Annecy 2010: Celebrating 50 Years
Nancy Denney-Phelps reports back from the 50th Annecy festivities while Don Duga once again provides a vicarious sketchbook of festival highlights.
Category: Short Films
Computer Animation Festival Highlights: Beyond the Film Reels
The Computer Animation Festival at SIGGRAPH 2010 offers more than just a viewing experience.
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National Film Board Of Canada Launches iPad App
Starting today, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has its own iPad app, available free of charge at the iTunes Store or at the NFB's download page at NFB.ca.
Holland Animation Film Fest Issues Last Call for Entries
The Holland Animation Film Festival has issued its final call for entries for its 2010 event. Deadline for entries is 15 July 2010.
In Call for Entries, Event, Films, Short Films, Call for Entries, Event, Films, Short Films | Headline News | Geographic Region: Europe
Animation Block Party Releases Line-up
Here is the official program information for Animation Block Party's Seventh Annual Festival.
Academy Invites 135 to Membership
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 135 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures.
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Frenzer Foreman Animation Forum (podcast) x 12
It's the Alan Foreman Show!!! Alan briefly takes over the Forum with his one-man off-off-off-off-off Broadway Production of the Bobby McFerrin story. And guess what folks? It's Summetime! And that can mean only one thing... time to talk about the big summer blockbusters and predictions for future summer movies. Then Daphne Knouse-Frenzer and Rex Knouse-Frenzer drop by to give the kids' perspective on Hayao Miyazaki, Monsters, Monsters vs. Miyazaki, Miyazaki vs. Michel Gondy, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Foot-Spokespersons, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. And later, Joel and Alan get a special surprise from two globe-trotting pals of theirs.
SIGGRAPH 2010 Announces Computer Animation Festival Winners
SIGGRAPH announces the Computer Animation Festival's Best in Show, Jury Award, and Best Student Project recipients for SIGGRAPH 2010 to be held in Los Angeles this July.
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South African Animator Creates HappyLand Shorts Series
South African animator Mike Scott has created a new 52-episode shorts series called HAPPYLAND SHORTS.
In Cartoons, Short Films, Television, Cartoons, Short Films, Television | Headline News | Geographic Region: Africa
Autodesk Helps Remedy Ent. Create Thrilling Mystery of Alan Wake
3D art creation and animation software from Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) played an integral role in Remedy Entertainment's production of their recently released video game, "Alan Wake."
Trefz & TEAK To Launch Latest Surf Flick At Spain’s Surfilmfestibal 8
The waves are building off the coast of Spain, set to crash into the beach in June when Director Patrick Trefz' latest surf movie, Idiosyncrasies, hits the Amstel Surfilmfestibal 8 in San Sebastián.
Exclusive Day & Night Clip Comes to AWNtv
AWNtv has posted an exclusive clip from Pixar's new short film, DAY & NIGHT.
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Frenzer Foreman Animation Forum (podcast) x 11
This week on the Frenzer Foreman Animation Forum, Alan experiments with the fine art of circular breathing and Joel achieves a record-setting number of "nows" while both puzzle over the continuing misappearance of the FFAF computer. Then, after some hard-battled man-powered guest-summoning, screen writer and Troma film starlet Adeline Colangelo enters the Forum to dish about writing for animation, how one stumbles into being a professional writer, and the finer points of like, ya know, mumble-core.
MIMI AND GACK and the Bloomfield College Incubator Studio hit the ground running.
We are just finishing our second week of production on MIMI AND GACK. This year there is a whole new crew with a set of veterans from last year’s production of PETE’S ODYSSEY.
Toy Story Short Plays with Cars 2
In an interview with MSN, TOY STORY 3 director Lee Unkrich talked about the future of the TOY STORY characters.
Iraq Vet Puts War Story Into Stop-Motion
While our nation's military conflicts continue in Iraq and Afghanistan, a new generation of Veterans are returning to tell their war stories on film by becoming the directors and producers of their own documentaries. In Their Boots, a documentary series, presents OPERATION IN THEIR BOOTS, a paid film fellowship that will allow five Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans to get behind the camera and transform their experiences at war into powerful films fit for the silver screen.
DAY & NIGHT (2010) (****)
This endlessly clever short is one of the best produced by Pixar. Teddy Newton’s film features two 2D characters with a CG world alive in their bodies. One represents day and the other night. When Night sees the beautiful women sunbathing by the pool inside Day, a howl of jealousy bellows from him. He tries to take what day has, but every attempt shows that things that go on in the light are not the same in the dark.
Tokyo Disneyland Adding 3-D Mickey Attraction
Tokyo Disneyland has said it will launch a new 3-D Mickey Mouse attraction on January 24th, reports VARIETY.
Superfad Creates Preguntas Hermosas Short Film
Superfad's short film "Preguntas Hermosas" evokes a time that was shared between two people, told through a combination of "Poema X" by Pablo Neruda and "Under the Harvest Moon" by Carl Sandburg.
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The Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child - Animated by a Child
Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest, an animated short, is about Ms. Ingrid Pitt, a young Jewish girl and Holocaust survivor. When she was 8 years old, Ms. Pitt miraculously escaped the Stutthof concentration camp with her mother, surviving in the forest until the end of the War. I have the great honor to be invited by Beyond the Forest director and producer Mr. Kevin Sean Michaels and two-time Academy Award nominee Mr. Bill Plympton to be the sole animator for this film.
Mr. Fox, Lost Thing Take Top Prizes at Annecy
The Annecy International Animation Festival wrapped up its 50th edition on June 12, 2010.
In Awards, CG, Event, Films, Short Films, Stop-Motion, Television, Awards, CG, Event, Films, Short Films, Stop-Motion, Television | Headline News | Geographic Region: All
Frenzer Foreman Animation Forum (podcast) x 10
On this decisode of the Frenzer Foreman Animation Forum, Alan and Joel lament over the mysterious disappearance and unplanned obsolescence of The FFAF Computer, while entertaining a career in side-show freakery. Then Baman Piderman's own power-couple, shoe-illustrator Lindsay Small and shoe-phobic Alex Butera, discuss dinner, dating, working in cartoons, cartoon networking, avant-god animation assignments, and how perfectly complimentary skill sets boost both animation production and home economy. FFAF then gets a personal invite to their wedding where Joel and Alan will release doves through inventive voice-acting calisthenics.
Serbian Toon To Be Americanized in Live-Action
SHUTTER ISLAND writer Laeta Kalogridis has sold his pitch for a live-action remake of the Serbian animated short, TECHNOTISE; EDIT AND I, to Legendary Pictures, reports HEAT VISION.
Imagina Gets Toon Bug
Spanish sales firm, Imagina Int'l Sales is getting into the animation game, according to VARIETY.
In Business, Cartoons, Stop-Motion, Television, Business, Cartoons, Short Films, Television | Headline News | Geographic Region: Europe
Dr. Toon: Revisiting Barbera's Swan Song
Dr. Toon analyzes Joe Barbera's final Tom and Jerry short, The KarateGuard.
