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Drawn Animation Festival Signal Film by Bill Plympton..

Bill out did himself on this one.. a great trailer for the opening of our show next week! Enjoy.. Remember the show is on the 14th! Hope to see you there!

Festival of Drawn Animation Trailer.. from Patrick Smith on Vimeo.

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Scribble Junkies Festival of Drawn Animation..

Here's the Facebook event page for you all.. please add me as a friend if we're not already!

 

Image above from Ryan Woodward's "Thought of You"

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FESTIVAL OF DRAWN ANIMATION!!!

Come one, Come all...

 

Some great films by Bill Plympton, Colleen Cox, Rebecca Sugar, Ryan Woodward, David Chai, and MORE!!!

Drawn Animation Festival

The epic screening of the 2D animation festival is fast approaching! If you live anywhere in the NY/New Jersey area, I heartily suggest you make plans to come to this once in a lifetime magnificent event.

It's the brain child of my Scribble Junkies partner Pat Smith, and I think it's a grand idea! We're all turning into digital robots watching Pixar and Dreamworks films. We believe that good drawing and draftsmanship should be celebrated and shown. We've scowered the globe looking for animated shorts that display excellence in drawing skills and storytelling.

The brand new cinema in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the Nighthawk Cinema, has chosen our program to be one of the first on their premiere schedule. The cool thing about this cinema is that you can eat and drink while you watch these gems – and it's been my philosophy that great animation is ALWAYS enhanced by a little alcoholic spirits.

I lecture at a lot of animation and art schools and it seems they are dumping their life drawing programs for computer skills programs. Basically the schools are turning out computer nerds who can't draw.

I remember a story told to me by the great graphic novelist Geoff Darrow. He was in Australia working on the designs for The Matrix. The Wachowski brothers weren't happy with a certain sequence and they asked Geoff to create a new storyboard. Well, as Geoff tells it, he was very busy, so he asked one of his high-priced digital artists to sketch out a new page of storyboard. The guy looked at Mr. Darrow and said, “But I can't draw!”

So tell all your friends and hustle on down to the Nighthawk Cinema on Sunday, August 14 (7pm – cocktail reception – 8:30 – films begin!) and come see Pat and I, plus a number of other animation artists at the first annual 2D Animation Festival!

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Firehose and Natas..

Sorry haven't been posting, i've been working like a crazy person building my house in montauk.. pretending to be a carpenter. anyway, stumbled upon this clip, which probably needs to be viewed monthly.. epic skating to an epic song by firehose.  ciao..