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Cartoon Brew is pleased to announce a call for entries for our second annual Student Film Festival. We launched the Student Film Festival last year and the response exceeded our wildest expectations with over 120 entries from around the world.
Our mission for the festival is simple: to share and promote student-produced animated shorts of the highest caliber…the most original, the most thought-provoking, the ones that make us laugh hardest and engage us emotionally. We know that students are producing some of the most exciting work in the animation art form today and we want to show this work to our broad community of industry artists and animation aficionados. This year, not only will our festival selections debut on the Cartoon Brew home page, we’ve also arranged real world screenings of the films at the new TRICKSTER festival in San Diego and at The Cinefamily theater in Los Angeles.
Here’s all the info you need:
RULES
1. It has to be animated. (Obviously.)
2. It has to be a student film. (Even more obvious.)
3. Must have been completed after March 1, 2010.
4. Must be an online premiere. (Films that are accessible online to the public will not be considered.)
5. Submissions due by Tuesday, May 31, 2011
SUBMIT
To submit, send an email to studentfest (at) cartoonbrew (dot) com with the following info:
• Your name, school and country
• Film title and synopsis
• Private link and password (ex: Password-Protected Vimeo link, Private or Unlisted YouTube link, or a website download link).
WHAT HAPPENS IF I’M SELECTED
We will announce the festival selections in early June. Screenings will begin on Cartoon Brew later in June. Every film that is selected to screen as part of the Cartoon Brew Student Film Festival will be paid a screening fee of $300(US). We don’t take any exclusivity over your film. In other words, you are still free to submit to festivals, sell it to distributors, and post it anywhere on-line after its debut in our festival.
ONE FINAL NOTE
Many students are erroneously informed in school that posting their film on-line ruins their festival chances. We’ve explored the issue before by speaking with festival directors and recommend reading this. None of the major animation festivals enforce such a rule today. However, some non-animation festivals, like Sundance, ask that a film be taken off-line during the course of their festival (although we know for a fact that they have not enforced the rule in the past). As far as we know, the only awards organization that strictly demands films remain off-line is the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, so if you’re trying to qualify for a Student Academy Award, you don’t want to post your film on-line.
“One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it you have no certainty, until you try.”
- Sophocles
Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. Sophocles wrote 123 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Trachinian Women, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus.
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When I laid all my sketch sheets out on her desk, I was thrilled by how much she laughed (in a good way, fortunately). She said she really liked the idea and did seem genuinely keen, so it all looked very positive. But...
...I have been waiting all this time for a verdict on whether the book is to go ahead. To be honest, I was starting to resign myself to the inevitable rejection. Then early last week I got an email: I only had to hold my breath for one more week, because this week my book would be going before an acquisitions meeting at Gullane.
All new project ideas need to be taken to an acquisitions meeting: it's there that final decisions are made about which books will happen and which will bite the dust. Unfortunately, I've been told on at least two previous occasions that this project was scheduled for the next meeting, but it keeps getting put back.
But this time it actually happened. In fact, it was TODAY (gulp). I have been trying hard not to think about it too much and get on with Baby Goes Baaaaa!, but at 5pm I got a phone call from the editor to let me know that the answer is... YES!!!
There are still all the contract negotiations to get through, but, all things being equal, it will go ahead, so celebrations are definitely in order. HURRAY!!
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Congratulations! That must be so exciting. But my goodness it's scary hearing how the world of publishing works, and how sloooowly... It reminds me that, long process though I think this bit is, if I ever actually do get around to finishing my book, that will only be the start of an even longer process!
Congratulations. Well deserved. Your talent is amazing and I'm so glad it continues to be recognised. Please make sure the Gullane people know they must freight to Australia! I hope it is chapter book as my kids are almost 7,9 & 11 and moving up the reading scale. It would be great to 'grow up' with your books.
I've only recently discovered your inspiring and colourful blog, and have to say HUGE congratulations to you on the news of your book! You must be so excited!
Thank you everyone! Yes, I'm really chuffed, as this is the first one I've written that has a proper story, rather than being a silly poem or a baby book.
Now I just have to do all the actual work (rats)...
BTW, it is a picture book I'm afraid Deborah. Mind you, I still read picture books and I'm never going to see 11 again!
Last year I worked on some cute puzzles for Innovative Kids and they are now available. They are soft and foamy & perfect for little hands plus they stick to the tub at bath time!
Our first glimpse of Spielberg’s (and Jackson’s) mo-cap Tin Tin movie. They are still afraid to show us their faces – and I’m still not entirely sure why this film had to be motion capture – but it’s looking quite good nonetheless.
Today this blog turns 5 years, a lot of drawing and some great feedback and friends all over the world (not to count all the great commission work it has brought me). I hope I can muster the energy to keep on for five more years.
And remember to order my brand new book before the 1 of June to get it autographed and doodled.
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Härligt att vandra runt på bloggen och bara njuta av dina fina illustrationer. :-) Grattis till dina fem år! Hoppas du fortsätter länge till med tecknandet, Mattias.
Perhaps the rare visitor to this blog might recall the recent post where it was conjectured that my inkjet printer may have exploded?
Well it's happened again, only this time it was the delivery of the actual proofs from the publisher. Happily, I'm thrilled with the outcome... which as anyone who's been disappointed in color reproductions knows, is saying a lot.
It is a joy to spend hours just soaking up the details of every digital brushstroke which previously had only existed only on the computer screen.
I often wondered if the print outcome would work with the many new techniques I tried. At times making the paintings seemed almost symphonic, the colors obtained seemed so rich, deep and textured.
But I'm happy to report that the printed colors were exactly as I'd hoped. Even details the size of a dandruff speck were matched on paper.
So awhile back I wrote about how we have been having an unusual amount of luck ever since moving to China. Well, guess what? It looks like our luck is still holding.
Promotional Poster Job I did for the Playmill. This year they are featuring Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Dirty Rotten Scoundrals, and High School Musical.
Popularized in the 1960s by Pop artists like Andy Warhol, screen printing remains a favorite among artists due to its versatility, duplicability, and relatively low cost. In Pulled: A Catalog of Screen Printing, best-selling author Mike Perry (Hand Job, Over and Over) collects the work of more than forty of today’s most talented designers who are, in their own way, pushing the boundaries of this dynamic medium.
Pulled features the work of Aesthetic Apparatus, Deanne Cheuk, Steven Harrington, Maya Hayuk, Cody Hudson, Jeremyville, Andy Mueller, Rinzen, Andy Smith, and many more!
London-based illustrator & designer Ryan Todd creates refreshing work; Taking a great understanding of how to use bright colors best, combined with a wonderful retention towards simplicity, his work leaves you with pleasant thoughts and emotion. Ryan states that his focus is on “producing ideas-led images which exercise forms of creative thinking and wit.” He also holds his desk at East London image factory: OPEN
This Saturday, May 21st at 1PM, I'll be presenting at the Southwest Regional Library in Durham, SC and talking all things Lunch Lady and comics. All the information you need is in this link.
See you there!
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Max Porter of the husband-and-wife animation team Tiny Inventions wrote a fascinating blog post about the pros and cons of immediately distributing their short Something Left, Something Taken on-line last year instead of waiting for the film to complete its festival run:
I read a comment on a popular film blog a while back that asked how filmmakers could afford to give their work away for free. Ru and I always felt the exact opposite. How could we afford not to put our work online? For us it was simple. We reasoned that the sale of our animation could not possibly generate enough money to sustain our life in New York. By putting our work in a place that people could see it, we actually ended up making far more money from opportunities created from the online presence than we had in previous years.
PS: As further proof that times have changed, Something Left, Something Taken is one of two American shorts competing in the shorts category at Annecy next month.
Usually abstract paintings are two dimensional shapes laid out on a flat surface. But you can also create abstract shapes in perspective, resulting in what I like to call a “three-dimensional abstract.”
Science fiction book covers are a perfect setting for such images, because it’s fun to contemplate strange forms whose function is a mystery.
This wraparound book cover, which I painted in oil, has just been released from IDW Press. It presents a starship interior going back into space. Like a child looking at the adult world, I don't know the purpose of each of the forms. I imagined that the forms were not so much designed by humans, as “grown” according to crystal-like rules.
Some forms have luminous panels, but overall, the scene is lit from a warm inside source behind us to the left, along with a cool sun out there in space, half-hidden by the window.
Thanks for the compliment, Bastian. I forgot to mention that this edition includes a graphic novel version of the novel by Alan Robinson, followed by the text of Harlan Ellison's novel.
Seems quite a catch! Would get it if I hadn't gotten myself a video from Gnomon. And mr Giancola's DVD.
(don't worry mr Gurney, Imaginative Realism and Color and Light are already there. I got the chance to pre-order them from Amazon after catching some promo material on an ImagineFX a while ago :)
Why ARE cats so hard to draw? And in spite of being inordinately fond of them--I find them very difficult to draw. Bears? Dogs? Chickens? No problem...but CATS?!
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Awesome Lynne!! yes, go celebrate!!! This is wonderful news :o)
Congratulations! That must be so exciting. But my goodness it's scary hearing how the world of publishing works, and how sloooowly... It reminds me that, long process though I think this bit is, if I ever actually do get around to finishing my book, that will only be the start of an even longer process!
Fantastic, well done!
Congratulations, Lynne. It's funny how one short word, NO, can be so easy for a publisher to say, while another short word, YES, takes months.
Congrats! good for you!
Congratulations. Well deserved. Your talent is amazing and I'm so glad it continues to be recognised. Please make sure the Gullane people know they must freight to Australia! I hope it is chapter book as my kids are almost 7,9 & 11 and moving up the reading scale. It would be great to 'grow up' with your books.
I'm very happy for you. Congrats, Lynne!
Hello Lynne
I've only recently discovered your inspiring and colourful blog, and have to say HUGE congratulations to you on the news of your book! You must be so excited!
Sending love
Julia x
Congrats!
Thank you everyone! Yes, I'm really chuffed, as this is the first one I've written that has a proper story, rather than being a silly poem or a baby book.
Now I just have to do all the actual work (rats)...
BTW, it is a picture book I'm afraid Deborah. Mind you, I still read picture books and I'm never going to see 11 again!
So nice to hear positive news about book proposals going through the acquisitions process :o)
I remember the days when the Publishing Director used to just say Yes or No to our proposals... life was a little simpler then!
Congratulations Lynne.