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Made From Scratch

animator — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:42:54 +0000

Call for Submissions  : STOP & GO

New animated works are being sought for a touring screening. Animations using stop-motion techniques with the subject matter of gardens, food play, kitchens as laboratories, cooking or crafting will all be considered.

STOP & GO is a program of innovative stop-motion animations by contemporary visual artists and filmmakers that has been touring and screening internationally since 2008. The program showcases animations that use stop-motion to explore visual language, tell stories and make poignant social commentaries.

Submission deadline: Friday, November 15, 2013

For further information on how to submit work, please visit their website.

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You’re Invited!

animator — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:45:33 +0000

Come To Animation Finals!

4:00pm May 17, San Francisco State University

Join us this Friday at 4:00 as the SFSU Animation Society presents the 2013 Animation Finals! San Francisco State’s best Animators will present the years best work from the undergraduate animation program here on campus. We will get started at 4:00 pm in the Coppola theater (Fine Arts bldg room 101) this Friday and have a reception in the Animation Lab afterwards (FA 325). All students, faculty, alumni, and anyone else interested are welcome. Hope to see you there!

- courtesy the SFSU Animation Society!

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Save the Date!

animator — Mon, 06 May 2013 17:13:14 +0000

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 10 minutes so all works submitted can be shown. We will show all works on DVD. If you are thinking about entering a film, let us know before May 22 and your name and film title will be on the flyer listing expected contestants. You do not have to be an ASIFA member or even live in Northern California to enter, but you are invited to become a member (details here) and we hope you can be present to enjoy the applause.

Mail work in advance to: ASIFA-SF, 478 Frederick, SF, CA 94117

The Show will take place at the Randall Museum Theatre
Admission is free, public invited, lots of free parking

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Films? In Berkeley?? Action!!!

animator — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:33:52 +0000

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 that the Berkeley Film Foundation has an annual grant program for local filmmakers. Funded by the City of Berkeley, Wareham Development, and the Saul Zaentz Company, its mission is “to nurture, sustain and preserve the thriving Berkeley film community while attracting the next generation of filmmaker.”

Since its inception, the Berkeley FILM Foundation has awarded $550,000 to projects in the production, post-production and distribution stages. There are a lot of worthy applicants, but why shouldn’t you be one of them? You can read the applications here (but hurry, submissions are due May 31, and grants are given mid-summer.)

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Animated Performances at the New Exploratorium

Segaltoons — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:12:56 +0000

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 9:00 pm. Outdoors on the northwest side of the building (on the left as you face the building) and all the way back, will be a fascinating performance by world-renowned animator and performance artist Miwa Matreyek. She performs as a silhouette behind and in front of her personal animations at 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. She is able to precisely interact with her projected environment in very clever ways. Museum admission is required to see this. (last night it was not a full house, so don’t let that get in the way of your coming out to see this). Oh, by the way, the Exploratorium is one of the San Francisco treasures, allow lots of time to play there.

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Robot Chicken Invades WDFM

Segaltoons — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:22:26 +0000

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 27, at 2:00pm in the Theater. Tickets are $20 and are available at the museum web site.

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Disney Museum Educator Day

Segaltoons — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:12:31 +0000

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 SKG and 2012-2013 Outstanding Professor, will deliver a presentation titled, The Physics of Animation. This fun, inspiring program is free and open to the public! For more information, click on the following link: http://www.waltdisney.org/educator-day .

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Tom Sito at Cartoon Art Museum

Segaltoons — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:21:13 +0000

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 of animation projects, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Richard Williams’ unfinished masterpiece The Thief and the Cobbler; he was a director of animation on Osmosis Jones, and too many other cool credits to list (go to IMDb). It’s a free presentation.

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Careers In Animation 2013

animator — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:29:21 +0000

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 animation, games and in other areas. Our experts have worked as writers, animators, directors and in other industry jobs and will answer as many questions as possible including how they find work, about creating or joining a start-up, etc. The panel will include (partial list):

CHARLIE CANFIELD, an Emmy award winning freelance animator who presently says he has too much work to do on several documentaries.

JUSTIN KOHN, a stop-motion animator who has worked on all of Henry Selick’s features. His credits include lots of commercials and long format projects (Moral Orel, Hell and Back, etc.) He is producer and VFX director on a Steampunk version of War of the Worlds.

MARK WALSH is a Pixar animator and director. His credits include Finding Nemo, Toy Story Toons episodes, Partysaurus Rex, and more.
(The rest of the panel will be announced in our April newsletter, mailing soon.)

The event is free and open to the public—but please, leave your portfolios at home. Starts at 1pm so get here early for the best seats at The Coppola Theater, Fine Arts Building, SFSU campus.

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Creepy Cartoons – The Dark Side of Animation

Segaltoons — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:12:38 +0000

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 this).

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