ASIFA-East March Interview: Jake Armstrong
Jake Armstrong grew up in Norman, Oklahoma and moved to NY to study animation. He’s currently a freelance artist living in Brooklyn doing anything from animation to storyboarding to illustration…
SICAF 2011 International Digital Cartoon Competition
ASIFA East encourages its members to enter the SICAF 2011 International Digital Cartoon Competition.Digital artists—not just animators—may enter illustrations or comics of any length, from “Web Cartoon” (up to four…
Monthly Interview featuring Biljana Labovic
Interview by Dave Levy. Longtime ASIFA-East member, Biljana Labovic, the subject of our February interview, originally comes from Yugoslavia, where she studied Graphic Design and Illustration at the University of…
The Animation Hotline
New ASIFA-East member Dustin Grella is working on this really cool animation project and sends us this little note: I’m working on new project called the Animation Hotline. I’m going…
The New Animation Stars of NYC: Part 1
The longer I’ve observed the animation scene, the more I’ve come to notice that our art-form’s past achievements are usually applauded at the expense or at the underestimation of the great work that’s being done right now. I don’t think this happens fo…
Animation Goggles
Just over ten years ago I sat on my first animation festival jury outside of ASIFA-East’s annual jury screenings. It was The New York Expo, a now-defunct film festival that had been around for decades. I’ve since sat on a few other juries, most notably…
ASIFA-East Interview: Howard Beckerman
Introducing a new continuing monthly feature of ASIFA-East’s online Exposure Sheet, The ASIFA-East Interview. It’s no secret that the New York area contains some of the richest talent working in…
Animation Hiatus Survival Guide
A still from Andy Kennedy’s amazing new indie short, “Accumulonimbus.”Recently the animation crew behind Nick Jr’s Team Umizoomi, a production at New York’s Curious Pictures, began a year long hiatus between seasons. Some of this talented bunch instan…
The Right Pitch, The Right Way
Joel Moss Levinson donned as a Penguin in one of his previous video projects. Sorry for the very late post this week. Our place was down with the flu, which we became “the flew” as we traveled by plane to visit family. If you’ve never travelled sick, y…
My Year with Plympton
I’m far from alone in being fascinated with Bill Plympton’s films and career. Trying to describe his impact, John R. Dilworth once said, “Is he not our God?” But, since I’ve got a whole blog post to fill, I’ll try and say it in more words than that. Wh…