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In This Issue:Ani-Jam Hi Animators! There's a lot of events happening this month in Seattle. We're having our Ani-Jam this week. Tony White is speaking at the Seattle Flash User Group next week, Tuesday February 23rd. The Academy Award Nominated Short Films at the Varsity in the U District starting Friday the 19th. ByDesign10 is returning to the Northwest Film Forum in March. Lastly, the Academy Award Nominated Princess and the Frog is showing at the Crest Cinema and the Admiral Cinema. It may be your last chance to see it on the big screen. See you at the shows, Steve Ani-Jam & Contest Screening
February 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. Everyone over 21 is welcome. Bring guests! Food and Drink will be available for purchase. While people are drinking and drawing, we'll watch the submissions from the ... Animation ContestIn honor of President's week, the theme is Presidents in Compromising Positions. Here's the contest page. It's not to late to enter. 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 entries at the Ani-Jams. Local ScreeningsOscar Nominated Short Films 2010 Animated February 19–25 The 5 Academy Award nominated animated short films will be screening with other noteworthy animated shorts released in 2009 at the Varsity in the U District. Last year they were held over for 3 weeks, but the official word from Landmark Films is One Week Only! ByDesignMarch 5–11 The tenth annual ByDesign program features a range of film title sequences, animations, documentary portraits and guest presenters. We are especially pleased to present films by Charles and Ray Eames, as the work of the legendary multi-disciplinary husband and wife team was the main inspiration for our starting this program a decade ago. Seattle Moves Seattle animators and motion designers will screen recent projects and discuss their inspirations, creative processes and the behind-the-scenes techniques in creating recent main titles, commercials and short films. Classic Film Titles ByDesign Curator Peter Lucas presents an informal primer on the history of film title sequences. He’ll screen over a dozen classic title sequences created in the 1950s and 60s by such masters as Saul Bass, Maurice Binder, Robert Brownjohn, Pablo Ferro and others. Presented by Northwest Film Forum and AIGA-Seattle 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: Free Animated Features Screening at UW! Tony White @ Flash User Group - Tuesday February 23rd 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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