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Ottawa Animation Festival 40th Anniversary Look-Back: ‘Inherent Obligations’
Annecy artistic director Marcel Jean examines the Ottawa grand prize-winning film "Inherent Obligations."
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Stop Motion Master Phil Tippett Brings Hand-Made Vitality to Augmented Reality Holo-Chess Game
Phil Tippett is using augmented reality to bring his classic creatures to life in the new game Hologrid: Monster Battle.
2016 Oscar Nominations: Feature Animation Acting Analysis
Acting instructor Ed Hooks explores the animated performances of this year's five feature animation nominees.
GLAS, America’s Newest and Biggest Animation Festival, Is Only Two Weeks Away
The deadline to purchase an online pass is tomorrow.
British Student Animation Dominates Sundance and Slamdance, Daniels Win Directing Prize for ‘Swiss Army Man’
The top animation prizes at both Sundance and Slamdance were won by student animated shorts from the U.K.
Kirsten Lepore Lends Stop-Motion Skill to Tonight’s ‘Adventure Time’
Lepore spoke with Cartoon Brew about the tactile wonder of stop-motion, gender and merit in animation, and why guest-directing 'Adventure Time' is a resume-stuffer that's hard to beat.
Slamdance 2016 Animation Selections Revealed
Get a preview of all the animated shorts coming to the 22nd edition of Slamdance next month.
GLAS Aims To Become The Next Major American Animation Festival
The festival is set to take place next March in California.
Animator Dillon Markey Transformed A Nintendo Power Glove Into An Essential Animation Tool
Stop motion animator Dillon Markey explains how he transformed the long-forgotten 1980s Power Glove Nintendo controller into an essential—and aesthetically splendid—tool for animating in stop motion.
Nikon Introduces $4,000 Stop Motion Animator’s Kit
Stop motion animation just got a little easier with the introduction of Nikon Animator's Kit.
7 Quirky Animation and Comic-Related Programs At This Year’s San Diego Comic-Con
Comic-Con International: San Diego is almost upon us, and the organizers have released the event's mammoth program schedule. The madness, taking place from July 24-27, includes hundreds of panels, discussions, art demos, and screenings, with everyone from Buzz Aldrin to Betty White getting their moment to shine.
Meet Tobias Stretch And His Life-Size Stop Motion Creatures
There are many ways to create animation, and most of them are tedious and life draining. It's pretty common to find animators incorporating some combination of chair and desk as a prison of their practice, where they trudge through their work while simultaneously wasting away. Tobias Stretch has no appetite for that lifestyle, and uses the world as his stop motion playground.
A Filmmaker Tests Out The NFB’s $1 Animation App, StopMo Studio
The NFB StopMo Studio app for the iPad provides essentially everything you need to jump into creating an animated film. You won't have any issues getting comfortable with the user interface if you've worked with animation programs before, and it seems more than approachable for newcomers young and old. Once you open up the program, you're welcomed with a short and succinct tutorial that covers the basic tools, and then opens up to allow you to explore the rest of the options available.
A Major Stop Motion Exhibit in Barcelona Explores Starewitch, Švankmajer and Brothers Quay
“Animated cinema is the demiurgic art par excellence: matter comes to life and is transformed in the hands and imaginations of the creators. They, more than anybody, know about the secret life of objects.” This description, comes from the exhibition “Metamorphosis: Fantasy Visions in Starewitch, Švankmajer and the Quay Brothers,” now playing at the Centre de Cultura Contemporanea (CCCB) in Barcelona, Spain, and it's a good summary of the work of these four visionary animators.
This Bear Animation Is Not Computer Animated
This short animation of a seemingly CG bear climbing stairs is garnering a lot of attention on the Internet because it's actually a CG bear printed as 3-D models and then animated in stop motion.
Allison Schulnik Exhibits Stop Motion Film at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum
Filmmaker and artist Allison Schulnik debuts a new work at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut this month.
Help Brett Foxwell Complete “Fabricated,” A Stop Motion Film 10 Years in the Making
Brett Foxwell is a mechanical engineer and stop motion animator who has dedicated the last ten years to completing his stop motion film …
Report: Society for Animation Studies Conference Focuses on Redefining Animation
Besides creating animation, I love to study it theoretically. The process of creation for me is very ‘un-graspable’. There’s so …
Czech Animation Legend Břetislav Pojar Dies at 89
One of the giants of 20th century animation, Czech animator and director Břetislav Pojar, died last Friday evening [link to story in …
Comic-Con Animation Guide
Less than a week remains until Comic-Con International begins in San Diego, and whether you’re a fan of animation, comics, fantasy …
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