2011 festival review

Festival Host, Sylvie Bosustow,

Announces one of the 14 programs

PR Director, Alexis Williams became

the “backbone” of AniMazSpot 2011

One of the most popular areas during the breaks was the Autographed Books Sale table, with books signed by animation luminaries, from Pixar to UPA, to DVDs from Acme, and prints from the DreamWorks Moonshine book.

There was always something great

to drink, nibble on, or chow down on

It’s taken three years for AniMazSpot to
finally get some well deserved recognition.

Larry Loc invites audence member

to come up on stage and explore

his stop motion tool kit

Christophe Lautrette moderates the DreamWorks’ Moonshine book program

Part of the contingent of Disney VoluntEARS, who helped pitch in

Christina Rooney introduced her
children to the art of animation

Awards Presenter, Mike Kazaleh and Classic Cartoon curator,

Steve Stanchfield chat in lobby

Award Presenters, Ken Priebe (VanArts) and Tom Sito (USC) chat after Awards Ceremony

Mitch Rochon takes Tour to Mulit-plane camera room and other spots on the Disney lot.

Fred Crippen gives a Tour of his

historic Pantomime Pictures studio

Team member, Terry Wilson, with Presenter, Larry Loc

Larry Loc creates a full armature during his Stop Motion presentation

Team Leader, Alexis Williams, and Ucla

Archives Presenter, Tony Best, convene

Duke’s Malibu proves to be a perfect place to

Kick Off the Third Annual AniMazSpot 2011

Mark Kirkland guides festival goers on his personal tour of The Simpsons Animation

Festival Director, Tee Bosustow, gathers festival goers for the Woodbury Universiaty Tour

Team Members, Gwen Arreola and Kryzzalia Lopez take a break at the Ticket Desk between Programs.

AniMazSpot 2011 Festival / Tours / Party Review

AniMazSpot 2011 Animated Shorts Winners and Distinguished Presenters

Brendan Clogher & Christina Manrique

Bozu Bronze trophy

Best of Festival Winners

Photos and Credits for the Festival Weekend of 14 Animation Programs, Animation Chats at Breaks, AniMazSpot Awards, plus, Free Studio Tours, and a Kick Off Party at Duke’s Malibu.

Winners and Presenters (in order of presentation)

Best Student Short: Dr. Edward Cliff

The Show by Rebecca Hayes (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)

Best First Animated Short: Sharon Wu

Orizuru - Paper Crane by Andy Cheung

Best Animation for Children: Bill Matthews

The Strange Tale of Billy Barker by Jana Johnson

Best Animated Foreign Short: Chistophe Lautrette

5 Minutes Each by Vojin Vasovic (Serbia)

Best Achievement in Story: Frank Gladstone

Two Miles From Home by Temris Ridge

Best Achievement in Humor: Ken Priebe

Under The Bed by Patrick Mallek

Best Achievement in Techniques: Jack Bosson

Frames by Martin Thoburn

Best Character Design: Mike Kazaleh

The Epiplectic Bicycle by Lauren Horoszewski

Best Overall Design: Mike Kazaleh

Lek’s Paradox by Nell Kingma

Best Non-Verbal Communication: Bill Dennis

Amour Robotic by Caitlin Major & Matthew Hoddy

Best Non-Narrative Animation: Bill Dennis

Star Cross by Ted Wiggin

Best Comment on an Issue of Our Times: Tony Best

Where Do Babies Come From? by Kurt Snyder

Best of Festival - third: Tom Sito

Grandpa Looked Like William Powell by David Levy

Best of Festival - second: Dave Brain

Spirit of the Bluebird by Xstine Cook & Jesse Gouchey

Best of Festival - Bozu Bronze trophy: Tee Bosustow

Photographs by Brendan Clogher & Christina Manrique

Thursday Third Annual Kick Off Party

11am to 4:00 - at Duke’s Malibu

Friday Tours (and Tour Guides) First Day

10am - Disney Animation Archives by Doug Engalla

1pm - Pantomime Pictures, tour by Fred Crippen

3pm - Gnomon Visual Arts, tour by Jason Mendoza

Saturday, Festival Programs (and Presenters) First Day

9am - Nomination Screening of Best Student shorts, and more

10:30 - Award Winning Animation from India by Bill Dennis

Noon - Acme Filmworks’ Cream of the Crop by Dan Sarto

(lunch break)

2pm - Stop Motion on a Shoestring by Larry Loc

3:30 - Feature Film Animation Effects by Rob Nederhorst

(dinner break)

5:30 - OMG, it’s Godfrey, Bob Godfrey Tribute by Ken Priebe

9pm - Nomination Screening of Best of Festival, and more

Sunday, Festival Programs (and Presenters) Second Day

9am - Nomination Screening of Best Foreign shorts, and more

10:30 - DreamWorks’ Moonshine Book by Christophe Lautrette

Noon - Magoo Makes News by Tee Bosustow, Courtesy of Sony

(lunch break)

2pm - 25 Glorious Years of Pixar by Dave Brain, Courtesy of Pixar

3:30 - Rare Animated Television Promos by Tony Best, Ucla Archives

5pm - Winner’s Circle with Sijia Luo, Adrián Garcia and Eliza Gardner

(buffet reception)

6:30 - Closing Night Awards Ceremony and Winners Screening

moderated by Sylvie Bosustow

Monday Tours (and Tour Guides) Second Day

11am - Woodbury University, Animation by Dori Littel-Herrick

2pm - Disney Studio lot by Mitch Rochon

4pm - The Simpsons by Mark Kirkland

6:30 - Nickelodeon by Manuel Grijalva

AniMazSpot Entrants Attending Festival:

Christina Manrique, Brendan Clogher, Adrian Garcia, Eliza Gardner,

Rebecca Olson, Ting Tey, Cathy Karol, Casey Pyke, Yi-Jen Chen,

2011 Year-Long Review and Comments Panel:

Bill Matthews, Paul Dopff, Lenny Graves, Sharon Wu,

Nancy Beiman, Silvina Cornillón, Paul Wells, Jack Bosson,

Malcolm Turner, Jim Keeshen, Frank Mouris, Monique Renault,

Carolina López Caballero, Weiling Guo, Larry Loc, Kine Aune,

2011 Year-End Special Jury: Michael Sporn, Paul Wells, Sharon Wu,

Jim Keeshen, Nancy Beiman, Kine Aune, Larry Loc, Ed Desroches,

Festival Director: Tee Bosustow

Director of Publicity: Alexis Williams

Promotions Coordinator: Dave Brain

Festival Intro Film: Gwendolynn Arreola

AniMazSpot Co-Founder: Bob Bunes

Production Manager: Tina Fallah

Media Coordinator: Terry Wilson

Festival Host: Sylvie Bosustow

Voice of AniMazSpot: Ed Stevens

Bozu Bronze Trophy Design: Larry Loc

Juggler Character Design: Lou Romano

Posters & New Logo Designs: Karen Reynoso

Original Logo Designs: Joe Sikoryak and Ellen Moon Lee

Woodbury Support: Dori Littell-Herrick & Yvonne Correa

Duke’s Support: Madelina Silva, Eric Rau, Rob Pinney,

and Gustavo Coronado

Non Profit Board of Directors: Tee Bosustow, Bob Bunes,

Dave Brain, Bill Matthews, Jack Bosson, Tim Baskerville,

Bill Dennis, Sylvie Bosustow, Christyne Byron,

(Let us know if we’ve forgotten anyone)

Here’ a List of almost everyone involved

in making AniMazSpot 2011 a Success

Festival Events with Presenters and Tour Guides

and Still More

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We began by entering the

Moana Room at Duke’s Malibu

Bob Givens, 30s animator from Disney, UPA, and many others

Fred Crippen stops during Pantomime Pictures Tour to sign cels and matching drawings of a recent commercial production.

Jason Mendoza lead the Gnomon Visual Arts Tour including their large Green Screen stage.

Animation Festival Goers draw pictures as the chat on the festival patio during a break

Festival goers enjoy the ocean view at Duke’s Malibu, awaiting their “luau”

Moana Luau Buffet

Parmesan & Herb Crusted Opah

Island Spiced Chicken

Stir-Fried Vegetables

Field Greens Salad

Roasted Garlic Potatoes

Fresh Baked Sourdough Bread

Banana Macadamian Nut Muffins

Desert

Hula Pie

Tee and Terry show off their Hawaiian shirts

Gwen and Ting soak up some

sun and sea breezes

Gwen Arreola ready to greet festival goers

Steve Stanchfield, Ken Priebe

and, Larry Loc converse

Jack Bosson talks animation with

Tony Best and Alexis Williams.

Nominee, Eliza Gardern and friend Tania van den Broek display sign that greeted them at LAX

The next day Tee went on CNN to talk about AniMazSpot 2011 ...

Sylvie Bosustow presents the next program presenter, Larry Loc

The Winner’s Circle brings back 2010 winner’s to review what’s happened since

Many audience member said it was the best festival they’d been to

Dave Brain introduces the 25 Years

of Pixar Shorts program

Award Winners and Presenters settle in for

the final group photo (see above for final)

Tee Bosustow introduces the

final Nomination Screening

Dori Littel-Herrick, Dean of Woodbury University Animation, starts a tour of

her state of the art animation school

Mitch Rochon guides our Tour through the hallowed halls of Walt Disney Studios

Festival Goers pose outside Pantomime Pictures with legend, Fred Crippen and the cels he’s just signed for all of us

Mark Kirkland pauses on his Simpsons Tour to pose with Eliza and Tee

It’s a Kodak moment with Seven

(two seen here) dwarfs, and one Walt,

on the Disney lot in Burbank

The second Disney Tour was at Disney Animation Research Library, which houses archives dating back to the 20s.

Mark Kirkland helps us understand why the Simpsons is such an enduring series.

Manuel Grijalva was a volunteer on AniMazSpot 2010, this year he’s working at Nickelodeon,

and gave us a great tour, with a relaxing chat

in the commissary, or last event of the festival.

With all the state of the art equipment,

Woodbury has a traditional hand-drawing room too

And, here’s the stop motion room at Woodbury, even more interesting after Larry Loc’s Festival presentation

Ting Tey signs the Gnomon Visual Arts

guest book, not with her name, but with

a drawing, like everyone else

Team member, Terry Wilson, takes a load off his feet and a custom made Nickelodeon couch. The relaxing end of the five-day AniMazSpot 2011 festival and tours.

CNN interview:

From a relaxed pre-interview and a half-hour on-camera interview, this short edit was aired in October 2011 on the Southern California CNN cable network.

Click this panel to view the interview on our “Media” page.

Overview:

First are just a few stills of our various events, shot by Terry Wilson, Sally Benson, Alexis Williams, Dave Brain, Jasmine Silva, Kryzzalia Lopez, and Tee Bosustow, highlights from the Dukes Malibu Kick-off party, the Festival program events, and the free Animation Studio Tours.

Duke Malibu:

Here’s a few photos from our Kick-Off party to celebrate the third year of our festival and feedback project.

Woodbury:

Woodbury University's Theater lobby and patio were the places where festival goers met to chat between programs, buy autographed animation books, draw on the paper table covers, and, of course, eat.

Festival Programs:

Inside the theater the highlight for many were the actual programs by animation professionals, 14 programs this year, including; 25 Years of Pixar Shorts, Award Winning Animation from India, OMG, It’s Godfrey (a tribute to Bob Godfrey, DreamWorks’ “after-hours Moonshine book, Rare TV Promos presented from the UCLA Film Archives, Feature Effects presented by Gnomon Workshop, Magoo Makes News thanks to Sony Pictures, our annual Winners’ Circle, with AniMazSpot 2010 winners, and a live demonstration of how to produce your own stop-motion animation on a shoestring. There were also 3 screenings of
the nominated shorts in a dozen categories, and finally the Awards Ceremony culminating in the Bozu Bronze trophy going to the Best of Festival winner.

Free Tours:

A new addition to the AniMazSpot festival program, the tours seem like a natual for such a huge animation community. This year we started with tours of Disney, Nickelodeon, The Simpsons, Pantomime, Gnomon, Woodbury, and Disney ARL, the research library on the glendale lot.