The ASIFA-Hollywood Student Animation Festival

The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Educators' Forum presents...
The ASIFA-Hollywood
Student Animation Festival
October 18th, 2008
Admission FREE to the animation community
Woodbury University
School of Business / Fletcher Jones Foundation Theater
7500 Glenoaks Bl
Burbank, CA 91510
(Click for printable map)

Festival Schedule:

• Animation Salon: What Is An Animated Film?
  10am to 12 noon
  Stephen Worth, Director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive presents a screening of animated films that show the diversity of styles and techniques from the past century of animation.


• Portfolio Review
  12pm to 5pm
  Professional reviewers will be on hand in the following areas of expertise: Character Animation, Production Design, Character Design, Story, Storyboards, Color Styling, Animatics, Layout, Effects Animation, Lighting, Rigging and Texturing for CGI. You do not have to have a film in competition to take part in the portfolio reviews.


• Screening of Student Festival Films:
  1pm to 2pm


• State of the Animation Industry Panel:
  2pm to 3pm


• Breaking Into Animation Panel
  3pm to 4pm


• Screening of Student Films
  4pm to 5pm


• Meet the Filmmakers Reception and Party
  Hosted by Creative Talent Network
  5pm to 6pm


• Awards Ceremony and Screening
  6pm to 7:30pm

FESTIVAL SPONSORS
ASIFA Hollywood and the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Educators' Forum would like to thank the following sponsors for their support of this festival...



Woodbury University



DigiCel Flipbook 2D



Autodesk Academic Solutions


Creative Talent Network

FESTIVAL RULES
PLEASE NOTE: THE ENTRY DEADLINE HAS PASSED FOR THE 2008 FESTIVAL. NO MORE ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED. It has been decided that there will be no maximum film length for the 2008 competition. We fully expect to institute a maximum film length starting in 2009.

CATEGORIES AND PRIZES
All Entry Films will be evaluated in the following categories:

Best Visual Storytelling
Award Plaque
$200.00
FlipBook Lite* ($99 Value)
Choice of Maya or 3D Studio Max Educational ($500 Value)
= $799 Total Value of Prize Package

Best Character
Award Plaque
$200.00
FlipBook Lite* ($99 Value)
Choice of Maya or 3D Studio Max Educational ($500 Value)
= $799 Total Value of Prize Package

Best Technical Achievement
Award Plaque
$200.00
FlipBook Lite* ($99 Value)
Choice of Maya or 3D Studio Max Educational ($500 Value)
= $799 Total Value of Prize Package

Judges' Choice
Award Plaque
$500.00
FlipBook Studio* ($419 Value)
Choice of Maya or 3D Studio Max Educational ($500 Value)
Choice of Motion Builder ($295 Value) or Combustion ($100 Value)
= $1,519 or $1714 Total Value of Prize Package

Emile Cohl Award for the Best Animated Short
Award Plaque
$1,000.00
FlipBook Pro* ($799 Value)
Maya, 3D Studio Max, Motion Builder & Combustion Educational ($1395 value)
= $3,194 Total Value of Prize Package

* FlipBook comes in either Windows or OS X Operating Systems

JUDGING
The Judging Committee consists of:

Jorge R. Gutierrez
Creator / Executive Producer. El Tigre

Robin Brigstocke
Director / Storyboard Supervisor, King of the Hill

Floyd Norman
Story Artist / Disney Legend

Tim Johnson
Director, Over the Hedge

Aki Umemoto
Creative Director, Mattel

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
For a film to be eligible for competition, the principal animation in the film must have been completed during the 2007 - 2008 school year. The student filmmaker must have been enrolled in a college or adult level program for at least 6 credit units during the majority of the time in which the principal animation was created (acceptable programs: College, University, For-Profit School, Adult Education Program, adult students from Occupational Program, and Online Programs. All students submitting films into the competition need to be members of ASIFA-Hollywood. Student membership to ASIFA-Hollywood is $30 per year and comes with a large number of other privileges and benefits. Students may join at the time of film submittal.

FEES AND ANIMATION PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
There are no entrance fees for students or schools to submit films to the ASIFA-Hollywood Student Animation Festival. All students submitting films and at lest one school representative need to be members of ASIFA-Hollywood. All films must be submitted through the student's educational program. Each animation program constitutes the first level of evacuation for the festival and must have a designated festival contact person who is a member of ASIFA-Hollywood. Student Membership in ASIFA-Hollywood is $30 per year and General membership in ASIFA-Hollywood is $75 per year. The Festival Contact Person will need to join ASIFA-Hollywood by the May 8th, 2008 film in progress deadline date. Students will need to join ASIFA-Hollywood by the August 29th 2008 film entry deadline.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Each animation department will select and submit the best student films to represent the program. There will be no limit to the number of films that may be submitted from each program for the 2008 festival, but we fully expect that we will have to ration the number of submissions per program in future (possibly as soon as the 2009 festival).

MECHANICAL REQUIREMENTS
10 copies of a Prejudging DVD from each animation program with all of the submitted animation accessible from an opening menu, 1 editing copy of all of the uncompressed files for all of the animations being submitted from each animation program. (DVDs or portable hard drive - hard drives will be returned to schools after the festival)

All submitted Student films must be free of any copyright infringement and each filmmaker must submit copies of release forms for music, voice actors and any other contributor to the film. NOTE: Sample fill-in-the-blank release forms and work-for- hire contracts will be shipped to all animation programs with the call for entire package (Hopefully by the end of February 2008) Filmmakers will be asked to sign a state declaring that they have clear title to all of the elements of their film.

MORE INFO AND CONTACTS
ASIFA-Hollywood Student Animation Festival Press Release

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Educators' Forum Homepage

Email: aef@asifa-hollywood.org

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Educators' Forum Yahoo Group
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The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Educator's Forum

The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Educators' Forum is dedicated to bringing together Southern California animation education professionals for the advancement of the quality of animation education.

PROJECT GOALS
DEFINING THE CORE SKILL SET: Even the accreditation bodies that are judging animation programs do not have a list of skills that should be taught to animation students. Programs going through accreditation have to prove their case by matching skill sets from a mixture of other semi-related programs. It would be of great service to compile a list of what is being taught at all of the animation programs in the area and have that available to all.

SYLLABUS AND TEACHING OUTCOMES: Plans are underway to create a database with lists of student teaching outcome statements that could serve as building blocks for writing syllabi.

INSTRUCTOR DATABASE: It would be a great service to animation educators and animation programs alike to have an online listing of animation teachers' profiles.

STUDENT ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL: Almost all programs demand that students create a short animation as a requirement for graduation. The timing is such that very few of the deadlines for established animation festivals match up with the academic school year. A student animation festival under the umbrella of ASIFA-Hollywood taking place on college campuses would give an affordable venue and could be the precursor to a possible recognition of student work at the annual Annie Awards.

ROTATING TRAINING SEMINARS: Coordination is beginning for a lecture series by teachers and for teachers to travel to different area campuses throughout the year.

ROTATING CLASS LECTURE SERIES: Every school sponsors lectures by industry professionals who come to campus to speak about their career. Encouraging attendance between various programs, we could increase exposure to these events and promote networking between students from different programs.

ACTING FOR ANIMATORS: The goal is to build a list of resources and contacts in the acting community to help with the development of improv games and techniques that apply to the creation of an animation performance.

COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARK: Business law is often overlooked in art programs. The intent is to gather resources and build a knowledge base for artists regarding intellectual property rights.

PRODUCTION SKILLS: The actuarial process of creating animation needs to be taught. Schedules and budgets are the nuts and bolts of the production process, and students need to have the organizational skills needed to track and plan their projects.

UPCOMING MEETINGS AND EVENTS
September 20th, 2008
ASIFA-Hollywood Student Animation Festival Judging Breakfast
(venue to be determined)


October 18th, 2008
ASIFA-Hollywood Student Animation Festival
Admission FREE to the animation community
Woodbury University
School of Business / Fletcher Jones Foundation Theater
7500 Glenoaks Bl
Burbank, CA 91510
(Click for printable map)

Festival Schedule:
Portfolio Review: 10am to 4pm
Treasures of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Screening: 10am to 12 noon
Screening of Student Festival Films: 1pm to 2pm
State of the Animation Industry Panel: 2pm to 3pm
Breaking Into Animation Panel: 3pm to 4pm
Screening of Student Films: 4pm to 5pm
Meet the Filmmakers Party: 5pm to 6pm
Awards Ceremony and Screening: 6pm to 7:30pm

CONTACTS
aef@asifa-hollywood.org

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Educators' Forum Yahoo Group
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Event: Animator Educatior's Forum Film Festival

The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywoods' Animator Educator's Forum is hosting its first Student Animation Film Festival at Woodbury University located on 7500 Glenoaks Blvd. in Burbank, CA 91510 on October 18, 2008 from 10 AM to 7:30 PM. Students enrolled in professional academic programs throughout the United States including NYU Tisch School of the Arts; UCLA; USC; Woodbury University; Loyola Marymount University; CSU Fullerton; Bay and The Art Institute of California-Orange County have submitted short animations. The winners are to be announced at the festival in the following categories: Best Visual Storytelling, Best Character, Best Technical Achievement, Judges' Choice and The Emile Cohl Award for the Best Animated Short.

In addition to the competition portion of the event, a free demo reel and portfolio review will be offered to the public. Students and artists alike are encouraged to bring demo reels in DVD format and/or an organized collection of flat artwork to be critiqued by some of the competition judges and other industry professionals.

Judges for the competition include Jorge R. Gutierrez, Creator and Executive Producer of El Tigre; Robin Brigstocke, Director and Storyboard Supervisor at King of the Hill; Floyd Norman, Disney Legend and master storyman at Pixar, Disney, etc.; Tim Johnson, Director of DreamWorks's Over the Hedge; Aki Umemoto, Pioneer of CGI Commercials and Creative Director at Mattel for 25 years. The awards show and screening of winners will be held at 6 PM in the Fletcher Jones Foundation Auditorium.

Sponsors include DigiCel FlipBook, Creative Talent Network, VISUCATE (Autodesk Authorized Education Value Added Reseller) and Woodbury University. Prizes include generous software packages such as FlipBook, Maya, 3D Studio Max, Motion Builder, and Combustion Educational software in addition to prize money based on the category won.

ASIFA, a French acronym for "Association Internationale du Film D'Animation" was founded by a group of animators in 1957 and chartered by UNESCO in 1960. ASIFA encourages the art of animation and furthers international understanding and goodwill through the medium. Today there are about thirty chapters of ASIFA all over the globe.

ASIFA- Hollywood was established over thirty years ago as a 501(c) (3) California non-profit organization. It is the largest chapter of ASIFA in the world. ASIFA is self-sustaining through membership dues and the proceeds from various projects and events.

For more information about the event visit http://asifa-hollywood.org/ or email aef@asifa-hollywood.org.

PRESS CONTACT: Veronica Esquivel
W: 714.338.1351
C:323.215.9085
vesquivel@aii.edu

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