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Monday, October 27, 2014

What Makes a Great Animator? A Personal View from Mike Nguyen

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Korean Goshawk - animation by Mike Nguyen Mike Nguyen is a veteran animator who has worked on many classic Hollywood feature fil...
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Sunday, October 26, 2014

The World of Free - How Can Freelance Artists Survive in Modern Digital Media? Garrett Gilchrist Explains

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Freelance artists, especially those just starting out, often feel like everyone wants stuff done for free. Unpaid internships, free work ...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

SONG OF THE SEA: Not Quite a Review - by Steve Burch

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Song of The Sea premiered in London on Sunday Night It is not often that you get a European animated feature released. It is not often ...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Mikkel Brons-Frandsen Launches His Free Game "Look"

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Look byMikkel Brons-Frandsen Mikkel Brøns-Frandsen is one of a number of talented students to have graduated from the excellent Animati...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

Happy Birthday Pete Western! - as Drawn by Comic legend Mike Western

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Happy Birthday Pete! Today is the birthday of animator and director Pete Western, and here at FLiP we thought we would share some of th...
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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Remembering Donna

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Remembering Donna Readers of FLiP may have noticed that Steve, FliP's founder and the authentic voice of this blog, hasn't post...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Submit your Indie Film Project now to Cartoon Movie

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Cartoon Movie 2014 The Deadline to submit a feature film project to Cartoon Movie is 26 November 2014. Are you looking for co-producers,...
Monday, September 15, 2014

KAHLIL GIBRAN’S THE PROPHET

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KAHLIL GIBRAN’S THE PROPHET played at Tiff on Friday night at the gorgeous Winter Garden Theatre. This film, which was produced by Salma ...
Friday, September 12, 2014

What Makes a Great Animator? James Chiang Explains

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The animator who brought you surfing penguins Animator, Director and artist James "JC" Chiang has worked as an animator on ma...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Director Frank Gladstone talks about his new film "Hero of Color City"

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Frank Gladstone is a producer, director, animation entrepreneur and the Executive Director of ASIFA Hollywood, the organisation that host...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Timo Vuorensola, Director of Iron Sky, explains Crowd Funding for Beginners

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Timo Vuorensola, director of Iron Sky , gave a lecture at Closing The Gap , a European conference on film financing, explaining how to cr...
Saturday, August 2, 2014

THE STRESSFUL ADVENTURES OF BOXHEAD AND ROUNDHEAD: Independent Animated Feature made (almost literally) on a Shoestring

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The computer has not only made it possible to animate in three or four dimensions, it's eliminated a great deal of the repetitive work a...
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Friday, August 1, 2014

Why Students Need to Fail

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Jason Thompson At the recent SAS (Society of Animation Studies) conference in Toronto, Sheridan professor Jason Thompson gave ...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

Do students need to go to university to learn to animate?

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The TAAFI Education Panel On Monday 16 June TAAFI - the Toronto Animation Art Festival International - hosted a panel talk on the subj...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Story Masterclass with Frank Gladstone in London on 16th August - just £6!

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Lupus films, the folks who brought you The Snowman and The Snowdog , are running a one day masterclass with animation industry vete...
Monday, July 14, 2014

T Dan Hofstedt reveals The Secret of Animation

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T. Dan Hofstedt - animation supremo My old friend and former kumrad at Disney animation, T Dan Hofsted, recently posted at Facebook a r...
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Saturday, July 5, 2014

The Neuroscience of animation

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Your brain, but animated At this year's SAS (Society of Animation Studies) conference in Toronto, a number of presentations ...
Monday, June 30, 2014

Flipping The Classroom

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Alex Williams Alex Williams ' presentation at the Society of Animation Studies lasted only five minutes but had more content than ...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Nancy Beiman explains why animators ought to study Charlie Chaplin

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The Little Tramp. Photo: Wikipedia Why should animators watch Charlie Chaplin films? Nancy Beiman, former supervising animator a...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Pete Western reports on "A Moment in Time" at BFI - the first ever public screening of "The Thief and the Cobbler" in the UK

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Animation people in the UK were in for a rare treat on the first Sunday in June. AMPAS [Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences] a...
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Friday, June 6, 2014

D-Day 70 years on - filmed by Uncle Ken

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Canadian riflemen land at Juno Beach, D Day, 6 June 1944. Colour photo by Ken Bell This article about my great-cunle Ken Bell was fir...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Remembering Caron Creed

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Caron Creed at work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit? . Photo: Pete Western Caron Creed, animator, designer, wife and mother, died in her slee...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Lawrence Marvit introduces Myths from the Underground - out tomorrow!

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Myths from the Underground is a new graphic novel from Eisner-nominated artist Lawrence Marvit. Ever wondered what happened to all the go...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Losing Donna

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On May 16, my wife, Donna, lost her life to cancer.   She was first diagnosed in December of 2010, and over the past three and a half year...
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Sunday, May 11, 2014

What does a visual effects supervisor do, exactly?

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Matt Johnson (left) in Los Angeles on Beverly Hills Chihuahua What does a Visual Effects Supervisor actually do – and how do you...
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