“You must watch Fantastic Mr. Fox, you’ll LOVE it”
This is the line I heard from many people and for some stupid reasons, it took me a long time to actually go check see the movie.
Well, I finally did last weekend and I LOVE IT!
My friends were right! It is the best film in the past 10 years for sure!
I can’t stop thinking about how fun and inspiring that film is.
The pan of Mr. & Mrs. Fox taking a short cut blew my mind. What a blend of dialogue, music, action and fun. My favorite is Kyle the Possum and how charming he is. (How can you not love him?)
I love how his eyes swirl but he will still give a sign to Mr. Fox.
My favorite moment was at the very end, when the gang is dancing in the super market, Kyle is just sliding left to right. You can only do this in stop motion, if this was done in CG, the audience will take it as a mistake.
I had not seen any animated film that really took advantage of animation so much.
It cheated a lot by not showing their feet in walk cycles! I had not seen that in feature films for so long that it was almost refreshing. The techique was so retro that everything seemed unique and different.
What a genius film…..the writing was extremely funny, animation was beautiful and the sets are AMAZING! Amount of details that went into those sets is hard to imagine but every little effort was worth it.

Nina Frenkel & Ru Kuwahata presented “A Survey of Comtenporary Women Animators” for Women In Animation meeting on 5/28.
This is a list of animators and their animations that we talked about.

***Independent Animators***

-Laura Heit
“Look For Me”

-Eun-Ha Paek
“Hunger Like A Wolf”

“Music Video for Alain Mpela’s Vigilance tous Azimuts”
(You can watch under Eun-Ha’s website)

-Martha Colburn

“Myth Labs”
(You can watch parts of her films and interesting “the making of” at her website.)

-Signe Baumane

“Birth”

-Nina Paley

“Sita Sings The Blues”

***Commercial Animators***

-Norma Toraya aka Crankbunny
“Handmade” for Etsy

“Thought Bubble” for United Airlines
(you can watch under Crankbunny’s website)

-Gaelle Denis
“City Paradise”

“Open Science” for Dupont

“Two Worlds” for United Airlines

-Johanne Ste-marie aka Fluorescent Hill
“Try Telling That To My Baby” for The Heavy Blinkers

“Myriad Harbour” for The New Pornographers

***Student Animation***

-Corrie Francis

“Tracks”
“Conversing with Aotearoa”

-Nicole Mitchell
“Zoologic”

-Lizzie Marks
“A Few Of My Favorite Things”

You can also view other students animations done at Parsons Pre-College Academy Summer Intensive course. Enjoy and thank you for coming to our presentation!

“Davy Crockett in Outer Space” won 2nd place in Sponsor’s category! Hooray.
The certificate is amazing this year.
(Designed by Will Krause.)
Thank you for those who voted for our film, and it is very nice to be recognized for what we do.
My personal favorite was “Q&A” by Rauch Brothers.
It won the best of the festival and it totally deserves it.
The story is charming and characters are animated so beautifully.
Congratulations to everybody who won!