Post 804 - Getting Ready for Fall Festivals - Stickers for ASIFA Central!

 

Post 769 - 2025 IAD Poster Getting Drafty

 Very First Proto-draft for layout purposes - membership will be invited this week to play

 

Post 719 - 2025's IAD Poster Released!

Lucija Mrzljak created this year's IAD Poster.  She is a Croatian animation film director based in Estonia, teaching at the Estonian Academy of Fine Arts.
Since 2016, Lucija directed several acclaimed animated short films, produced at the Eesti Joonisfilm studio in Tallinn and Adriatic Animation studio in Zagreb. Film "Eeva" (2022) premiered at the Berlinale 2023 and went on to be screened and awarded at numerous film festivals, earning a place on the shortlist for the 2024 Academy Awards and Emile Awards for best character and background design.
In addition to her film work, Lucija collaborated with Oscar-winning musician Glen Hansard in 2019, directing the music video for "The Closing Door." In 2024 she worked with a renowned Estonian musician Mari Kalkun directing a music video for her song Maaimä (Mother Earth).
As an illustration artist Lucija has published several children’s books and created posters for many film festivals.

Her project "statement":
"For my ASIFA World Animation Day poster, I embraced a classical approach, working with graphite and colour pencil on paper to create a tangible, hand-drawn aesthetic. The central inspiration behind the poster is the concept of animation as "light in the dark," a creative force that illuminates and brings life to the unseen. I also drew inspiration from the visionary pioneers of animation, such as Émile Reynaud, Eadweard Muybridge, Joseph Plateau, and Simon Stampfer.  The poster pays homage to their legacy while celebrating the timeless artistry of animation.  Animation continues to evolve as a powerful medium for storytelling and self-expression, inspiring new generations to push creative boundaries and keep the light shining."
 

Post 704 - ASIFA Central November 2024 Newsletter

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Post 702 - ASIFA Central October 2024 Newsletter!

 Oh the bandwidth, the bandwidth!

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Post 699 - The Beans and Animators - Blending Art and Melody!

                This only took six renders to fit into the blog! Woo-eeee!  A better copy is on Vimeo 

Press Here for Vimeo Version

 

 

Post 695 - Slides for an ASIFA Central Retreat - The ANIJAM around the Plympton IAD Poster

Yep, we got Bill Plympton to sketch out the ASIFA IAD poster for this October's celebration - so to give it further attention, we're going to work on animating the frames in its representational "storyboard."  Here were the specs, as provided to ASIFA Central at its autumn retreat September 7, 2024:

This particular slide demonstrated an animated gif based on a "morph" program.  It was lame, but it was intended only as an example.

(see? lame)

This example is shown in an earlier blog posting on the same image, back in August.

And this test, already posted:

The vimeo link in this takes to the August "progress report" as the project was just starting its move into the consciousness of the group.

Click for August tests

And that's it!  If you're an ASIFA member and wish to contribute, you can pick two frames and have your way with them.  Nearly 100 have reviewed our initial discussion of the project in this blog, so I'm optimistic for a good turn out.  We made it part of a 90 minute "bean" workshop during our September ASIFA Central retreat.  The animator of each segment retains all rights to his/her/one's work, and it will be shown on the ASIFA Central youtube channel and posted on this blog.  Oh the fame!!!

 

Post 692 - First Rough Assembly - IAD Poster Animation Material for 2024 - ASIFA Central

 Testing the morphing images, adding the first roughed in animation as examples for the chapter members.

Kids! Try this at home!

2024 ASIFA Central

Post 691 - Anijam Transition Test - Using Plympton and Benny

 First run, using only a morphing program as a test for resolution:

And then, using image three and four as a framing device to introduce Benny:

Take Two - 

And Annoying Autodesk Products in the meantime with other images:

And take Two with that one: