Dirty Morning Cartoons
“Salt… I feel like you should eat less salt,” Leah said as she caressed my hand, underneath a towel in the heat of a Brooklyn summer night. We were at…
LAST MINUTE LAIKA MENTORSHIP
Film Independent Project Involve Program Announces the LAIKA Animation Fellowship for Emerging Filmmakers Apply by Friday, August 19, 2016 [editor’s note: this program appears to be in California] Emerging filmmakers…
NY Animated Pop Up Parties
“That’s the first time I ever heard the 1950’s called a renaissance,” J.J. Sedelmaier wondered out loud, in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It was Friday, July 29th, 2016, at…
Ottawa Int’l Animation Festival Discount!
The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), North America’s leading animation film festival, is pleased to announce a special offer for our partners! One of the world’s leading animation events, the…
A Darkly Tuned Evening
Adagio, 4:4 Five, Eight, and inhale: regret, animation, pocket monsters, one tank top, two tank tops- exhale: clean-up key-frames, hang a photograph, Showtime. Travel, distance, an hour of humidity that…
The Little International New York Prince
Les adultes ne comprennent jamais rien par eux-mêmes, Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, et il est fastidieux pour les enfants d’être toujours et pour toujours expliquer les choses à…
Titmouse 5 Second Day 2016
by Janelle Miau For the past eight years, Titmouse Animation Studio has held its annual “5 Second Day,” one day when all employees are allowed to make whatever films they…
Zootopia Suit Riot
“It doesn’t have to be realistic, it has to be believable,” said Darrin Butters, as we watched a variety of animals practicing their walk cycles on 2 legs. Darrin Butters…
If I could Tween Back Time
Today we are clearing the docket. Step Inside: the BoxHead/Roundhead movie with Elliot Cowan [how to turn a story into a movie], Cartoon Monsoon at the Annoyance Theatre [where we…
It’s a Jungle Out There: Virgile Bage’s “NYPDQ”
by David Howard NYPDQ tackles the dirty streets of New York and the work of two hard-nosed detectives as they clean up the city one case at a time. Except…