It’s almost summer and that means Rooftop Films is projecting films on rooftops throughout New York City. This year’s festival features many animated shorts and our pals at Rooftop sent us a run-down. They are also offering ASIFA-East members a discount to the festival shows. Please look for the discount code in our weekly email…
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Need some feedback or inspiration? Our newest regular event showcases and critiques works in progress and motivates us all to keep moving forward on our personal work. Bring recent works, works-in-progress, and animation tests (totaling no more than 5 minutes) on DVD and an open mind for constructive comments by your peers! Date: Wednesday, May…
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Article by Tristian Goik. For those who studied animation at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, we all share a certain fondness for squeaky wooden floorboards, dusty lunchboxes, and Cintiq #6. The animation department, lead by John Canemaker and recently Dean Lennert, provides a great environment for creativity. However, it’s up…
DetailsArticle by Caresse Singh. I had known Mike Rauch for a while from ASIFA events and he’d always struck me as a down to Earth, relatable and approachable guy. I learnt even more about him and his brother, Tim, at the April 20th ASIFA event, which shined a spotlight on the Rauch Brothers. Listening to them talk…
DetailsASIFA-East member and former aNYmator writer Jake Friedman has written a wonderfully informative and well researched article for AWN on Art Babbitt and his effect on animation education. To read the full article, click here.
Another great season of East Coast animation has come and gone and as we do every May for more than 40 years? – I wanted to round up as many of the winners as I could online so this post might act as a kind of catalog of winners as best I could muster online.…
DetailsIn case anyone missed it, ASIFA-East President Dave Levy wrote a very informative article on what ASIFA-East is, the role and relevance of the organization today, and how it can best serve the animation community. Please hop on over to http://animondays.blogspot.com/2011/05/asifa-east.html to read all about it!
Article by Tristian Goik. Surprise! Today’s post is brought to you by the letter B, for the Berkshires, which is a large swath of land that exists beyond Manhattan. It is important to remember that East-coast animation can flourish outside of New York… Anyway if you find yourself at the Normal Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts,…
DetailsASIFA-East opening created by Dan Meth. Thanks to everyone who came out last night for our annual ASIFA-East Animation Festival. We had a great turnout and the films were awesome!!! Congratulations to all the winners!!! BEST IN SHOW Accumulonimbus Andy Kennedy BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM Guard Dog Global Jam Bill Plympton BEST MUSIC VIDEO Dot Dot…
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Tomorrow night the Society of Illustrators is hosting an event supporting New York animation’s own Bill Plympton in his most recent project a biography/art of book titled Independently Animated: Bill Plympton -the life and art of the king of indie animation available from Rizzoli Publications Available on Amazon.com here I had the great pleasure of…
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