EB Indie Festival

 Here is a chance to show your animations in New Jersey. Opening for submissions this Sunday!

From Filmfreeway:

The East Brunswick Independent Film Festival aims to encourage and showcase emerging filmmakers. Our goal is to provide a professional and educational space for young filmmakers to have the opportunity to connect and grow with one another. EB Indie is seeking independent student works from a variety of genres that explores new perspectives.

Students and new filmmakers are encouraged to submit their work.

Submit here 

TAG Portfolio Review Day

The Animation Guild (TAG) will be hosting a free online Portfolio Review Day on Sunday, July 16th 2023 from 1PM-5PM PST. This event is for anyone wanting to get their portfolios reviewed, including current and recently graduated students. All reviews will be held on video/voice chat through a Discord server set up for the event.

People can sign up here: https://airtable.com/shrU2Qg7zA1hJVJBf

Submit to the Monmouth Review!

Deadline December 14 - Submit through eCampus

Trip to the Met

Check out this opportunity to visit the Metropolitan Museum in New York City

Will there be a wave of blue at the Met?

Images generated by Stability Diffusion

The Woods @ MU

I am excited to bring two multi media artists to campus late November, the event has just been posted on the University's website

ArtNOW: The Woods – A mixed-reality, two-player cooperative game

Bill Plymton looking for Interns

Bill Plymton is looking for a few good interns to help us finish the production of "Slide". If you're in college and interested, please give us a shout. See details below.

Via Twitter

Dreamworks Trainee Program

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

Apply here!

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)

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

Art and Design Career Day and Networking Event

This Thursday @ 3PM on Zoom, look for the link in your email or on eCampus!

GLAS 2022 Portfolio Reviews & More

Glass Animation festival has some free events you can sign up for:

Looking for your next gig to be a director, starboard artist, character designer or other animation professional and interested in having some of the industry’s top recruiters take a peek at your work? Please take a moment to fill out this form and we’ll get your portfolios in front of their eyes. No matter what stage you are in your career, all portfolio submissions are welcome. Please note that call backs are not guaranteed. LINK TO FILL OUT FORM HERE

You’ve been working hard on your portfolio and you’re dying to work in the animation industry. You want to be a storyboard artist, a background designer, concept artist, animator, layout artist, but don’t know where to start. How do I know what to put in my portfolio? Is it better to be a generalist or a specialist? What are recruiters looking for? This panel with some of the industry’s top recruiters will answer all your questions and provide insights into getting the gig you’ve been dreaming about. Panelists Brooke Keesling (Bento Box Entertainment) Melanie Young (Nickelodeon) Lou Bones (Psyop) Patty Willert (Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios) Moderated by: Terrence Masson (SVA) FREE FOR EVERYONE Click HERE to register!

You’ve been working so hard on this new idea. You can tell that this is the one. You’ve never been more excited. Now, you just have to pitch it. Pitching can often be a confusing process for filmmakers. Who do you pitch to? Is this idea appropriate for TV or would it work better as a short film? Is the network looking for work in this genre? I hear Europe has funding for shorts, can I get in on that? I wish someone could give me a straightforward answer! Have no fear, this panel will elucidate the many facets of putting together the perfect pitch. In this conversation, a range of executives, talent managers, and producers will go in-depth on the ins and outs of pitching across the spectrum: from TV series to independent short films. Panelists Jayro Giron ((Director of Series, Warner Bros. Animation) ) Lou Bones (Creative Talent Director, Psyop) Meghan Bradley (Director of Development at Cartoon Network Studios) Jason McConnell (Vice President of Animation Development for Nickelodeon & Paramount Animation) Moderated by: Jeanette Jeanenne (GLAS) Click HERE to register.

Netflix Animation Event on Writing

Netflix Animation will be hosted its second Virtual Speaker Series, focused on all things writing

The Virtual Speaker Series: Writing Edition will be held online from Feb 2 - 4, 2021

More info and registration

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.

MetroCAF 2020 Tomorrow!

This is your chance to see the best computer animations created last year by students in our area, and this year it is free and you do not need to come into the city.

MetroCAF 2020 will premiere this Thursday at 7:30 PM as an on-line presentation at https://metrocaf.org/metrocaf/2020/show/

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.

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.

SIGGRAPH Resume and Reel Review

As you might have heard, the SIGGRAPH conference this year is going virtual

SIGGRAPH Student Services (S3) is holding their Resume and Reel Review (R3) on-line. You can take advantage of this opportunity to get professional feedback:

• S3R3 Registration

SIGGRAPH 2020 SV Applications Due February 11

via GIPHY

This year's SIGGRAPH conference offers a unique opportunity as it takes place on the east coast, for the first time since 2006. You can be part of it as a student volunteer but need to get your application in next Tuesday. A blog post was just posted on the SIGGRAPH blog: 12 Tips to Master Your Essay Submission for the SIGGRAPH 2020 Student Volunteer Program