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Newsletter: November 9, 2007

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ASIFA Seattle Planning Meeting
Animation Camera Available
Classes and Workshops

Hi Everyone,

We did it!

Our first event as ASIFA Seattle.

We'd like to thank Ron Diamond of ACME Filmworks and AWN for coming to Seattle to screen his The 9th Annual Animation Show of Shows. We had a good turn-out for the show on October 27th. There were ASIFA members, students from the Art Institute and other schools, and a few friends gathered to see 16 animated shorts.

from Animation Show of Shows
“John and Karen”
by Matthew Walker
Ron gave some background on the screenings. He used to run the International Tourney of Animation and wanted to continue exposing animators to the great films he found at international festivals. Originally presented exclusively to animation studios, like Walt Disney and Pixar, he's expanded the tour to include ASIFA chapters and animation schools around the country.

Special thanks go out to our presenting partners:

Last weekend was the 2D or Not 2D Festival up in Everett. Three days of animation screenings mixed with some great speakers. I made it for Saturday's program, and saw a few others from ASIFA Seattle. Michel Gagné showed examples of his work ranging from a student film to his work on features like Osmosis Jones and Ratatouille as well as a sneak peek of an upcoming flash driven computer game he's working on.

It's a great event to have so close, I hope to see more of you there next year!

2D or Not 2D Festival

That's all this month.

Steve

ASIFA Seattle Planning Meeting

The next planning session will be on the 3rd Thursday in November.
We moved it up a week due to Thanksgiving.

Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 7-9pm
Northwest Film Forum
   - 1515 12th Ave, Seattle WA 98122
   - Located on Capitol Hill between Pike and Pine
   - click here for directions and parking information
206-329-2629

Agenda:
     • Reschedule the Ani-Jam
     • Animation Show of Shows - post event review
     • Membership
          • Levels
          • Dues schedule
          • International Benefits

Everyone is welcome to attend.
If you have ideas to share but can’t make it,
please contact: Steve Ball, Secretary news@asifaseattle.com or
Natt Thangvijit, President president@asifaseattle.com

Animation Camera

The Northwest Film Forum has a new animation room with a Fax Animation Stand. It's an old school rostrum camera similar to an Oxberry. It has been updated with a dedicated digital video camera and a mac with framethief software. The stand is capable of doing 2-d and 3-d animation under the camera using the table's many movements.

Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, Washington
For more information, certification and rental terms, contact NWFF studio director Dave Hanagan: dave@nwfilmforum.org

Classes and Workshops

911 Media Arts Center: Workshops

Hands on Animation Lab: Stop Motion
Tuesday, November 13, 5-9pm
cost - $ 95 ($65 911 members)
instructor - Brian Ainslie
Class limit: 12
This stop motion animation workshop will cover the basics of animation with clay, puppets, and other three-dimensional objects. We will explore character and puppet construction techniques. Additionally we will cover the use of camera and lights for effective storytelling. Lastly we will cover the use of The Animation Lunchbox for capture of your animation. Included in this class is the use of 4 hours of animation time at 911 Media.
This class is open to all skill levels. No previous experience in drawing or film required.
Hands on Animation Lab: Cut it Out!
Thursday, December 6, 5-9pm
cost: $ 95 ($65 911 members)
instructor: Brian Ainslie
class limit: 12
This cut out animation workshop will cover two dimensional animation with cut out collage paper and other animation materials. Animation could also include rice, beads, sand or other experimental mediums. We will cover puppet construction techniques and other material animation methods. We will also explore the use of The Animation Lunchbox for capture of your animation. Included in this class is the use of 4 hours of animation time at 911 Media.
This class is open to all skill levels. No previous experience in drawing or film required.

Northwest Film Forum: Workshops

After Effects Basics
Three Tuesdays, Nov. 13, 20 & 27, 6:30-9:30pm
cost: $280 ($250 WigglyWorld Members)
instructor: Trent Woolford
class limit: 7
AfterEffects is a powerful 2D animation and compositing tool, with a wide range of applications. Commonly used for film, television and multimedia, this program can be difficult to crack at first, but once the basics are mastered, it offers a seemingly inexhaustible depth of possibilities. We'll be learning, from the ground up, how to combine and manipulate footage, animate typography, and use other elements to composite visually rich motion graphics, which can then be output to a variety of formats.
Optical Printer Basics
Two Saturdays, Dec. 1 & 8, 12-3pm
cost: $100 ($80 WigglyWorld Members)
instructor: Jon Behrens
class limit: 8
A comprehensive look at NWFF's JK 103 Optical Printer for 16mm and Super 8mm Film. The optical printer is an age-old device for printing the image from one roll of film onto another roll. This allows for multiple special effects techniques including multiple exposures, step and skip printing for speed changes and strobing effects, color effects, and traveling matte tricks. The class will cover both functionality and stylistic techniques with hands-on assignments and clips of work that the class will view of some of experimental film's masters. Students are encouraged to bring some S8 or 16mm footage to experiment with, preferably black and white.

That's all for now …

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