A day-long animation conference, created by animators and for animators, is debuting in Chicago this weekend, and it sounds like a must-attend event if you’re anywhere in the region.
The Frame-by-Frame Animators Conference, or FxF for short, takes place this Saturday at DePaul University. For a first-year event, the guest list is quite compelling, and the daylong event offers a diverse program of talks, panels, workshops, and demos with an audience of animators and animation students.
The conference’s three guests of honor are names that’ll be familiar to anyone who follows independent animation: filmmaker-turned-gamemaker David OReilly (who will be interviewed onstage by Jacob Ciocci, co-chair of the DePaul Animation MFA program), director of the Oscar-nominated short Fresh Guacamole Pes (who’ll be interviewed by stop-motion animator Meghann Artes), and independent filmmaker Joanna Priestley, whose new feature North of Blue will screen at Annecy month (she’ll be interviewed by co-chair of the DePaul Animation MFA program Amy Lockhart).
