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The Japan Image Council has opened its call for applications for the Animation Artist In Residence Tokyo 2015. If you’ve had a film that has screened in an international festival or exhibition, I strongly encourage you to apply. As a previous resident of the program, I frequently find myself thinking about my wonderful experience in the residency.
Larry had me writing sequence scripts for "The Fox and the Hound," which turned out to be my assignment for the next six months. Part of the package was attending Woolie Reitherman's marathon story sessions, which often left me drained and dazed. There were also Woolie's marathon take-selection meetings, which left me drained and bewildered.
Veronika Samartseva is an animation director from Germany, who specializes in analog animation techniques. Her award-winning films have been shown at international festivals worldwide. After her graduation from HFF Konrad Wolf Babelsberg, Veronika joined the Berlin-based animation collective Talking Animals. Recently she started teaching animation at the BTK University of Design.
Ralph Bakshi pulled himself away from his drawing desk in New Mexico to chat with Cartoon Brew about his legacy, his latest project "The Last Days of Coney Island," which he recently funded on Kickstarter, and what he really thinks about the computer’s role in animation these days.
Fox's experiment with late-night animation didn't go as well as they had anticipated. The network will end its Saturday late-night animation block ADHD (Animation Domination High-Def) in June, less than a year after it began. It was originally created as a replacement for the cancelled sketch comedy show "MADtv."
Any exhibition that “…aims to demonstrate the centrality of animation to contemporary global culture…” is worth our attention, and the UK's Barbican Centre-produced “Watch Me Move: The Animation Show” has been doing that at museum venues since 2011. This June, it comes to the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville.
The 17th edition of the Holland Animation Film Festival concluded last Sunday in Utrecht, Netherlands. The winners of the top prizes for both feature film and narrative short hailed from South Korea.
Animation may not be the first thing that pops to mind when you hear the word Jamaica, but the Caribbean island of nearly 3 million people is making an effort to position itself as a player in the global animation industry.
This song gives a pretty good description of everything you'll know (or think you know) when you graduate from animation school.
The biennial British Animation Awards have announced their slate of nominees for 2014.
See which animated features, shorts, and VFX films from 2013 are nominated for an Oscar!
Late last year, we lost two noted animation talents from the United Kingdom: Harold Whitaker and Richard Taylor. We remember their contributions to the art form.
Animate Projects, the non-profit organization that supports experimental animation in Britain, has always been keen to adapt. Officially …
This morning, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for its Golden Globes award. The 71st edition of the Golden Globes will be presented on Sunday, January 12.
Disney's Frozen won't be released theatrically for another month-and-half, but it's already melting into one giant slushee of controversy.
"The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design" ranks among the most unique and delightful animation books in recent memory.
Besides creating animation, I love to study it theoretically. The process of creation for me is very ‘un-graspable’. There’s so …
As an animation professor at the School of Visual Arts, I try to keep abreast of all the latest animation how-to books. There are many …
Go here for Comic-Con Day 1 Animation EventsThe remaining half of programming for San Diego Comic-Con has been announced, and for your …
This morning, Comic-Con International: San Diego released the event schedule for Thursday, July 18th, the first day of programming at the …