2023 Reel

MetroCAF 2022: Thursday, November 3!

MetroCAF 2022 will premiere this Thursday at 7:30 PM Eastern. This is an opportunity to see the best student animations created in the NYC Metro Area. The show will be virtual at https://metrocaf.org/metrocaf/2022/show/

ASIFA Hollywood Showcase 2022

I just posted this on our Animation site: Student Animation Showcase 2022

2022 Reel

Monmouth University Animation Reel 2022 from Monmouth University Animation on Vimeo.

Bring Your Own Animation

Posting this rather late, but this evening there will be a BYOA, the event I talked about in class.

All the details are on the NYC ACm SIGGRAPH page. You do not need to present to participate, and it is still virtual (on Zoom)

New NFB Treasures

The National Film Board of Canada has been producing many great animations for decades. This one is part documentary, part animation, maybe visual poetry mixed in?

The Storm, Monica Kidd, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

There is more where that came from: https://www.nfb.ca/animation/

Watch Glass Animation

The 7th Edition Online of the Glas Animation Festival is still available to wacth on line. It runs through April 30: All Programs

The 49th Annie Awards Ceremony

The awards screening was live and free online, Saturday, March 12, at 7pm PST, but can still be viewed: https://annieawards.org/watch-it-live

The Annie Awards are awarded annually by ASIFA Hollywood

Paint on Walls Animation

And nt just the walls, all srufaces in the room are fair game. I had seen this one before, but enjoyed it again when it was redently posted to Boing Boing
 

 
Now you might think that was a lot of work. There is more where that came from: blublu.org. The above is actually just a small part of this much longer animation:
 

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.

Cineamazônia 17ª Edição

The site and festival are in Portugeze, but this festival is going on now, and it is on-liine and free!

Here is the program

2020 ASIFAC Animation Festival and Conference

The program for this festival, organized by ASIFA-South International Animation Society, looks very promising, with workshops that are worth checking out. And I would say that even if they were not showing two of my stop motion animations!

It takes place on-line (on eventive.com) and costs only $5 for an all access pass.

More info on the ASIFA South website.

2020 Reel

Monmouth University Animation Reel 2020 from Monmouth University Animation on Vimeo.

Class of 2020 Animation Virtual Showcase

Since so many in person senior shows were cancelled, the ASIFA Educators Forum organized a virtual showcase, which premieres this Thursday at 7PM EDT. It included the trailer for our own "Detention into Another Dimension"

• http://animationeducatorsforum.org/

Kaboom on-line

The Kaboom Animation Festival is the successor to two other Dutch animation festivals: Holland Animation Film Festival and KliK!

Like many other festivals, they have moved on-line, and team members have been posting their favorite animations to Vimeo, including some hard to find gems!

• These are a few of Maarten’s favorite films
• Dario’s favorite films
• Luuk takes a trip down memory lane with his fav films
• Titillating Treasures by Tünde

Senior Show Animation

Did I really not post this yet?

Virtual Senior Show!

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

The Making of ‘Purl’ with Director Kristen Lester

Join Women in Animation New York Chapter and NYC ACM SIGGRAPH in a presentation by the director of the PIXAR SparkShort PURL. Tomorrow (Tuesday), 7PM at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway (1871 Broadway, at 62nd Street)

Reserve free tickets here

Another Sparkshort: Kitbull

Pixar released another Sparkshort:

More info about this series

SIGGRAPH 2018 ET in NYC

On Wednesday, November 14, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH will be hosting a very special screening of the SIGGRAPH 2018 Computer Animation Festival Traveling Show, presented by Mikki Rose, the SIGGRAPH 2019 Conference Chair!

The screening will start at 7:00PM at FIT's Haft Auditorium.

More info: http://nyc.siggraph.org/events/S2018-CAF-Screening