks of international accolades might weigh down other comedy podcast journaltarians of animation, but never for the lion-hearted, docu-brave, master news-making martyrs (and hyperbolically humble) Joel Frenzer and Alan Foreman. Join them as they interview animation's brightest and best about books, inappropriate cartoons, competing podcasts, pirates, and pumpkins - live from North America's largest festival of international animation in Ottawa, ON in 2010 at the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2010.
Caroline Leaf: A Serious Game
Several years ago I’d heard that Caroline Leaf had moved on from filmmaking and was now painting. I was curious to know what was behind the shift, and even more curious to see her current work. I finally had an opportunity to interview her.
Viz Releases Manga Series Itsuwaribito
Whether we like it or not, lying and deception are part of the heroic tradition. Enter Utsuho. A troublemaker at heart, he’s intent on using his wicked ways for good.
Is Paris Burning?...No, It’s Freezing!
I came to Paris to reset. Thoreau once wrote that it is best if one moves every seven years. If life consists of doing the same thing as a matter of habit over and over again, perspective is lost and the opportunity to truly know oneself never realized. In adversity is truth. Thoughtless patterns are numbing. Time to re-discover. It’s good to be uncomfortable. Good to be uprooted.
Framed: Drawings In Motion
The Drawing Center (in New York) in collaboration with Smart Spaces, the not-for-profit art space that uses vacant store fronts as their roaming venue, is presenting a show of animated shorts called Framed: Drawings In Motion.
VIZ Adds Japanese Sci-Fi Titles
It’s no secret that VIZ’s catalogue is diverse, and truly has something for everyone. Well, continuing along those lines, the release of The Ouroboros Wave and Dragon Sword and Wind Child has just been announced.
Animation's Star Is Rising In the Art World
They're calling it a "paradigm shift in contemporary art", "a new sensibility in the art of our time". Galleries and their curators are starting to notice animation. It's been a long time coming.
Television Meets Streetwear in the First Ever Creative Collaboration
MTV Networks International (MTVNI) and leading streetwear label 55DSL announced today the launch of their first-ever creative collaboration, set to culminate in five brand new MTV on-air idents and six bespoke t-shirt designs
Presenting Five More YouTube Play Winners
So you wanna watch movies, eh? (Is my Canadian accent showing?) Well, pull up your potato chips and have a sit down...
What Does Cave Art Have To Do With Animation
Could the paleolithic men and women who created rock wall paintings have been the prehistoric ancestors of current animation artists?
Soundwalkers - A Must Watch
To say that Soundwalkers, a fascinating film by director and sound researcher Raquel Castro, sensitives us to the soundscape of our modern world is to minimize its achievement.
VIZ Launches Manga iPad App
It was only a matter of time before manga and anime apps appeared on the iPad. Fortunately, VIZ waited and definitely got it right. Check it out.
YouTube Play - The Winning Entries Part 1
The YouTube Play winning entries all have at least some form of animation content. Which tells me that animation's star is rising in the art world.
YouTube Play: Corralling Wild Cattle
Since 2005 YouTube has given us a prime venue for quick and dirty moving images. And now the powers that be in the ART world are going to use that forum to judge us filmmakers!
Naoki Urasawa’s PLUTO In Production
Chris Meledandri’s Illumination Entertainment has teamed up with Tezuka Productions to bring Urasawa’s PLUTO to the big screen as a live-action/CG hybrid.
Club 2 The Max Wants Artists
The new venue for celebrating anime in So Cal has a location for 2011 and is now seeking artists for its alley
BANDAI News from NYAF
Direct from the New York Anime Festival, here is the latest blurb from BANDAI regarding Lucky Star manga and other anime titles.
