#NYCAnimWknd ASIFA-East presents NYC Animation Weekend, an event where NYC’s most prestigious animation organizations come together to present programs and offer a place for animators and animation fans to meet, be inspired and enjoy animation. Beginning in Brooklyn on Friday, October 25th, Animation Speak/Easy will invite three artists to each share an animated short that…
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A conversation with Siz Wang Every school has a talented upperclassman who is told as a legend over lunch breaks. Mulan Fu is that legend in the 2020s at the NYU Animation Area. I started college in the year of the pandemic, so I never met her when she was still in school. I couldn’t…
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A conversation between Exit 73 Studios co owner Chris Burns and Doug Vitarelli with ASIFA-East intern Katelynn Duarte If you need a coffee while you’re traveling to Montauk to meet up with NY State’s easternmost based animator, there’s a little cafe on Main St. in Riverhead that serves a nice cup. Just get off exit…
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Animator, father, devoted husband and partner, historian, writer, and friend, Howard Beckerman touched the lives of so many for so long that no words can encapsulate the love felt for him as news of his passing travels throughout the animation community and the world. Howard Beckerman may not be a household name, but without exaggeration…
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by Keltie Duncan This article about ASIFA-East member Amy Kravitz is reprinted with permission from the ASIFA International website. “Many films are ‘about’ a topic, and have a message to deliver, or a story to tell. My films don’t embrace that approach. My intention is to create a non-verbal, visceral experience – an experience that…
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By Ray Kosarin This past year, ASIFA–East lost a beloved leader and friend. On October 9, Dick Rauh, oursecond and longest-serving president, died at the age of 98.Our ASIFA–East Animation Festival would not exist without him; Dick loved the festival and, forover two decades, his was the face that presided over this event. Dick was…
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A conversation with Robby Gilbert Jacob Kafka is one of the ‘quiet ones’ to keep an eye on. His work is thoughtful and sweet, and he embodies the spirit if the quintessential inventor/animator. Based in Brooklyn, Kafka has achieved uncommon success with the development and growing distribution of a piece of software, Rough Animator, which…
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A conversation with Doug Vitarelli Surrounded by the tobacco fields that for decades produced Topstones, one of the world’s greatest cigars, is Dean Lennert’s animation studio which for decades has been producing another quality product, the animated film “Dear Anna Olson.” Dean began his career as an animator while a student at NYU at Broadcast…
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A conversation with Robby Gilbert President’s Note:I’ve had the pleasure to teach animation to hundreds of students at some world class art schools for over 20 years. Many have gone on to have long and successful careers, pretty sure there’s an Oscar winner and a feature film director in that group. But none of them…
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