PENCIL LINES: FESTIVAL AFTERMATH

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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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FESTIVAL AFTERMATH

Sorry for the prolonged absence over the past month at this end!

The main culprit is the fact that I've been heavily involved in this year's "2D OR NOT 2D Animation Festival" which occurred last weekend in Seattle. Needless to say, the whole event was a huge success, the climax of which was the screening of the animated masterwork, "Secret of Kells". Director Tomm Moore and art director Ross Stewart were there to introduce the film and to answer questions and answers after the film's long standing ovation at the very end. They were also presented with the "Roy E. Disney Award" for their exceptional contribution to animation. The film will enjoy its US distribution debut on St. Patrick's Day, 2010. Further details of the festival can be found at the dedicated blogsite by clicking HERE.

Part of the joy in running an animation festival is meeting all the fabulous talent that comes to the event and who clearly show their appreciation in being part of it! This year was not exception. At the end of the event, 'Kells" director Tomm Moore presented me with a copy a the graphic novel of the film, published in France.

Most exciting of all was the hand-drawn dedication and signature on the inside page that Tomm generously created himself...

It was a great festival and a great gift. Now I have to live up to it and start work on the film teaser I'm working on with a number of fabulous animators and artists, for the first feature film the Animaticus Foundation would like to make and apprentice talented post-graduate students on... "The Adventures of Uncle Lubin".

But more of that later!

Tony. :^{)}=-