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October 27th, 2008

Animation Show of Shows

Animation Show of Shows

Ron Diamond of Acme FilmWorks brought his Animation Show of Shows to Electronic Arts today. The 85 minute show included 11 different shorts, plus a Q&A session with two of the directors afterward. Koji Yamamura (left) directed “Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor”, and Alexi Alexeev (center) directed the (very) short “KJFG #5.” Ron Diamond is on the right.

My personal favorite was “Keith Reynolds Can’t Make It Tonight,” which was director Felix Massie’s graduation film for his animation degree. (You can see an excerpt here.) He uses simple stick figure animation in a Sim Tower type environment with a wonderful narration voiceover.

October 27th, 2008

Do Not Follow Bird

Do Not Follow Bird
I took this last month when I was in Pittsburgh. I have no idea what it means, though you have to assume that the person wouldn’t have gone to the effort if he didn’t think it was good advice. I’m going to go with him on this one.