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ByDesign 08

Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave., Seattle WA, 98122
Wheelie access to cinemas and restrooms. Workshop space is not fully accessible.

This special annual series explores the intersection of graphic design and moving image, and celebrates multidisciplinary artists who push at the boundaries to create new techniques, styles and forms.

Bydesign events involving animation:

The Dot and The Line

from a film by Frank Mouris

March 7 - 8pm

Creative Shorts of the 60s, 70s
Various directors, US/Canada, 1965-77, 16mm, 75 min.

This selection of rarely seen short films made in the 1960s and 70s presents a variety of unique perspectives and inventive techniques. The program includes shorts by Saul Bass, Charles and Ray Eames, Norman McLaren, Frank Mouris, Charles Braverman, Chuck Jones and Jim Henson.

$8.50 general / $5 members / $6 children, seniors

A History of Computer Graphics in Film with Alvy Ray Smith

Pixar Studios

March 9 - 7pm

Legendary computer graphics innovator Alvy Ray Smith discusses the evolution of computer animation and show clips ranging from John Whitney’s early experiments in the 1960s to landmark visual effects and animation in popular cinema of the 70s and 80s.

$8.50 general / $5 members / $6 children, seniors

Entropy: New Short Films and Music Videos

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March 8 - 7:30pm and 9pm, and March 9 - 9pm

Film shorts and music videos from the U.S., U.K., Brazil, Germany, Sweden and Lithuania. The primarily animated program includes work by Graham Wood, Light Surgeons, Semiconductor, Max Hattler, Impactist, Stewart Smith and Guilherme Marcondes, as well as the latest installment of collaborative project “Psst! Pass it on” featuring contributions from nearly 50 directors.

Full Schedule: nwfilmforum.org/cinemas/bydesign08.php

Series curated by Peter Lucas.
Present by Northwest Film Forum and AIGA-Seattle
Sponsored by AIGA-Seattle, Cornish College of the Arts, and Digital Kitchen

Tony White: Traditional Animator

Tony White

Adobe Conference Center, U Room
701 N. 34th St., Seattle, WA 98103

Tony studied advanced animation techniques extensively with Ken Harris, who was the original lead animator for many Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny, Roadrunner, and other cartoons, Art Babbit, who was the original lead animator on “Pinocchio,” “Fantasia,” etc. at Disney. Tony was personal assistant, as well as full time director and animator for Richard Williams, who won three Oscars and authored “The Animator’s Survival Kit.”

Presented by the Seattle Flash User Group

Please see Events 2008 for more details.

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