by Maija Burnett Associate Director, Character Animation Program at CalArts Disney’s The Princess and the Frog opens nationwide today (Dec. 11) and features the work of many CalArtians, including current…
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Film Scholar Tom Gunning Screens Rare Films at the Bijou
The Unchanging Sea (D.W. Griffith, 1910) Film theorist and scholar Tom Gunning visits CalArts tomorrow evening (Tuesday) to lecture on the topic of Structuring Strategies at the Bijou Theater at…
Continue reading »CalArts Grad Directs Carney’s ‘Love Me Chase Me: The Death and Life of Mr. Green’
The LA-based band Carney just released the first single “Love Me Chase Me” from their upcoming Interscope Records full-length debut, tapping CalArts grad Timothy Garrett (Art BFA 08) to direct…
Continue reading »CalArts Animator in Nickelodeon 2009 Animation Festival
Value Blind from Tahnee Gehm. Tahnee Gehm (Film/Video BFA 12), a CalArts character animation student, has a film currently being featured in the Nickelodeon Animation Festival 2009. Her black-and-white short,…
Continue reading »Tim Burton Retrospective Opens at MOMA
A major retrospective of artist-director Tim Burton (Film/Video 79) opened yesterday at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, featuring more than 700 examples of sketchbooks, concept art, drawings,…
Continue reading »Village Voice Critic Visits REDCAT Tonight, CalArts Tuesday
Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman comes to REDCAT tonight (Monday) to screen then discuss the controversial film Flaming Creatures, a 1963 featurette directed by performance artist Jack Smith. According…
Continue reading »New Book from Film/Video Faculty Asks Readers to ‘Think Outside the Boxoffice’
You’ve shot a pilot for a new Web series. Now what? Filmmaker Jon Reiss (who’s also Film Directing faculty at CalArts’ School of Film/Video) attempts to answer that question and…
Continue reading »Character Animation Assistant Dean Leo Hobaica at Aniwow! 2009 in Beijing
Though he can usually be found in his office or lecturing in the Palace at CalArts, Character Animation Assistant Dean Leo Hobaica Jr. is currently halfway around the world at…
Continue reading »Visiting Artist Joe Ksander: On Animation and Filmmaking
Animator Joe Ksander has worked on a number of acclaimed feature films like Night at the Museum (2006) (animation supervisor); The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the…
Continue reading »Director, Animation Director from 9 at CalArts’ Bijou Theater Tomorrow
CalArts’ School of Film/Video Program in Character Animation is hosting a lecture tomorrow evening at CalArts with Shane Acker (director) and Joe Ksander (animation director) of the feature film 9….
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