Tag: CalArts
Breaking the Glass Frame Spotlights Women’s Achievements and Challenges
On the morning of Saturday, October 6, as Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was being confirmed after facing sexual assault allegations in hearings that...
News Bytes: Where Do Yeti Come From?, ‘MHA’ Is Box Office Hero, Cartoon Controversies & More!
’Portlandia’s Jonathan Krisel to Direct ‘Sesame Street’ Movie at Warner Bros.
Deadline confirms the news that the three-time Emmy nominee will be helming the new...
Jeron Braxton, Bronwyn Maloney Receive 1st GLAS Animation Grants
The worthy recipients of the first annual GLAS Animation Grant have been announced, with Jeron Braxton and Bronwyn Maloney each to receive $2,500 to...
Exclusive Clip: William Salazar’s DreamWorks Short ‘Bird Karma’
Writer-director William Salazar’s acclaimed new animated short Bird Karma has been receiving raves since it premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in...
Animation Is Film Prelim Line-Up, Jury Members Announced
Organizers of the second annual Animation Is Film festival (Oct. 19-21 at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood) have revealed the preliminary competition selection...
Shion Takeuchi Inks Multi-Year Overall Deal with Netflix
Emmy and Annie Award-nominated animation writer Shion Takeuchi, currently a staff writer on Netflix’s recently premiered Disenchantment, has signed a multi-year, overall deal with...
USC, UCLA, CalArts & WIA Set Breaking the Glass Frame Program
USC, UCLA and CalArts, along with Women in Animation, have announced the final program for Breaking the Glass Frame: Woman & Animation, Past, Present,...
Animation Nights New York Sets 3rd Annual Best of Fest
Animation Nights New York will present its third consecutive annual ANNY Best of Fest next month, with two days of animation screening, a fine...
GIPHY Launches Ultra-Micro Film Festival
Animated GIF sharing/hosting platform GIPHY is building on its commitment to the micro-entertainment medium by launching the first GIPHY Film Fest. The challenge put...
SoCal Schools & WIA Announce LA Women’s Animation Symposium
The University of Southern California, University of California Los Angeles and California Institute of the Arts have partnered with Women In Animation to create...
CalArts Students Create Animated Spots for UN’s Gender Equality Project
Over the past few months, CalArts (California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita) teachers Pia Borg and Soyeon Kim and the students in...
Emmy-Winning ‘Smurfs’ Director-Producer Gerard Baldwin Dies Age 89
Gerard Baldwin, an American director, writer, producer and educator whose prolific TV animation career spanned more than 40 years, died on April 18 in...
Disney Animation Artist Dave Michener Dies Age 85
Dave Michener, an animator and story artist with Disney for more than three decades, died at home in Los Angeles on February 15 from...
CalArts 2018 Producer’ Show Toasts 22 Student Animations
One of the world’s most revered animation schools, California Institute of the Arts presented its annual Producers’ Show on Tuesday night in Los Angeles....
Fest Anča Selects: ‘Negative Space,’ ‘Ugly,’ ‘Birdlime’ Make the Cut
The 11th Fest Anča International Animation Festival -- taking place June 28 to July 1 in Zilina, Slovakia -- will be screening 283 thought-provoking...
28th Animafest Zagreb Lineup Announced
The 28th World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb has revealed a rich and diverse program of over 350 films for the 2018...
Animation Magazine’s Rising Stars of 2018
***These profiles were written by Ellen Wolff and Ramin Zahed for the April 2018 issue of Animation Magazine No. 279***
We are so proud to...
Indie Filmmaker Lei Lei Joins CalArts Experimental Animation Faculty
The California Institute of the Arts announced that independent animator Lei Lei has joined its Experimental Animation Program faculty in the spring 2018 semester....
‘Roger Ramjet’ Creator Fred Crippen Dies Age 90
Fred Crippen, the prolific animator, writer, producer, director and founder of Pantomime Pictures who created the famous 1960s series Roger Ramjet, passed away March...
Disney XD Slates First Student Short Premiere from Animag Rising Star Yonatan Tal
This Saturday, March 24, Disney XD will premiere music-driven short Nightmare in the Morning from Yonatan Tal during his third year at CalArts in...
[adrotate group="2"]
NEWSLETTER
CONTEST
[adrotate banner=”961″]
[adrotate group="11"]
