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EACG:http://www.animation-festivals.com/festivals/epic-acg-fest/ ANNIE FEST:

http://www.animation-festivals.com/festivals/aninetfest/

CHICO: 

http://www.animation-festivals.com/festivals/animation-chico/

LOS ANGELES ANIMATION FESTIVAL: http://www.animation-festivals.com/festivals/los-angeles-animation-festival/

Our video isn’t posting so here is a link: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HxymL4cyWB1_Na3bt4O2VrT_vMVR7Wdc/view?usp=sharing

1.    Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival

2.    Los Angeles International Student Film Festival

3.    Animation Block Party, Brooklyn NY

4.    CineYouth Film Festival, Chicago IL

Three really cool Film festivals to join would be 

Chico Shortz! Film Festival August 11-12th 2018 The Fun Sized Film Fest because its a film festival for fun short films and it is not too far, about 4 hours away. 

BASH on July 8th 2018, because it is local, Bay Area, and many people attend that film festival. 

GLAS Animation Festival takes place every year and is sponsored by big animation studios like cartoon network and nickelodeon. I has already happened this year, but hopefully it is yearly. There are competitions and workshops. 

https://vimeo.com/272288650

DocLAHOMA

GIRAF International Festival of Independent Animation

Amsterdam Lift-Off Film Festival

Blackbird Film Festival

Venice Short Film Festival

U.S. Hollywood International Gold Film Festival

We are very close to moving into the post production process for The Lupalope and have learned a lot about working with 3D stop motion figures along the way. We have completed four scenes with two remaining. Our scenes have combined the top down shooting set up and side view angles using two kinds of character rigs. The first we developed was thicker sculpture wire hanging down the characters’ backs and acting as a third tripod leg, and the other is a wooden frame that is built up around the set and the characters hang down from it like marionette dolls.  The first method is easier to quickly make small smooth movements as the character is grounded and has additional armature to manipulate, but the second method allows for the characters to jump and other physical actions since they do not need to balance on the ground. Planning and building these rigs has been a significant part of our preproduction, running concurrently to some scenes that were already in production, learning that an important component of designing stop motion characters is building them with the action of the scene in mind. Dividing work so that some of us can animate or archive photos or build more props/assets while the other tools were in use by other group members has allowed us to work quickly and efficiently so far.

Photos:

But Aboriginal art, as abstract as it can get, generally tells a story. Many pieces include people, fish, animals, and sometimes weapons all included within a landscape type background. Their use of earthy tones and then strikingly bright color gives the art a more mythical feeling, especially that of the dream art category. 

So what then, is the story I am trying to portray? Why do I enjoy the process of subtracting clay away from a slab and then re-adding it to make something new? Why am I drawn to the earthy red terra cotta clay? Why am I making wall relief sculpture panels that all relate to one another?

When answering these questions I think of certain influential parts of my life:

-my love for and need to be immersed in nature

-my family 

-Uncle Mike and Australian Aboriginal art