Q&A with Gints Zilbalodis, director of FLOW, at Toronto International Film Festival.
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Q&A with Gints Zilbalodis, director of FLOW, at Toronto International Film Festival.
Festival Q&A with the Best Animated Film Award Nominee THE WINTER (Australia) at Arpa International Film Festival. Filmmaker: Xin Li (Film Director). Moderator: Hrag Meguerditchian (Festival Programmer).
In this webinar, award-winning stop-motion director Martin Smatana (The Kite, Berlinale 2019) will take you on a deep dive into the creative applications of artificial intelligence in animation. Known for his hands-on work with textile and paper, Martin will explore how AI can complement traditional artistry. He’ll showcase various tools such as Dall-E, and Runway, offering practical insights into how these technologies can aid in generating ideas, optimizing workflows, automating tasks, and enhancing creative processes. Whether you’re designing storyboards, generating visuals, or working on sound design, this session will give you concrete strategies to integrate AI into your animation projects, helping you streamline repetitive tasks while maintaining your unique artistic voice.
Based on a major exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford, Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of incredibly dynamic art – ranging from the delicate woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige, to Pop Art posters, contemporary photography, Manga, film, and brand-new artworks that were created on the streets. The exhibition was a smash-hit five-star success and brought a younger and more diverse audience to the museum. The film uses the exhibition as a launchpad to travel to Tokyo itself, and explore the art and artists of the city more fully.
In Syria they take exam stress to a whole new level.
This animated short follows an unwanted baby who is passed from house to house until he is taken in and cared for by two homeless men. The film is the Canadian contribution to an hour-long feature film celebrating UNESCO’s Year of the Child (1979). It illustrates one of the ten principles of the Declaration of Children’s Rights: every child is entitled to a name and a nationality.
Once upon a time, there was a crawling tortoise. The tortoise was told that as long as it keeps going, it will reach the goal. But, why reaching the goal? The story is a reflection of the education system in Asia. High school students aimlessly pursue the one and only goal – getting into the perfect university. But what is next?
The interview with Yonak Kibreab, the voice of Elio in Pixar’s summer film.
Júlia Farkas is the first Hungarian artist who made a short for Adult Swim Smalls, a series dedicated to young artists who can realize their own vision. Júlia is an animation film director who is also an accomplished art teacher and active in the field of new media, her popular gifs have reached more than 2 billion views on her Giphy’s site. In this masterclass Juli will tell us about how to create an auteur animation even if it is a commissioned work. She will tell us how she came up with the initial idea, how to experiment during the production and let new ideas be born even in the later stages and how can you fit these into the original concept. Afterwards, she will examine why the extra short films and animation go well together and why it is interesting to work in this format and how a strange surreal humor feeds her work. She will also tell about the new challenge she faced, when she started to explore the relationship between the visuals and creative sound design.
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.