Anilogue International Animation Festival 2017: Programme Highlights

The Anilogue International Animation Festival takes place in Budapest from the 29th of November till the 3rd of December 2017. The 15th edition includes 70+ shows and live events, 13 feature length movies, animated concerts and workshops and hundreds of new animations from around the world in seven festival locations across Budapest. The 5-day festival engulfs 2 competitive parts, feature p...

The First Time SIGGRAPH Asia will be Hosted in Thailand, 2017!

The 10th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia will take place in Bangkok, Thailand at The Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC). The annual event, which rotates around the Asian region, attracts the most respected technical and creative people from all over the world who are excited by research, science, art, animation...

Twice the First: Quirino Cristiani and the Animated Feature Film almost available

Italian-born Argentian illustrator and animator Quirino Cristiani has long been recognized (mostly by the efforts of Italian animation scholar Giannalberto Bendazzi himself) as one of the most underrated precursors of animation. He is responsible for, among other, the first-ever feature-length animation film (now lost), the 70-minute political satire in cut-outs El Apostol (1917). Cristiani ha...

Animation, Video Games and Virtual Experience: Sport and the Artifice of Moving Image Media

In 2017, the Animation Academy, National Football Museum and Hotel Football will open The Beautiful Frame, an exhibition and symposium that will explore the relationship between sport and animation, video games and other models of virtual experience. Part of the ‘Beautiful Frame: Animation at the National Football Museum’ Exhibition in Manchester, this symposium brings together scholars...