ASIFA-Hollywood: The International Animated Film Society
Saturday, September 17, 2005
Spent the day animating. Was fun to back working. Tomorrow it is off to the Sherman Oaks for the NFFC screening. Monday it is History of Animation at Cal State Fullerton, and then finals week as Brooks College. Then 2 weeks off from that school so maybe I can get some more animation done.
Friday, September 16, 2005
Bright Green Pleasure Machine:
Good news for everybody in animation, according to AWN`s FLASH Drew Carey`s Green Screen Show has been picked up. In the first run of this live action/animation show everybody I knew and every boutique studio in town was steaming away under a mountain of animation. Here is hoping that Comedy Central is talking new shows not just reruns. I am thinking very strongly about putting Drew Carey up for animation sainthood. I know a lot of people who would vote for him.
Good news for everybody in animation, according to AWN`s FLASH Drew Carey`s Green Screen Show has been picked up. In the first run of this live action/animation show everybody I knew and every boutique studio in town was steaming away under a mountain of animation. Here is hoping that Comedy Central is talking new shows not just reruns. I am thinking very strongly about putting Drew Carey up for animation sainthood. I know a lot of people who would vote for him.
21. COMEDY CENTRAL PICKS UP DREW CAREY`S GREEN SCREEN SHOW. Comedy Central has acquired DREW CAREY`S GREEN SCREEN SHOW, which will premiere Sept. 26, 2005, at 10:00 pm. The live-action/animated improv comedy first aired on The WB last fall.
To promote the broadcast, Carey and the stars of DREW CAREY`S GREEN SCREEN
SHOW will be featured in a special, DREW CAREY FRIDAY NIGHT STAND-UP, Sept. 16 from 8:30-11:00 pm. This will include specials from D.L. Hughley, Godfrey, Keith Robinson and Mark Curry, with Carey filling the audience in on his upcoming stand-up tour and details about his GREEN SCREEN SHOW.
The concept calls for the cast to act out quirky ideas suggested by the audience in front of a greenscreen. Animation directors Acme Filmworks recruited from around the world expand upon audience suggestions, inserting the actors into the skit in an animated version of the theme or environment pitched by the audience. Sometimes the actors are morphed and animated or later with vfx. The live-action and animation talents combine to create an actual improvised show that brings to life the details going on in their vivid imaginations.
For animation fans it offers a vast array of styles from 3D to traditional, stop-motion to cutout, anime to Disney.
Carey, who created the show, exec produced it with Ron Diamond, CEO of animation provider Acme Filmworks. The show is a production of Production Group and Michigan J.
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Early Disney Screening:
Spent the day editing my National Fantasy Fan Club screening for Sunday. (look below for directions and details) It took on an interesting twist.
It turned into a who stole what from who type of theme. Some Paul Terry to Alice comparisons, a Laugh-O-Gram to Alice comparison, a look at Peg Leg Pete as seen in an Alice and as ripped off in a Bosko, a Mickey to Foxy, and Iwerks/Disney Oswald to Walter Lantz Oswald. Also Look at the true Alice as played by Virginia Davis and the pretenders (Shirley and Gay).
Some times these things just take on a mind of their own when I am going through the stacks looking for cartoons. They just seem to fall together in a certain way and who am I to fight against the cartoon fates.
Spent the day editing my National Fantasy Fan Club screening for Sunday. (look below for directions and details) It took on an interesting twist.
It turned into a who stole what from who type of theme. Some Paul Terry to Alice comparisons, a Laugh-O-Gram to Alice comparison, a look at Peg Leg Pete as seen in an Alice and as ripped off in a Bosko, a Mickey to Foxy, and Iwerks/Disney Oswald to Walter Lantz Oswald. Also Look at the true Alice as played by Virginia Davis and the pretenders (Shirley and Gay).
Some times these things just take on a mind of their own when I am going through the stacks looking for cartoons. They just seem to fall together in a certain way and who am I to fight against the cartoon fates.
This just in from Pam Thompson. Visual Effects Society event part II
VES Animation Event Part 2: The Nuts and Bolts of Animation Producing - October 6th at Warner Bros.
So, now that you have enjoyed the VES - Artistic Pitching for Animation seminar, why not come and join us for our next installment?
You`ve pitched it, You`ve sold it Now it`s time to produce it!
In this seminar, geared towards current animation producers and VFX Producers, we will cover what you really need to know in order to producer 3D animation as opposed to live action VFX. We will present an overview of animation budgeting, along with a chart of accounts. Our panel will discuss the various labor issues as well as cover costs averages in each category.
Join us for this not to be missed event
T HURSDAY - OCT. 6, 2005
7:00PM - 10:00PM
Warner Bros. Screening Room #12
4000 Warner Blvd. Gate 4
Burbank , CA 91522
Cost - $15 VES members and ASIFA members/ $20 non-members
Remember, seating is limited, so buy your tickets early. Call 310/822-9181 to order your tickets now!
VES Animation Event Part 2: The Nuts and Bolts of Animation Producing - October 6th at Warner Bros.
So, now that you have enjoyed the VES - Artistic Pitching for Animation seminar, why not come and join us for our next installment?
You`ve pitched it, You`ve sold it Now it`s time to produce it!
In this seminar, geared towards current animation producers and VFX Producers, we will cover what you really need to know in order to producer 3D animation as opposed to live action VFX. We will present an overview of animation budgeting, along with a chart of accounts. Our panel will discuss the various labor issues as well as cover costs averages in each category.
Our Panelists are:
- John Walker - Producer - The Incredibles - Pixar
- Amy Jupiter - Co- Producer - Open Season (animated feature) - Sony Pictures Imageworks
- Ellen Coss - Associate Producer - Over the Hedge (animated feature) - DreamWorks
- Carolyn Soper - Vice President, Production - Disney Animation
Join us for this not to be missed event
T HURSDAY - OCT. 6, 2005
7:00PM - 10:00PM
Warner Bros. Screening Room #12
4000 Warner Blvd. Gate 4
Burbank , CA 91522
Cost - $15 VES members and ASIFA members/ $20 non-members
Remember, seating is limited, so buy your tickets early. Call 310/822-9181 to order your tickets now!
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Back in the Saddle Again:
Saddle up and ride the Wild Software. I am back animating. Let me clarify that. I managed to save enough of the images that were clobbered by my friendly neighborhood virus attack that I could start to tweak the images and get back to building the scene I was working on before I was so rudely intercoused. I spent part of this last Sunday working on my animation and it feels good to be back.
Saddle up and ride the Wild Software. I am back animating. Let me clarify that. I managed to save enough of the images that were clobbered by my friendly neighborhood virus attack that I could start to tweak the images and get back to building the scene I was working on before I was so rudely intercoused. I spent part of this last Sunday working on my animation and it feels good to be back.
Gaming Annie Announced:
People in my crowd tend to talk about TV and feature animation as if it is ANIMATION, all of animation. In truth, TV and feature animation only account for about 20% of ANIMATION. Motion studies, education, commercials, court reenactment, medical, business presentation, and gaming folk. Let us not forget gaming.
For the last couple of years I have been one of the people on the ASIFA board pushing for a stand along gaming Annie. Last year we had gaming animation in with Short Animation. It didn`t really fit there and I think we knew it at the time but there were real reasons why we had to do it that way. This year I am very proud to announce that Gaming animation has its own Annie category.
If you work in gaming, CGI or are otherwise attached to the gaming world we are (I Am) looking for judges for this year`s gaming category. We get together and look at all the gaming animation submitted. You decide on the top gaming animations for the year and then you get really good seats at the Annies as a thank you.
If you work at a gaming company and you have some killer cut screens in your current release, hey send then on out. We are looking for the best of the best sir, and we plan on adding the honors.
People in my crowd tend to talk about TV and feature animation as if it is ANIMATION, all of animation. In truth, TV and feature animation only account for about 20% of ANIMATION. Motion studies, education, commercials, court reenactment, medical, business presentation, and gaming folk. Let us not forget gaming.
For the last couple of years I have been one of the people on the ASIFA board pushing for a stand along gaming Annie. Last year we had gaming animation in with Short Animation. It didn`t really fit there and I think we knew it at the time but there were real reasons why we had to do it that way. This year I am very proud to announce that Gaming animation has its own Annie category.
Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game
An Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game shall be awarded to an animated video game in recognition of creative excellence in the art of animation.
Eligibility: To be eligible to receive this award an animated video game must have originally been commercially released between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2005.
Mechanical Requirements for Entry: A VHS videocassette or DVD with clips from the production, not exceeding five minutes in length. Be sure to label the cassette and cassette box or DVD and DVD case as indicated under Submission and Mechanical Requirements. Also please include a copy of the entry form with the material submitted.
If you work in gaming, CGI or are otherwise attached to the gaming world we are (I Am) looking for judges for this year`s gaming category. We get together and look at all the gaming animation submitted. You decide on the top gaming animations for the year and then you get really good seats at the Annies as a thank you.
If you work at a gaming company and you have some killer cut screens in your current release, hey send then on out. We are looking for the best of the best sir, and we plan on adding the honors.
Monday, September 12, 2005
I got this from Tom Sito who got it from Dori Littell-Herrick at Woodbury.
Please circulate:
Friends and fellow artists,
I received this plea below for help at Woodbury University through the offices of NASAD The National Association of Schools of Art and Design, an organization that accredits art. It is from the School of Art at Louisiana State University, design programs.
I was very moved to hear, among all the calls for water, for food, for emergency supplies, a call for sketchbooks and markers, crayons and paint, for the artists, the art students, and the young people of the Louisiana area, who need a way to put their grief and fear and loss down in the form of art.
I'm asking how the animation community can come together and help, and asking you to pass this up the line at the studios to ask if they can help.We all know that loads of paper, pencils, markers and other art supplies sit around in studios, unused, only to get thrown away. How many of us have pulled supplies out of the trash can and taken them home. Now there is a place in need of all the supplies we can muster.
Please respond if you can. If there is a way we can come together to create a larger response, let's talk about it. Meanwhile, any aid you can send to Mr. Baron at LSU Department of Art would be great.
Thanks,
Dori Littell-Herrick
Chair, Animation
Woodbury University
Please circulate:
Friends and fellow artists,
I received this plea below for help at Woodbury University through the offices of NASAD The National Association of Schools of Art and Design, an organization that accredits art. It is from the School of Art at Louisiana State University, design programs.
I was very moved to hear, among all the calls for water, for food, for emergency supplies, a call for sketchbooks and markers, crayons and paint, for the artists, the art students, and the young people of the Louisiana area, who need a way to put their grief and fear and loss down in the form of art.
I'm asking how the animation community can come together and help, and asking you to pass this up the line at the studios to ask if they can help.We all know that loads of paper, pencils, markers and other art supplies sit around in studios, unused, only to get thrown away. How many of us have pulled supplies out of the trash can and taken them home. Now there is a place in need of all the supplies we can muster.
Please respond if you can. If there is a way we can come together to create a larger response, let's talk about it. Meanwhile, any aid you can send to Mr. Baron at LSU Department of Art would be great.
Thanks,
Dori Littell-Herrick
Chair, Animation
Woodbury University
Dear Colleagues,
This is the only expedient way to contact you that I can think of and am making the following appeal.
I am asking for your help in the ongoing efforts to aid the people of New Orleans and Louisiana. Here in Baton Rouge we have a great need for art supplies for the evacuees who are being housed and educated in the city and at LSU. We have four cohorts in desperate need of supplies: children and adults now living in shelters throughout the Baton Rouge area, children who are entering the public schools who budgets are currently overtaxed and overwhelmed by the doubling of enrolled
students, college art students from New Orleans now enrolled at the School of Art at LSU, and professional artists who have lost not only their supplies but their life's work. The East Baton Rouge Parish School System is a separate entity and one that I cannot speak for, but the others are those that I can directly reach in this effort. Any art supplies, especially drawing pads, sketchbooks, pencils, markers,watercolor sets, crayons, charcoal, printmaking supplies, sculpture tools, papers, rulers, t-squares, and anything else that is not toxic or dangerous (e.g. oil paint chemicals) is sought to give these souls ways to express their feelings and impressions of this unmatched national
tragedy as well as diversion and solace in their uprooted circumstances. Of course, any gift in kind to the University has tax benefits, but your heartfelt willingness to help us in this time of abject need will not go unappreciated or publicly unnoticed. I cannot possibly explain to you the depth of hardship that now exists and the necessity for life-sustaining support. Art is such a powerful
means of achieving those true expressions of loss, fear, confusion, grief, and, most importantly, hope, which words alone cannot convey. No donation would be too small.
Please, please help us by providing what you can. This is only one form of positive intervention, coming quickly from the entire country, that will enable the people and artists of the greater New Orleans area and Mississippi to sustain any possibility of a future whatsoever. All donations can
be sent directly to the School of Art office at the address below.
Respectfully,
Stuart Baron
Director, School of Art
Louisiana State University
123 Art Building
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
70803
225.578.5414 (office)
225.578.5424 (fax)
baron@lsu.edu
Los Angeles Chapter of the National Fantasy Fan Club for Disneyana Enthusiasts and Collectors has invited me to do a screening and talk on the early days of Disney.
They meets at:
1:00 p.m.
Sunday Sept. 18th
in the community room of Westfield Shoppingtown Fashion Square,
13750 Riverside Drive
Sherman Oaks.
Westfield Shoppingtown Fashion Square is located north of the 101 Freeway, off the Woodman Avenue exit;
The community room is the small building at the back of the parking lot behind Ross Dress for Less at the southwest corner of Riverside Drive and Woodman Avenue.
Non-members are welcome to attend.
For more information or directions, please visit their website, http://nffc-la.org , or e-mail Paul Schnebelen at president@nffc-la.org
I will be showing some Laugh-O-Grams, Some Alice in Carttonlands, and Iwerks/Dinsey and Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons
Report of Archives Sort:
Seven people helped for at least part of today`s 6-hour session. Our main focus was a box-level sort (i.e., if we saw a whole box that was mostly not worth saving, out it went) and compacting multiple loosely packed boxes into one.
The box-level sort mostly resulted in about 10 boxes of old Annie VHS tapes that were just clips, and hence not worth saving (VHS doesn`t digitize well). We were particularly successful with compacting; I don`t have an exact count, but I`d estimate we had about 75-100 empty boxes when we were done. That`s mostly because of the WAC entries, which were very inefficiently stored. Some boxes of magazines also had a great deal of empty space which we were able to fill. At a future date, we`ll take the time to do a secondary sort on these magazine boxes, reducing most of them to clip files.
The goal was to clear out the front portion of the Animation Center so that it could be used for its intended purpose, and that is indeed done now.
I really wish I had kept notes on some of the bizarre titles we saw; if the shorts we sifted through are half as interesting as their titles, we definitely have to have a screening some day. Another treasure I want to spend more time with is a box of the Frostbite Falls Gazette, a newsletter/fanzine for lovers of Moose and Squirrel. We also ran across some neat publicity photos for Beany and Cecil, including a photo of Bob Clampett at the drawing board, and another drawing of the main characters (even Dishonest John) all wearing mouse-ear hats for some reason.
The next step is to load the boxes we sorted today into a truck, along with the Spumco archives currently at the Victory building, and put them into a temporary storage space. This will give us room to begin organizing the back room into something useful instead of a disorganized heap of stuff. Look for a call-for-volunteers for this presently; probably won`t take more than a couple hours, since all the boxes are now very near the back door.
Thanks to today`s helpers: Sharon Eisenberg, Jason Jones, Eric Graf, Paul Abramson, Linda Lee, Dave-who-wouldn`t-give-his-last-name, and I think one more whose name I didn`t get. And of course Steve Worth, who came by at the end to provide the big picture to everyone.
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Jon Reeves
The Internet Movie Database http://imdb.com "My God! It`s full of stars!"
Seven people helped for at least part of today`s 6-hour session. Our main focus was a box-level sort (i.e., if we saw a whole box that was mostly not worth saving, out it went) and compacting multiple loosely packed boxes into one.
The box-level sort mostly resulted in about 10 boxes of old Annie VHS tapes that were just clips, and hence not worth saving (VHS doesn`t digitize well). We were particularly successful with compacting; I don`t have an exact count, but I`d estimate we had about 75-100 empty boxes when we were done. That`s mostly because of the WAC entries, which were very inefficiently stored. Some boxes of magazines also had a great deal of empty space which we were able to fill. At a future date, we`ll take the time to do a secondary sort on these magazine boxes, reducing most of them to clip files.
The goal was to clear out the front portion of the Animation Center so that it could be used for its intended purpose, and that is indeed done now.
I really wish I had kept notes on some of the bizarre titles we saw; if the shorts we sifted through are half as interesting as their titles, we definitely have to have a screening some day. Another treasure I want to spend more time with is a box of the Frostbite Falls Gazette, a newsletter/fanzine for lovers of Moose and Squirrel. We also ran across some neat publicity photos for Beany and Cecil, including a photo of Bob Clampett at the drawing board, and another drawing of the main characters (even Dishonest John) all wearing mouse-ear hats for some reason.
The next step is to load the boxes we sorted today into a truck, along with the Spumco archives currently at the Victory building, and put them into a temporary storage space. This will give us room to begin organizing the back room into something useful instead of a disorganized heap of stuff. Look for a call-for-volunteers for this presently; probably won`t take more than a couple hours, since all the boxes are now very near the back door.
Thanks to today`s helpers: Sharon Eisenberg, Jason Jones, Eric Graf, Paul Abramson, Linda Lee, Dave-who-wouldn`t-give-his-last-name, and I think one more whose name I didn`t get. And of course Steve Worth, who came by at the end to provide the big picture to everyone.
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Jon Reeves
The Internet Movie Database http://imdb.com "My God! It`s full of stars!"
