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Júlia Farkas is the first Hungarian artist who made a short for Adult Swim Smalls. She tells about how to create an auteur animation even as commissioned work. Júlia Farkas Budapest-based animation director, character designer, GIF and AR filter maker. MOME graduate. First Hungarian artist to make a short for Adult Swim Smalls. Her popular gifs reached 2+ billion views on Giphy. Films: "Mini thriller" (2008), "The Muscular Princesses" (2009), "Sunday Hangover" (2011), "No End" (2018), "Big Crunch" (2021). More information and lectures at: https://www.ceeanimation.eu https://www.ceeanimation.eu/experience/cee-animation-experience/ https://www.facebook.com/ceeanimation/ CEE Animation Experience is a series of webinars organized in cooperation with selected partners in the CEE region. This activity targets animation industry professionals, who will gain new insights as shared by top regional and world experts and get a rewarding experience of film production directly.
This lecture by Professor Maura McDonnell will give a light introduction to the emergence of visual music from early beginnings, through various technologies and mediums to present day practices.
Interview with directors Kata Gugic and Cliona Noonan referncing their works: Cockpera by Kata Gugic (2020) and Wet & Soppy by Cliona Noonan (2020).
Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive. Over the years, a city grows in his imagination. One day, literary heroes and childhood cartoon idols, who in the consciousness of the successive generations are forever young and wearing short pants, come to live there, uninvited. When our hero discovers they have all grown old and that eternal youth does not exist, he decides to return to real life, and the amazing characters living in his imagination lead him back to the real world.
Caroline Leaf at Animateka 2012.
A disproportionately low number of women are working behind the camera in film and TV, and the same can be said of the tech and gaming industries. Now that we have identified the problem, what is being done to effect change? These innovators will discuss pioneering efforts that are designed to level the playing field.
Bill Plympton at LINOLEUM 2014.
You came for the zombies, but you stayed for the characters. ParaNorman, the second film from LAIKA Studios, is full of lovably unique characters whose distinctive stop-motion puppets were built by hand with belly-movers, metal armatures, guitar-tuning devices, and more.
GIF for cultural centre Bašta Bardejov in Slovakia
Itzel, a young girl of Mayan descent, goes on a camping trip with her father deep in the jungle. As they stargaze together, Itzel’s curiosity leads her to wander off and explore. While wandering, she discovers a jaguar in captivity and, without hesitation, frees the majestic animal. However, their escape is short-lived. While trying to escape, she stumbles upon a mysterious lost Mayan city and experiences a vision of the city’s glory days, guided by a magical jaguar, called Balam.
A fun and educative plasticine animation to learn the letters of the alphabet.
During a PowerPoint presentation, statistical diagrams are breaking free from the strait-jacket of their coordinates. A trip into the sensual world of statistics begins. Pie charts are melting, arrow diagrams twisting, scatter plots, bar graphs and stock market curves join in a collective climax.
The lecture covers animation in the context of new media and how it changes under the influence of other types of contemporary art, such as games, performance, installation. What kind of new animation tools emerged? How to use bugs and mistakes in search of innovation? How to use AI in contemporary animation?
The story of two sisters who spent their entire lives together looking back at their cherished memories.
Craig Kausen, grandson of the legendary animation filmmaker, Chuck Jones, spoke in a special guest speaker event for NYFA students and faculty. Kausen discussed the work and career of Chuck Jones, whose name is synonymous with characters from Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, and Merrie Melodies. Event was moderated by Paul Laverack.
An interview with artist-in-residence Gianluigi Toccafondo, who we were extremely happy to host in Ljubljana for the 20th edition of Animateka, since he was the winner of the 1st Grand Prix of Animateka back in 2004.
Nikita Diakur on Ugly Aesthetics and Interactive Animation and his latest animated short Ugly.
An interview with Aisha Madu, author of the film Bodily Disfunctions (Student competition programme).
The interview with the directors Ala Nunu Leszynska & Nadja Andrasev.