Anime Rock Opera

This one got a pretty good review in The Guarian (four stars): Inu-oh review – medieval anime rock opera rips Noh theatre a new one

Dreamworks Trainee Program

There is only about a week to apply for these paid traineeships

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Actual Glass Animation

Through BoingBoing, who incorreectly daated this as from 1984, I came across Inspirace (Inspiration) by Karel Zeman, from 1948. Somehow I had never heard of him, Wikipedia describes him as a Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator, best known for directing fantasy films combining live-action footage with animation.Because of his creative use of special effects and animation in his films, he has often been called the "Czech Méliès".

Hamster Christmas!

Dutch commercial for a grocery store. I think you can get the message even if you have no idea what the people are saying.

A completely different take on the Holiday Season was created at Buck:

Indemnity.exe selected for MetroCAF 2021

This year's group animation, Indemnity.exe has been selected for the MetroCAF 2021 festival! MetroCAF is the annual NYC Metropolitan Area College Computer Animation Festival organized by the New York City chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH. Congratulations to the animation students who created the film: Alyssa Cirillo, Mike Gatta, Lauren Haug, Jeremy Kaston, Emily Ronan, and Connor Trapani. Congratulations also to composer Max Adolf, a Music Production student at Monmouth University.

MetroCAF 2021 will be virtual this year. You can view the livestream of the show on Friday, September 24 UPDATE: October 8 at 7:30 PM EDT. The awards for Individual, Small Group, Large Group, and Best of Show will be presented at the end of the screening.

The image on this year's MetroCAF poster was created by our very own Emily Ronan (BFA Animation, 2021)

Student Animation Showcase 2021

This year's group animation, Indemnity.exe, is included in the ASIFA Hollywood Educators Forum Student Animation Showcase, which will premiere this Friday! And that is 7PM PDT.

Senior Show 2021

The site is now open: https://animation.monmouth.edu/2021/

Presentation today at 4 PM: https://www.monmouth.edu/department-of-art-and-design/

Senior Show Brent Pearlman

Due to unforseen circumstances Brent Pearman was not able to finish his senior show last year, but it is now up and can be viewed here: https://animation.monmouth.edu/2020/show/brent-pearlman/

Reel Maker 2020

DEMO REEL 2020 // Mònica Eggert from Mònica Eggert on Vimeo.

Via Cartoonbrew - Link to Pepe School Land

Animation Reels

    Hey everyone, here are two really good demo reels that I found online. The first one is an Animation reel that features primarily 3D work. It is around 2 minutes and 30 seconds long and I really enjoy the different models that he showcases throughout his work. He also handles the audio throughout the reel very well because the different clips he shows have their own sound in them so you do not want the music to overpower the original audio in the video. The second reel is by Joanna Davidovich. She has a variety of professional work assembled from her freelance jobs over years and also some of her own self work. She references below a shot list with details of what she did for each clip and gives thanks to the different studios that allowed her to us the work she did. The thing I enjoyed the most about both of these reels was the variety of clips and how it was displayed. The different styles allow the viewer to see the artist is not just one dimensional and can express their work in multiple mediums.

First Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYGjnuK8nYo

Second Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsP8_H_65yk

Animation Reels!

 Heyya, everyone, Alyssa here to bring you a couple of demo reels that I personally found interesting to look at. I found these all from an animation subreddit of people ranging from students to professionals sharing their works through demo reels and other methods. Here they are:

Owen Smith - First Person Animation Reel 2020

This one is from Owen Smith, and this one primarily focuses on his capabilities with first-person animation. I have plenty of nice things to say about it, especially in the presentation. A lot of times with these styles of animations, it can get monotonous real fast when you're just watching various guns being shot over and over again. However, he keeps it dynamic by changing up the background by making it animated and changing color per gun as well (a demo reel I decided not to show here had the problem of having a monotonous background in these demonstrations). The main critique I have, however, is the use of copyrighted material. Although he credits it all at the end, he uses a Rolling Stones song and various sound effects from other video games for the gun sounds. I also do not know what those projects were for initially. It would have also been nice to indicate which of the model credits go where, and it can be done in the description of the video. Overall, way to make what could be a monotonous specialty to display more interesting!

Sarah Abbott Demo Reel Fall 2020

This next one is from Sarah Abbott, a 2D animator. She really does a good job with music choice, prioritizing her best work in the front, and giving a brief variety with her projects. There is a perfect amount of time spent on each animation, and they each have a purpose and reason for fitting on the reel. My critiques for this one I'll keep brief: in the section with the dialogue, one of the character's lines get awkwardly cut off mid-speech and it's a little jarring on an editing standpoint. She could have cut it off before that character started the line. In addition, I cannot tell what role she had in these animations, whether she did some aspects of it or all of it. Those can be recorded in the description as well, so it can be easier to tell from someone looking at this in an internship standpoint what she did. Either way, I found this animation to be relatively smooth (with the exception of that one editing mistake) and displays the variety of what she can do.

David Han - Character Animation Reel

Time for a professional one to end it off. This is David Han, a professional character animator who has worked on numerous studio films, and won an Annie for his character animation work on Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse. I thought it would be intriguing to include an accomplished professional on this list to see how a professional does a character reel. It's clear that he has a specific style in his character animations, with a lot of the scenes in display being action-heavy scenes with a few more toned down scenes in the mix (such as the segments with dialogue from Storks and Into the Spiderverse). I also found it interesting that he included play-blasts as well to demonstrate an aspect of his process un-rendered. In the description, he says that this is a "for funsies" version of a demo reel, but the way that the content is included and the fun framing device for the reel can serve as inspiration. Again, music is from a video game so we need to make sure to avoid those styles of music for our personal projects. Either way, this is definitely one to look at. 

That's all I have for now, and I'm looking forward to putting together mine for what's to come!

Alyssa out!

Home, Closed (2020)

My latest animation is now available online:

Home, Closed from Wobbe on Vimeo.

For Early Birds All Animators on Halloween

If you prefer to attend as a Zombie, you could stay up for it, but the *free* 6TH ANNUAL CAREERS IN FILM SUMMIT event organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has an interesting session at 10 AM on October 31: Halloween and Horror Genre Edition. The first section that day is about animation!

That is 10am Pacific, thus 7am Eastern.... Silly me: That is of course 1PM Eastern!

RSVP is required, open to all students.

Simplicity Rules

Acid

This animation is playing at the Ottowa International Animation Festival.

Rick and Morty Exquisite Corpse from Matt Taylor on Vimeo.

Animation Magazine

Don't tell anyone, but if you use promo code MDSIG20 you can get a one year free digital subscription to Animation Magazine

Forbes: "Animation Is Hotter Than Ever"

The animation industry is not in such a bad place right now, according to Forbes:

• With Live Action On Lockdown, Animation Is Hotter Than Ever

This image of Chris Prynoski, Founder and President of Titmouse is posted with the article. I hope he is not that creepy IRL.

Senior Show Animation

Did I really not post this yet?

Virtual Senior Show!

Yotube: Animation Reel

Yotube’s Animation Reel 2016

I enjoyed this reel because it consisted of a lot of unique styles and different types of animation, such as character animation and motion graphics. The animations were all visually appealing and kept my interest. The music is extremely upbeat and lively, but in a way that is not distracting from the reel. The transitions seemed to be smooth and everything was pretty high quality. This reel could possibly be improved with the addition of labels that tell the titles of the projects or the names of any software used to create them.

Loving Vincent

This is not about Dimattio, but Van Gogh. Loving Vincent is a feature length animation created with oil paintings. Free in the Pollak Theatre on February 27 at 7:30pm

Image created using deepdreamgenerator