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Ottawa International Animation Festival – Day Two
ShareIt’s not hard to forget that it’s work. Meet the filmmakers was uneventful. I twittered some choice quotes. My primary goal for the day was to meet Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes to discuss our conversation scheduled for 7:00. Small … Continue reading
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Ottawa International Animation Festival -Day One
SharerThUneventful day on Wednesday. In the morning I tried some Television Animation Conference panels. Tough going. Especially the French woman who -with stereotypical chauvinism -asserted that animation would likely not exist today if not for it’s “creation” in France. A … Continue reading
Ottawa Schedule
ShareNext week we’ll be in Capital City, Canada for the Ottawa International Animation Festival. Our film, “Sympathy for the Fish”, will be playing in the International Showcase and I’ll be presenting various things. Here’s a schedule, if you’re there try … Continue reading
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Sketches
ShareThese are a few sketches which Kelsey did for “The Honor Code”. And this. The Honor Code | Katy Chevigny from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo.
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Tissa David
ShareTissa David lived a life -was a person -worth eulogizing in heartiest way. Her fans would create opportunities to sing her praises, as we have for the past few decades. The canon of work bears repeating. The first woman to … Continue reading
Old Man
ShareI have a hardened eye towards animated films based on “real audio”. Generally the picture drags down the audio; the audience would be better served listening to a radio play. Sometimes it works. Leah Shore’s “Old Man” opened the Genart … Continue reading
A Not Particularly Illuminating Review of the Quay Bros. Show
ShareThere’s something unnerving about the Brothers Quay. Not their work so much, but them. But their work is tied so closely to their work some of that inscrutability might transfer. Ron Magliozzi, Associate Curator at the MoMA where “Quay Brothers: … Continue reading
Stripping.
ShareSara Calagero, with whom I worked for several years, would spend her downtime cutting peg strips. I didn’t even have to ask her (and I asked her about almost everything) before she offered: “You never want to run out of … Continue reading
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Olympic Images
ShareWay back in 2008, we produced a series of web bits for Comedy Central at Asterisk with Steve Kerper. They were fairly simple, no animation to speak of, but very nice drawings by ZEES and great voice work from Dr. … Continue reading
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The Question
ShareI don’t have an answer. A lot of answers, maybe. What to do about the project that’s not particularly interesting creatively and doesn’t offer enough pay to make it interesting? I try to take “how much not enough money?” and … Continue reading