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VFX Supervisor Patrick Ferguson Joins MPC LA
SIGGRAPH 2018: A Chat with Computer Animation Festival Director Larry Bafia
Ahead of this year’s SIGGRAPH Conference, Computer Animation Festival director Larry Bafia reflects on his experiences heading up this year’s edition, and dishes up some sage advice for first-time attendees.
f°am studio Creates ‘Influencers’ for MAXON
Dynamic short film showcases the advanced features of Cinema 4D Release 20, a breakthrough version of MAXON’s iconic 3D design and animation software.
Emile Awards Now Accepting Submissions for 2018 Edition
Expanded two-day event running December 7 & 8 in Lille, France to include talks, master classes, workshops, exhibitions and screenings.
Winners Announced for SIGGRAPH 2018 Computer Animation Festival
MoPA short ‘Hybrids’ wins best in show; Supinfocom’s Overrun’ wins best student project; DreamWorks Animation’s ‘Bilby’ receives Jury Award.
OIAF Announces 2018 Student Short and Commissioned Film Selections
18 commissioned films and 13 animated student short films selected to compete at the 2018 Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Two Weeks Left for CINANIMA Festival Submissions
The 42nd edition of Portugal’s leading animation festival is looking for animated features, shorts and commissioned work.
ReAnimania’s 10th Edition Open for Submissions
Annecy Announces 2018 TV, Commissioned Films
SUPERTOON 2018 Wants Animated Films
International competition in Croatia seeks entries in five categories for the festival, scheduled for July 22-17 in Croatia.
Jean-Marie Marbach Creates Mesmerizing New Music Video for Tennyson
Made entirely using Red Giant’s Trapcode Suite, the popular Adobe After Effects plugins for motion graphics and custom AE scripting, ‘L’oiseau qui danse’ is an homage to the abstract animation style of Visual Music.
Awesome Inc Brings ‘Big Chicken Small Movie’ to Life for KFC
New 2D-animated short brought to life by Atlanta-based animation production studio Awesome Inc pays homage to Marietta, GA’s beloved 56-foot-tall steel fowl.
Freitag Launches Animated ‘Tarp Blanche’ Campaign
Five animation directors from Zurich to Argentina tell the Freitag story from truck to bag the way they see it.
Oscar-Winning Director Laurent Witz Helms ‘Cogs’ Short for AIME
CG-animated short from the director of the 2014 Academy Award-winning animated short ‘Mr. Hublot’ is produced by Luxembourg-based Zeilt Productions for agency M&C Saatchi Sydney and Australian non-profit AIME.
Nexus Teams with Director FX Goby on Short Film for Google I/O ‘17
Produced alongside creative studio Mighty Nice, ‘The Story of An Idea’ builds from hand-drawn 2D black-and white-animation to a full CG VFX-heavy grand finale.
‘The Burden,’ ‘Over the Wall’ Win Cristal Awards at Annecy 2017
Sweden’s ‘The Burden’ directed by Niki Lindroth Von Bahr wins Cristal Award for a Short Film; Japanese director Masaaki Yuasa’s ‘Lu Over the Wall’ receives Cristal for a Feature Film.
Annecy Festival Awards Special Prizes at 2017 Edition
Junior Jury Award for a Short Film given to director Cloud Yang’s ‘Valley of White Birds’ produced at Wolf Smoke Animation Studio in China.
Gorillaz Deliver New 360-Degree Animated Video, ‘Saturnz Barz’
New Virtual Reality video directed by Gorillaz founder Jamie Hewlett sets a record for the highest debut of a VR video in YouTube history.
Nice Shoes, No Fixed Address Spin a Web for the Canadian Centre for Protection
Short film inspired by Manga, graphic novels, and the work of Frank Miller and Edward Gorey, introduces a groundbreaking tool that detects and helps remove images of child sexual abuse on the Internet.
Igor Kovalyov’s ‘Before Love’ Wins Grand Prix Award at HAFF 2016
Japan’s ‘Track’ by Tochka, Kazue Monno and Takeshi Nagata, wins the Grand Prix award in the non-narrative short category; ‘Cafard,’ directed by Jan Bultheel, is awarded the Grand Prix for feature animation; Nina Gantz wins the Grand Prix award in the student film category for ‘Edmond.’
New Poster, Short Film Selections Unveiled for Annecy 2016
Official selections include 54 short films in competition -- 34 percent of them made by women -- out of nearly 2,700 submissions, with France, Belgium, Canada and Germany leading the pack.
Annecy Unveils 2015 Short Film, TV Selections
Fifty-three short films have been selected to screen at Annecy 2015 -- with 30 percent of them made by women -- including 10 films competing in the Off-Limits category and 33 out of competition.