2017 ASIFA East Animated Film Festival Film Call! INSTRUCTIONS Starting Jan 3rd, visit our festival website and submit your film in a two-part submission form. PART ONE outlines your entry information and a link to your (private) film. PART TWO submits your payment options. Entries missing payment will be disqualified. Each film submission requires a…
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NY studio looking for Animated Series Director with experience running a CG animated preschool television series, leading a writing team, heading up pre-production team and working with outsource studios. Current project is a pilot animatic production. Please email artists@moodystudios.com with a cover letter, resume and link to reel or portfolio. Website: http://www.moodystudios.com/
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Pratt Institute, Department of Digital Arts: 2D Animation Job Postings for Spring 2017 The Department of Digital Arts in the School of Art and Design at Pratt Institute seeks qualified, artistically minded 2D animation instructors who address the creation and use of traditional and digital animation for artistic expression as well as commercial production.…
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The New School Job Post link Applicants for faculty positions must apply on-line using the streamlined faculty application on The New School human resources website http://careers.newschool.edu. Applicants may be contacted at the discretion of the search committee for additional materials, such as digital work samples. The New School does not discriminate on the basis…
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Once upon a time there was a glass tower, standing at the edge of a metal forest, looking over the River of East. Its mighty walls were fortified with the cleverest of pyramids and its hall were bathed in golden globes of light. Visitors to this strange place could rest their weary feet on grass…
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“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 Dirty Morning Cartoons presented by Cartuna on Friday Aug 5th, 2016, as part of the Brooklyn Fire Proof Summer Series. I had just arrived in…
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by David Howard On Wednesday, August 17th, ASIFA-East members were invited to a screening of Laika’s latest stop-motion masterpiece, Kubo and the Two Strings. After the film, audience members took part in a Q & A with director and CEO of Laika, Travis Knight. Here are some notes taken from that night to give you…
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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 with a focus in animation and who come from diverse backgrounds and communities underrepresented in film and television are invited to apply. Along with a…
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“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 the 13th Animation Block Party. J.J. (animator, Saturday Night Live) was moderating “New York Animated Ads,” a selection of films ranging from 1929 to 2015,…
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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 OIAF is an annual five-day affair bringing art and industry together in a vibrant hub and attracting more than 28,000 artists, producers, students and animation…
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