SH!NE at HOThead Studios seeks an animator to teach young students the basics of stop motion animation. The 90 minute classes run Monday and Thursday afternoons beginning in September. through December. The animator must be experienced using Dragonframe and the Adobe Suite. The candidate must also have experience working with children. Interested candidates should send…
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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 makes my choice of tank top more clear. It would have been more fun though, had not a tremendous surge of popularity crashed down on…
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This past Sunday, ASIFA-East hosted our 47th annual animated film awards at Parsons, The New School for Design, for a lively and excited audience. The films this year were exceptional and a good number of filmmakers were in attendance to receive their prizes and praise from the local ASIFA-East community in person. Thanks again…
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On Sunday May 15th, we held the 47th ASIFA East Animation Festival awards ceremony. Congratulations to all the winners, thank you to all the contributing filmmakers, and we couldn’t have done it without all of our members. BEST IN SHOW: Slow Wave – Andy Kennedy [vimeo 155080375 w=640 h=360] UPDATE: Photos from…
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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 eux, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. The East Coast premiere of The Little Prince was…
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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 like, the only rule being that it has to be at least five seconds long. “It was [co-owner] Shannon [Prynoski]’s idea,” explained Chris Prynoski, President…
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“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 is a Disney animator, and has been for 20 years. He visited The New School on Thursday, Feb 25th to discuss Disney’s new movie Zootopia…
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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 recreate PeeWee’s aesthetic], and DarkMatter presents: Pom Poko [why racoons represent colonialization]. Tuesday, Jan. 19th The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead – Screening…
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Drinking and drawing go hand in hand, but I’m sure I’ve never been to a bar that would accept a sketch as payment for a beer. Although ASIFA-East offers its own wonderful life drawing classes to it’s members (free, every Thursday night at The Productive) since the spring I have been attending DrinkNDrawBK in Williamsburg,…
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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 one of them is a bird so he’s more “hard-beaked.” The other is a rat. In fact, this concrete jungle is full of animals. NYPDQ…
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