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Save the Date!

Second Annual ASIFA-SF Spring Show  Sunday, June 23, 1:30pm There are no forms to fill out and no entry fee.  Just send us a DVD or bring it the day of the show. Please limit your entry to less than … Continue reading

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Films? In Berkeley?? Action!!!

BFF grant applications available For those of you who have lived or worked in Berkeley, Richmond, Emeryville, Albany or El Cerrito for at least 1 year, and have a short film in the works, you may be very interested to learn … Continue reading

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Animated Performances at the New Exploratorium

The opening of the new Exploratorium will have two showcases of interest to animation fans.  Obscura Digital will be projecting science related and abstract images on the face of the new museum at Pier 15, this is free to watch, it should begin 8:30 or … Continue reading

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Robot Chicken Invades WDFM

Fans of the stop-motion animated comedy television series, Robot Chicken should cross the road to the Walt Disney Family Museum.  They will be hosting the crew of Stoopid Buddy Stoodios for a panel discussion about the making of the series on Saturday, April … Continue reading

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Disney Museum Educator Day

On April 20 the Walt Disney Family Museum will be hosting their first annual Educators Day event with free admission to the Museum and special activities for any teacher with an ID.  In the afternoon, SJSU Professor Alejandro Garcia, physics consultant at DreamWorks Animation … Continue reading

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Tom Sito at Cartoon Art Museum

The talented and endlessly fascinating Tom Sito (Ok, now do a get a free book, Tom?) will be at the Cartoon Art Museum on May 7.  Tom has just finished a book chronicling computer animation and it is sure to be enlightening.  He has worked on a wide variety … Continue reading

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Careers In Animation 2013

Save the date for our Annual Event – Sunday, April 7, 1:00pm ASIFA-SF and San Francisco State University’s Animation Program invite you to our annual Careers in Animation panel discussion. Come learn from people with experience in stop-motion, 2D and 3D … Continue reading

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Creepy Cartoons – The Dark Side of Animation

An interesting collection of oddball cartoons will be shown this Friday at, appropriately enough, Oddball film in San Francisco. Cartoons are from the 1930′s to the 1970′s. Creepy Cartoons – The Dark Side of Animation (Thanks to G man for alerting me to … Continue reading

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The Bray Animation Project

Thanks to the folks at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival for pointing out this site. Historian Thomas J. Stathes has some great information up on the history of the Bray Studios and some of their animation work during the … Continue reading

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Run to Cartoon Art Museum

  The ParaNorman show at the Cartoon Art Museum has been there for some time now, but until yesterday I didn’t know how impressive it was.  They have some full size sets as well as several of the main character puppets and along the wall is lots of production art. … Continue reading

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