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Tony White
Tony White is a British Academy Award-winning animation director, animator, author, educator and consultant. At the beginning of his career, he studied advanced animation techniques with some of the finest masters of the art-form. Specifically: Ken Harris (original lead animator of "Bugs Bunny," "Roadrunner," etc.), Art Babbit (original lead animator on "Pinocchio," "Fantasia," etc.) and Richard Williams (3 times Oscar winner and author of "The Animator's Survival Kit"). Tony is currently animation program director and instructor at the inspirational non-profit, AIE-Seattle (www.theaie.us), where he is developing a 2-year program that will enable students to enter the industry without the extreme student loan challenges that are common at other animation schools in the USA. Tony is founder of "Drawassic Age" (www.drawassic.com), a ground-breaking animation studio that seeks to preserve, teach and evolve the art-form of traditional animation in this digital age. Tony's ultimate dream is to establish a unique atelier-style studio/academy of advanced animation - where his most talented student graduates can gain industry experience through an MFA-level style apprenticeship with master professional animators, on unique, ground-breaking animated films. To help realize this dream, Drawassic Age is currently producing a short 2D animated teaser for its first intended movie production "Bad Penguin". (www.badpenguinmovie.com) Tony's current best-selling books include: "The Animator's Workbook"; "Animation from Pencils to Pixels ~ Classical Techniques for Digital Animators"; "How To Make Animated Films" and "Jumping Through Hoops: The Animation Job Coach". His latest (and Tony believes, his best) animation book, "Animator's Notebook", is to be published in October 2011 by Focal Press.
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PENCIL LINES: PHEW!

PHEW!

I just took advantage of the Memorial Day weekend to complete a pitch for the Direct TV short film competition. The competition ends tonight (May 25th) on filmaka.com and so it's been a bit of pressure as I only heard about it mid last week. Anyway, whereas I suspect that most entries will be live action/special effects films, I've decided to bite the bullet and go for traditional 2D animation.

'Danny'... my central character!

The rules are that you submit an idea pitch, including a 2-4 page script, designs, concept art, etc. and they will choose the top 20 ideas and give each filmmaker $5,000 to make their films. Contestants then have 5 weeks to deliver their final project. The final winner will receive $15,000, adjudged the best by visitors to the filmaka.com site.

I know that this schedule and budget is insane from an animation point of view, but with some fabulous colleagues who have all shown interest in helping me, I think its not impossible. (Especially as we're all on a summer break from classes at DigiPen.)

Peter Moehrle's beautiful initial concept piece.

Anyway, as you can see, for the pitch I came up with a preliminary central character (in my mildly 'Miyazaki mood') with the background concept art being produced by Peter Moehrle, also teaching at DigiPen. The organizers haven't said yet when the 20 awards will be announced, or even when the 5 week's production time starts. But we're all down on our stating blocks, just waiting to go!

Needless to say, I'll report back here if we hear anything. (Well, perhaps only if its 'good' news!)

Tony. :^{)}=-