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Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema

WFAC

The fifth annual Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema is taking south-eastern Ontario by storm this weekend.

I’m very excited because Frames Per Second magazine is sending me to cover the event. I’ll be interviewing directors and animators and posting updates regularly to FPS and Drawn! throughout the week-end.

Highlights of the festival include a Kihachiro Kawamoto retrospective, which includes a series of shorts as well as a screening of his 2003 feature, Winter Days.

Veteran animator, Mike Nguyen will also be speaking at the event. Nguyen was supervising animator on The Iron Giant. Other credits include: The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Quest for Camelot, Osmosis Jones, and The Road to El Dorado.

The schedule for this year’s festival includes:

Thursday, November 17th, 2005
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (Japan)
Terkel In Trouble (Denmark)

Friday, November 18th, 2005
Frank and Wendy (Estonia)
The District! (Hungary)

Saturday, November 19th, 2005
Alosha Popovich and Tugarin the Serpent (Russia)
Fragile Machine, free admission (USA)
Mind Game (Japan)

Sunday, November 20th, 2005
Strings (Norway)

If you’re a Drawn! reader, come up and say ‘hello’. I’ll be the guy with the name tag and the iBook.

  • http://www.hftw.freewebspace.com/ HFTW

    I’ve read your blog for quite some time. Thanks so much! You introduced me to Chris Appelhans, and for that, I am very thankful.

    Got a neat vector art site for you; this lady has incredible skill.

    http://sofiveminutesago.org/

    You can do a post on it or something… she deserves some recognition :-)

    Best of luck at the Animation Festival! My friend’s grandmother helped with the coloring for Quest for Camelot, as well as Osmosis Jones. Good movies…

  • http://www.hftw.freewebspace.com/ HFTW

    I’ve read your blog for quite some time. Thanks so much! You introduced me to Chris Appelhans, and for that, I am very thankful.

    Got a neat vector art site for you; this lady has incredible skill.

    http://sofiveminutesago.org/

    You can do a post on it or something… she deserves some recognition :-)

    Best of luck at the Animation Festival! My friend’s grandmother helped with the coloring for Quest for Camelot, as well as Osmosis Jones. Good movies…

  • Michael B

    Hey ‘drawn.ca’ how about redesigning your page totally!
    Get rid of the all encompassing GRAY side bars,
    they are driving me nuts! Having said that,
    the Waterloo Festival has got some great stuff.

  • Michael B

    Hey ‘drawn.ca’ how about redesigning your page totally!
    Get rid of the all encompassing GRAY side bars,
    they are driving me nuts! Having said that,
    the Waterloo Festival has got some great stuff.

  • JohnK

    Do you know who drew the robot artwork on the Waterloo Festival banner above?

  • JohnK

    Do you know who drew the robot artwork on the Waterloo Festival banner above?

  • http://www.lealea.net/ Lea

    Hi JohnK… :-) The robot artwork was done by the amazing Robin Chyo (http://www.robin-chyo.com/). The art direction and print design for the campaign was done by moi. :-) David Ma adapted some of my designs to work for the website (he also coded the site).

  • http://www.lealea.net/ Lea

    Hi JohnK… :-) The robot artwork was done by the amazing Robin Chyo (http://www.robin-chyo.com/). The art direction and print design for the campaign was done by moi. :-) David Ma adapted some of my designs to work for the website (he also coded the site).

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