Earlier this week I had the pleasure of sitting down with the very awesome Bill Plympton who needs little introduction. His 5th feature film to date, Idiots and Angels , is getting its theatrical release this October 6th here in New York at the IFC Center. Plympton’s catalog of shorts and features are often comedic…
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Flying the Flag at Se-Ma-For: Guest Article by Tom Gasek Since I have been teaching at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the last 5 years I have been having wonderful working summer “vacations.” After 27 years of professional activity in the area of character stop motion work (including stints with Nick Park, Peter Lord,…
DetailsNew additions to the Events Calendar: September 23rd, Thursday 8pm 92Y Tribeca presents – Irrational Reactions: The Animated Worlds of John R. Dilworth September 24th & 25th 92Y Tribeca presents – 6th Annual New York City Short Film Festival September 25th, Saturday 2pm Animazing Gallery presents – John Canemaker Booksigning October 1st & 2nd Museum…
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At a time when each month brings news of another NY animation talent departing for the West Coast (we just waved goodbye to the talented animator/director Dan Forgione, for instance), it’s a gift to our community that we have Tim and Mike Rauch (pictur…
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Above is a series of four paintings my dad made over one week in 1963. Two years out of Cooper Union, he was working as an art director at a small ad agency. During a rare slow week he used his time to make these paintings with whatever art materials w…
DetailsASIFA-East warmly thanks Elliot Cowan for all his hard work these past two years! He will be sorely missed here, but I’m sure you will all see him around. Please extend a warm welcome to Katie Cropper, who will be coming on board as our New Community Blogger, Mailing List and Facebook Administrator!! We are…
DetailsWith the arrival of Labor Day and the end of summer fast approaching, ASIFA-East ends its hiatus and is back in full effect with tons of exciting events planned this year! We hope you will join us – and on that note – here’s a bit of exciting news! ASIFA-East Memberships can now be paid…
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As we all know, people have been making commercial animation for the Web for more than a decade. At the beginning, Web animation was a shaky speculation. Some companies tried to use it to create a sort of TV channel-style destination, speculating with …
DetailsNew additions to the Events Calendar: August 28 & 29 11:05am IFC presents – Summer Wars September 1st – 14th Film Forum presents – My Dog Tulip September 3 – 6, 18 &19 11am IFC presents – Kid Flix Mix September 21st, Tuesday 7pm ASIFA-East presents – An Evening with The Electric Company September 23rd,…
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*drawing above from my new indie film in-progress. The busier I get, the more determined I get to jam in some time to work on personal projects. I mentioned a few posts ago that for the short films I’m making for Sesame’s Word on the Street series, the…
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