… to the New/Improved …
Toon In! … to the World of Animation!
The AniMazing Spotlight website is full of information on this year’s festival, coming up in just 3 weeks, September 4 & 5, at Woodbury University, in Burbank. Visit their web site at www.animazspot.com, then click the big white panel at the top of the Home page, with Lou Romano’s Juggler, which he designed exclusively for the festival. Clicking this panel takes you to their Festival page. If you scroll down you see all the festival events, one of which we’ll talk about next, screenings of all the shorts nominated in various categoies, advertising opportunities, collectables to purchase, awards presentations, eateries near by, and more.
But, the highlight for us is the very first “Toon in to the World of Animation” event, outside of this podcast. We are hosting an event on Sunday, from 12:30 to 1:30, in Section 3, called “I Did it My Way“, which features about two dozen of our Toon In interviews, talking about how they got interested in getting into animation. It’s quite fascinating to hear, and see, them talk about the same question, and it gives you a chance to see the people you could only listen to on this podcast. If you decide to attend please come up and say hello. I’ve enjoyed doing these interviews so much, I’d love to meet some of you listeners.
Also, before I sign off, we want to mention once again, that we will soon be getting back to putting up more interviews, after the AniMazing Spotlight Festival, of course. So, look for some new interviews, hopefully well before the end of the year. Needless to say, we’ve been extremely busy, thanks for your patience, your host, Tee Bosustow
On May 31 an auction ends for an original cel from “Ragtime Bear”,
the very first Mr. Magoo cartoon (1949), directed by John Hubley,
and written by Millard Kaufman. Place your Bid on the home page
of the UPApix site at www.upapix.com. Scroll down the red panel
for instructions on how to bid for this piece of movie history
Bidding ends on May 31 at 9pm, Pacific Time
AniMazing Spotlight! has announced the two Second Quarter winners, the funny and inventive comment on ways to save the environment, “The Hybrid Union” by Serguei Kouchnerov from Kiev, Ukraine, and the remarkable experimental short, “The Bellows March” by Eric Dyer from Baltimore, Maryland. Both very different, both award-winning material. They join the first quarter winners, “The Lighthouse” by Velislava Gospodinova from Sofia, Bulgaria, and El Salón México by Paul Glickman and Tamarind King. All four become nominees for Best of Festival early in the fall. There are still two quarters to go, so if it’s like 2009, there will be eight shorts vying for the Best of Festival winner, and this year the winner will receive the new “bozu” bronze trophy being designed and cast by Larry Loc. For more information on all of this, and more, visit our sister site at …
www.animazspot.com
Many of you have been asking when we will add more of our interviews, and we don’t want to make any promises we can’t keep, but if all goes well, we will start adding interviews very soon now. cross fingers and stay tooned.
One of our own, Mike Kazaleh, Episode #11, is the first to submit a cartoon for the $3,000 “Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Energy Independence” book cover contest, for AniMazing Spotlight! As you can see from the last few posts, I’ve totally forgotten how to insert an image. But, if you’d like to see Mike’s “Gas Crisis” cartoon, which he’s entered in the contest, visit the AniMazing Spotlight home page for the image, at …
www.animazspot.com
… There’s still time if you want to enter the contest as well, or enter your latest animated short in our 2010 festival, dedicated exclusively to animated shorts. This year we will be presenting the first Bozu Bronze trophy, designed and sculpted by Larry Loc, to the winner of 2010 Best of Festival.
The Deadline for both the Funny Thing contest, and the Second Quarter animated shorts is March 8,