Katarzyna Depa moved to the industrial region of Silesia, Poland, four years ago to study. She’s young and delicate, and doesn’t fit the typical archetype of a Polish miner—but she spends her days unearthing the mineral so that she can mold it into elegant, handmade jewelry. “Coal has its own nature and doesn’t cooperate with…
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Film: Paris Day & Night
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Film: Tuesday, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Houdini
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On Tuesday at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Houdini @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Houdini stars Adrien Brody, Kristen Connolly, and Evan Jones in a story about “the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to…
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Sunday Animation: Batz
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Film: First Full Trailer for Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens
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Sunday Animation: We Need to Talk About Alice
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GOOD BOOKS: "We Need To Talk About Alice" from Plenty on Vimeo. (See all the process, character design, style frames, at plenty.tv/work/good-books-we-need-to-talk-about-alice ) “We need to talk about Alice” was commissioned by New Zealand based agency String Theory and created to be part of Good Books’ “Great Writers Series,” a collection of short films made…
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Dark Disney: The Real Stories Behind Popular Disney Films
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Sunday Animation: Giant Robots from Outer Space
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Film – Children of Men: Don’t Ignore The Background
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Sunday Animation: Twelve Principles of Animation (Squash & Stretch, Anticipation)
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Alan Becker has a video series based on the twelve principles of animation of animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. These principles, and Becker’s series about them, show how much thinking goes into even simple animated films. Here are the first two principles, as Becker presents them – Squash & Stretch Anticipation
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Film: If The Cuckoo Don’t Crow
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Film: Vancouver Never Plays Itself
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Sunday Animation: Glen Keane Draws in Virtual Reality
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2015 Future of StoryTelling Summit Speaker: Glen Keane Animator, The Little Mermaid, Tarzan, Beauty and the Beast, and Duet Keane’s VR painting is created in Tiltbrush: www.tiltbrush.com Over nearly four decades at Disney, Glen Keane animated some the most compelling characters of our time: Ariel from The Little Mermaid, the titular beast in Beauty and…