ASIFA-East Exposure Sheet

Article written by Elliot Cowan.

Animation, animation, animation.

We live and breath it every day, but the majority of us are, for the most part,  active in only a small part of this vast medium. There’s a big wide world of animation out there and ASIFA-East invited some of that world to come and chat. Last Tuesday, the 19th, a panel of representatives from five of New York’s top CGI and FX houses was hosted by Linda Beck.

The panelists were:

Lucien Harriot of Mechanism Digital

Mechanism played two reels for us. The first was a collection of their 3D and live … Continue Reading

Article by Linda Beck.

Last night’s qualified pitch panel of Carl Adams (Clambake Animation), Janice Burgess (Nickelodeon), Fran Krause (FranKrause.com), and Amid Amidi (CartoonBrew.com) spoke to a packed amphitheatre.  It looks like quite of few of you are interested in pitching.  Good!  We could use the jobs.

If you’re going to do this yourself, the first thing to ask yourself, is who are you and why are you pitching your property as an animated show?

According to Burgess, “You have to think about the audience.  With younger children, you need to consider who they are and their … Continue Reading

ASIFA-East is back from hiatus!!  Please join us for our first event of the Fall.  A special panel event on animation pitching and development to mark the release of David B. Levy’s new book.  Join us for a lively discussion with panelists Carl W. Adams (co-creator Assy McGee), Amid Amidi (cartoonbrew.com), Janice Burgess (creator of Backyardigans), Fran Krasuse (creator), and Debra Solomon (creator).

Book signing to follow.

SVA
School Of Visual Arts
209 East 23rd Street
(Bet. 2nd & 3rd Ave)
3rd Fl, Amphitheater
NYC

L to R: Julianne Cho, David Levy, Debra Solomon, Arron Augenblick, Norma Toroya, Catherine Branscome, and Bill Plympton. Photo Courtesy of the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre, and Broadcasting

Panel reported on by Dayna Gonzalez.

On May 5, 2009, The City of New York Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre, and Broadcasting, held a career panel … Continue Reading

Article written by Katie Cropper.

On Wednesday April 22, ASIFA-East held a panel discussion about the current state of the New York Animation industry. Moderated by the lovely Linda Beck, the main contributors were Steven Conner, Howard Beckerman, David Levy, David Wachtenheim, and, via email, Linda Simensky. All of which are pretty heavy names in New York animation so going into this discussion I expected some deep and meaningful words of advice and perhaps some reassurance for the Big Apple. I wasn’t disappointed, though I can’t say that the … Continue Reading

Careers in Animation – Free Panel to be Presented
by Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting,
School of Visual Arts and Branscome International

April 23, 2009 – On Tuesday, May 5, the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting, in conjunction with the School of Visual Arts and Branscome International, will host Careers in Animation, an intimate look inside the world of animation, presented at the SVA Theater on West 23rd Street. The panel is free and open to the public.

Careers in Animation will offer students and interested New Yorkers the chance to hear first hand accounts from a talented … Continue Reading

This Wednesday, ASIFA-East will be presenting a panel discussion with Howard Beckerman, Steve Conner, David Levy, and David Wachtenheim.  Subject:   The state of the NY Animation Industry.  Moderated by the lively Linda Beck.  This promises to be quite the discussion in light of recent events and industry blog commentary.  Come for the comraderie, stick around for some words of enlightenment and well-worn wisdom, and afterwards, get thee to the bar.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
7pm
School of Visual Arts
209 East 23rd Street
Room 502
http://www.sva.edu