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In This Issue:Socializer & Interactive Clay Animation Socializer & Interactive Clay Animation - Thursday Night!Jan 21 7-10 PM Socialize and network with local animators. Bring partners and friends, we promise not to bore them. ;) Lukas Allenbaugh from Clay Animation Network www.cancancancan.com will join us to create of an interactive clay animation. Think Ani-Jam with clay instead of drawing! Come experiment with the medium that has given birth to Gumby, Wallace & Gromit, Closed Mondays and Mr. Bill. Everyone over 21 is welcome. Bring guests! Food and Drink will be available for purchase. Ani-Jam & Contest Screening
Feb 18 7-10 PM It's back, the ever popular Ani-Jam. No pencil tests here, we go straight to ink. We'll supply the light tables, pens and camera. All you need to do is show up for an evening of drawing, drinking, food, fun and socializing! Everyone at the Ani-Jam will have the chance to draw 10 frames of animation. We'll have 4 or 5 light tables set-up to keep things moving along. Someone draws 10 frames to start. Then the drawings are handed to the next person who adds 10 frames of their own. The drawings keep getting passed from animator to animator. After everyone has had a chance or two to draw, we'll add some tweens to tie all the stacks together. The drawings will be digitized right there. Then at the end of the evening we'll screen the animation. While people are drinking and drawing, we'll watch the submissions from the ... Animation ContestMake Way! Make Way! for Our first Animation Contest! The theme is Presidents in Compromising Positions in honor of President's week. Submit your short (very short, 15 seconds, maybe less?—3 minutes in length) animation. Any medium accepted. If you send us a Flash or Quicktime file, we'll post it on the contest page. Entries will be screened at the Ani-Jam. Have fun, and don't take it too seriously! We will run the contest quarterly and screen entrys at the Ani-Jams. Local ScreeningsStop & GoFriday, February 5, 2010, 7pm Jack Straw Productions will host the Stop & Go stop-motion film screening on February 5th, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. The line-up of videos includes national and international artists and is curated by San Francisco Bay Area artist and animator Sarah Klein. Klein, who uses hand-drawn images and stop-motion animation in her own work, chose pieces that explore the possibilities of stop-motion processes. The animators breathe life into magazine cutouts, homemade drawings, everyday objects, and even the body itself. The result is a selection of videos that are humorous, poignant, and marvelous. The complete list of artists includes Ignacio Alcantara, Tommy Becker, Lilli Carré, Pete Davies, Samara Halperin, Meredith Holch, Sean Horchy, Stephanie Hutin, Andrew Kelleher, Lana Kim, Sarah Klein, Mike Leavitt, Michael McHam, Laurie O'Brian, Saelee Oh, Mel Prest, Clare Rojas, Judith Selby, SAF Cakovec Studio, Jen Stark, Melinda Stone, Claudia Tennyson, Sherri Wood, Aeneas Wilder, and Andrew Jeffery Wright. Children's Film Festival Seattle 2010January 22–31 The 5th annual festival has lots of animation programs from around the globe. For details and the complete schedule go to www.nwfilmforum.org/go/childrensfilmfest/cffseattle.htm ASIFA Seattle Web ForumsCatch up with the forums and get the best animation info first. The forums are a great place to share information about screenings and events with animation professionals in the Puget Sound area. Get together with your peers! Recent Threads: Stop & Go Screening at Jack Straw Productions Quarterly Animation Contest - suggest a theme The forums are for you to express yourself, spread news, talk about upcoming events, ask for help, contribute tips and techniques, and anything else you want to share with the local animation community! That's all for now... Contact Steve Ball at to be listed in our events postings. To change your subscription settings, contact
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