Washington DC Motion Graphics Festival 2009 :: Nov 18-22
Thanks to masondixon for the reminder in our forums:
Motion Graphics Festival 2009
New Motion + New Sound + New Code
Washington DC :: Nov 18-22
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The DC Motion Graphics Festival showcases explosive artists and motion picture creators including: Shepard Fairey, Nine Inch Nails, David Byrne, Chuck D of Public Enemy, KRS-One, Addictive TV, Digital Kitchen, The Mill, Passion Pictures, Animal Logic, Post Panic, Dvein, David Lobser and more.
MGFest presents a series of audio visual art happenings featuring live performances by: Ghostly's Matthew Dear aka Audion who recently wrapped up a European tour, the multi-talented composer and instrumentalist Benn Jordan widely known as The Flashbulb, and lightrhythm visuals sought after sketch projectionist Shantell Martin from Tokyo, plus many more surprises TBA with nightly eye-opening events happening November 19th through 21st.
MGFest Sponsors include: Maxon, Netdiver, SXSW, IdN, Stash DVD Magazine, Future Media Concepts, Lumen Eclipse, Sterling Ledet, 88DC, RE:Vision Effects, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, RHED Pixel, Create Digital Motion, Livid Instruments, All City Technology, UnScene, DigiEffects, Resolume, GarageCUBE, Lift Motion Design, VidVox, Boris FX, Toolfarm, Ableton, Michael Wiese Productions, fxphd, Wondertouch, and Clif Bar.
Silent Auction for over $30,000 in software, DVDs and training materials.
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Labels: Festival, MGFest, Motion Graphics Festival
Posted by
Alicia VanHeulen
Call for Entries: Animarte International Art Festival 2009
Animarte is a showcase that focuses on short animated films. The show tours cities in South America bringing some of the best animated shorts from around the world. The show is offered free of charge and we try reach large audiences. We believe in bringing animation shorts to the largest number of people possible to spark their creativity and open their minds to this innovative form of art.
Award: Best Animated Short - Animarte Showcase 2009- There is no entry or registration fee.
- Open to animated and mixed media shorts with a duration of 15 minutes or less.
- All animation techniques are accepted.
- Films with dialogue must be in English or Spanish or have English or Spanish subtitles.
- Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2009. But remember that we receive submissions year-round. If we cannot include your film in this year’s edition we will keep it on file for next year.
Learn more about how to
submit your film.
Labels: Contest, Festival
Posted by
Alicia VanHeulen
Apple opens registration for 2008 Insomnia Film Festival
Apple will post the list of required elements for entries in the 2008 Insomnia Film Festival. Then you and your team will have the next 24 hours to make and upload your 3-minute movie. That's the easy part.
Register by November 13 to participate. The Festival begins November 15.
Labels: Apple, Contest, Festival
Posted by
Michele Yamazaki
Chicago Motion Graphics Festival
Tomorrow I'm teaching the After Effects Master's class at the
Chicago Motion Graphics Festival. If you were able to get a seat, see you in the morning. If not, sorry! I am planning to reformat some of my training seminar and put it online at Toolfarm.
Friday evening is also the Motion Graphics Interactive Mixer and Studio Tour in Chicago. I went last year and it was a truly great time. I met so many nice people and talented artists and Bridges is a neat place. It's 8pm - 12am, Bridges Media Group, 100 W Kinzie St. $20 presales, $25 at the door. It's catered with an open bar, and several interactive motion graphics installations.
On Sunday, I'm on the panel of the CMGF07 Educational Conference. It's from 10am - 6pm, SAIC Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Drive (the rear entrance to the the Art Institute on Michigan Ave). It's $39 presales, $49 at the door, (free with CMGF07 Festival Badge). Panel discussions, short workshops and lecture topics include: how to be a successful freelancer, After Effects studio techniques, hacking motion graphics, how the web is changing film & video, more.
I'll be the one in the Toolfarm t-shirt.
View full Festival ScheduleLabels: After Effects, Festival, Training
Posted by
Michele Yamazaki
Studio Artist Animated Indie Feature "Year of the Fish" to Premiere at 2007 Sundance Film Festival
Animated/Live-Action Film Sets Cinderella in a Chinatown Massage Parlor
HONOLULU HI, January 18 -- Year of the Fish, a contemporary re-telling of Cinderella set in a Chinatown massage parlor, will premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival on January 24th, 2007. This low-budget independent feature film was shot with live actors entirely in Chinatown, New York on low cost video, and then animated in post-production on Apple computers utilizing Studio Artist to create the final high resolution feature film.
Enhanced Intelligent Animation Capabilities
Year Of The Fish uses Studio Artist's unique intelligent auto painting capabilities to give the film a flowing organic look, best described as “a painting brought to life” that stylistically sets itself apart from previous rotoscoped movies. Using Studio Artist also allowed the animators to accomplish with 3 people what would normally employ 40 full-time artists. The low-budget production was created on four Apple G5 computers using Studio Artist at a tiny fraction of the cost of the typical animated feature length film.
Writer/Director David Kaplan was able to sample the color palettes from artists such as Van Gogh and Cezanne using Studio Artist's auto-color palette capabilities and then apply these color schemes to the Studio Artist auto-rotoscoping paint process. "This gives the film a richness and depth unusual to animated fare," notes Kaplan, who is making his feature film debut. Kaplan also used Studio Artist's Supersizer Interpolator and Warping capabilities to up-size paint animated digital footage to a final high resolution frame size and aspect ratio for the final high resolution cinematic feature film.
Kaplan’s screenplay is based on a 9th Century Chinese variant of Cinderella - the oldest known version of the story. The movie stars Tsai Chin (Memoirs of a Geisha), Ken Leung (X-Men: The Last Stand), Randall Duk Kim (The Matrix: Reloaded) and newcomer An Nguyen. It was produced by Janet Yang (The Joy Luck Club) and Rocco Caruso (Judy Berlin). Mr. Kaplan is a New York based filmmaker who has made several award-winning short films, most notably Little Red Riding Hood, starring Christina Ricci.
I posted a still and more information in our Inspirations section. Take a look.
Labels: Festival, Synthetik Studio Artist
Posted by
Michele Yamazaki
Inspire '07
Justin Cone from Motionographer was telling me about an event he's organizing with Jill Taffet, of the Savannah College of Art and Design, called Inspire '07. It's a Broadcast design, motion graphics and media art symposium in Savannah, Georgia, on February 16, 2007.
Presentations will include Marco Spier and Marie Hyon from Psyop, Brien Holman and Jayson Whitmore from Exopolis, Jakob Trollbäck from Trollbäck + Company, and Jose Gomez and Andre Stringer from Shilo. All are multi award-winning creatives who have generated some of the most talked-about work this year for companies such as Gap Inc., Apple Computer and MTV.
Does this not sound like an amazingly cool event?! If you're in the area, I hope you'll check it out.
Labels: Festival, Motionographer
Posted by
Michele Yamazaki
