“Pirogues” selected to screen at major youth film festival in Italy
After the recent win at the Festival Récréacourt in Paris “Pirogues” will be screening in the Shorts of Love Section at the 40th Giffoni Film Festival in Italy between 18-31 July 2010.
www.giffoniff.it
Cathal Gaffney talks about hard work, self-reliance and an endless passion for animation
http://www.bizstartup.ie/entrepreneurs/item/26-cathal-gaffney/
Old Fangs, directed by Adrien Merigeau and produced by Cartoon Saloon has been selected for screening at the Worldwide Short Film Festival which is being held in Toronto, Canada.
The festival will take place from June 1 to June 6, 2010.
Old Fangs is being screened twice throughout the festival and you can find out screening details from the festival website.
Still Films wants your animation reels!
Still Films are currently seeking showreels from animators based in Ireland for a pilot mix-media project.
Reels should be sent to reels at still films dot org, immediately! Alternatively you can po them in the post: Still Films, 68 Dame Street, Dublin 2.
Thanks for your time!
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Still Films
68 Dame Street
Dublin 2
Tel: 01 6717828
http://www.stillfilms.org/
Steve Wood’s ADMIT ONE screens in Meeting House Square
ADMIT ONE…
Wednesday 19 May, RTÉ Two, 22.50 RTÉ Dance On The Box.
Friday/Saturday Meeting House Square, Temple Bar. 22.00.
Kavaleer http://www.kavaleer.com/blog/2010/05/kavaleer-and-pegbar-digitize-the-nation/ and Pegbar http://pegbar.ie will be showing St. Audeons National School school students how digital art is created; sharing with the children how cartoons are made and inspiring the next generation of animation artists!
Date: Friday the 21st of May
Time: 3hours in the morning.
Class Content:
- An Introduction to Animation and the Animation process.
- Drawing Characters and looking at facial expressions.
- Using facial expressions to tell story.
- Drawing Storyboards
- Animating Workshop, using Freeware Programme ‘Pencil’
and
- Conclusions and possibilities for the children.
It’s going to be a wonderful and exciting day for everyone involved.
The comedy puppet series, originally created by Irish writer and impressionist Mario Rosenstock and producer, director and puppeteer Damian Farrell began on Setanta Sports in 2007. However, with Setanta’s demise, Jose put a transfer request in and BBC3 have since snapped him up.
Read full at Caboom’s blog
http://caboomblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/special-1-is-returning-to-england-for.html
The human form is perhaps the most enduring theme in visual art; life drawing is the traditional art discipline of drawing from a live model.
This group aims to provide regular life drawing sessions for anyone wishing to improve their ability to depict the human form. All disciplines and skill levels welcome.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116564575049433
Email Jonathan Byrne for more details: jonathanbyrne@gmail.com
The next session takes place on tuesday 18th of May at the Exchange, Upper Exchange Street, Temple Bar. The model is Meri. Admission €5.
Pegbar has started on linkedin!
linkedin is an amazing networking site, so Pegbar have set a group up on the site.
If you’re on linkdin join the group!….http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2910379&trk=hb_side_g
if not…….I’d recommend joining linkedin. It is an extremely resourceful site for animation artists!
http://www.linkedin.com