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@andrewgarrettsworks
Putting the power of the Internet to work! This spring, I am going to talk with investors and producers about projects including multiple-award-winning animated feature screenplay LOCAL SUGAR at The Financing Forum for Kids Content in Malmö, Sweden. I am accredited--the doors are open. Unfortuna...
"Only In America" - A true story of the 60s
Hello, all! My first live-action screenplay "Only In America", co-written with my friend Arty Finkelstein, is now available to read at:
http://www.animation-writer.com/OnlyInAmerica.pdf
It's the story of a young man shoved violently, out of spite, into the U.S. Army at the height of the Vietnam War. They know he doesn't belong, but can't figure how to get him out.
Please let me know what you think!
"Local Sugar" and "A Whisker Past Midnight" on Facebook!
Hello, all! I've been posting some of my more recent news at Facebook when it's on specific projects--please check out the pages for "Local Sugar" and "A Whisker Past Midnight", and help spread the word!
http://www.facebook.com/localsugarmovie
http://www.facebook.com/ww2thriller
Thanks!
Just a random note: I'm now signed up and available through http://www.freelancer.com and http://www.voices.com as a voice-over artist. My one released title so far was a casual game for Windows, "Pirates of the Atlantic"--I was the pirates. You can check out that game at http://www.kristanix.com/pirates/ .
I've been doing funny voices for a while but I only noticed recently. If you need me to do any for the record--any record--I'll give it a shot!
50 posts! More to come!
I entered Disney's Frozen Norway Getaway for a chance to win a Frozen inspired trip for 4 to Norway!
And my daughter made short work of Olaf!
The World Animation & VFX Summit 2013 -- 'short' recap
Hello, all! If any of you are as fascinated as I am by the nuts and bolts of animation--and getting it distributed after it's made--then you were either at this year's edition of The World Animation & VFX Summit, or needed to be.
It was a big trip for me (Tulsa is a ways from Marina Del Rey). And just running down the list of attendees and the projects they have been involved with would keep me busy long into the night.
The VFX guys from Pacific Rim were there to dissect the exhaustive layers of water, light, debris, metal, reflections, you name it, that went into every shot. The people who made the snow (and clothes, and hair, and...) in Disney's "Frozen" told us how they did it (yes, they have some new tricks and use all the old ones). We got to hear how the menagerie of food animals in "Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2" came to life, and even some of the ideas that were "left over".
Animation voice legend Tom Kenny was the MC at the opening night party--and voice legend _of legends_ June Foray received a lifetime achievement award. At 96, she's got a Rocky and Bullwinkle short coming out next year and shows no sign of stopping!
I took any opportunity I could to listen to what foreign producers were looking for, and the often arcane rules of co-production (tax breaks, nation of origin) for very personal reasons, as I have had more luck getting companies outside the U.S. to read my own screenplays.
Perhaps as valuable as the panels were the chances to rub elbows with animation professionals and enthusiasts at the meals and parties throughout the Summit--invariably, I found people to be friendly, open, and personable. Quick tips: when people are clumped up listening to someone--be a part of that clump! But also link up with other people stumbling around looking lost, and spend as much (or more) time listening as talking. You will hear war stories, cautionary tales, and insights that don't fit into any other format.
On the optional tour day, we visited three busy production offices--one involved with VFX, one with features, and one focused on television. In the tour, it seemed there was a continuation of a running theme throughout the Summit: it was interesting how often these lines blurred between distribution channels, and how work in one specialty could branch out--a successful feature spawning television series, or as noted in an earlier panel, a series getting a first or second life online.
As the level of omission in my current short post is nearly criminal, please check out the topics and speakers from this year's summit at:
http://animationmagazine.net/summit
I sincerely hope that the Summit continues as a yearly event and that I can attend again with new projects and goals in mind next time--I certainly brought back some new ways of thinking, after getting a closer look at animation production.
Thanks again to Claire-Dee Lim, the rest of the Animation Magazine crew, and the fine folks at the California Yacht Club for making it an intimate, humbling, and memorable few days.
First world problems--running out of places to put laurels on the poster! Don't worry, I'll figure it out.
This poster is by Ann Smith. Two big contest results since then, but this is the poster that went out (in postcard form) at the New Media Film Festival. Send me your name and address to [email protected] and I'll mail you one! If I get twenty requests or more, I'll get a bigger version printed out and mail a rolled copy to a random person. Get typing!
hey im an upcoming animation writer and I was wondering if you knew any agencies that'll help me produce an action cartoon
Hey there!Well, best probably to tell me everything you have tried so far. "Agencies" is a strange word; I immediately think of literary agencies, specifically like Montiero Rose Dravis, which I wish was taking on new writers like you and I--but isn't. Get a guide to literary agents, specifically screenplay agents. Also get a guide to independent producers. Find out who is taking queries. Are you into TV or film? I'm film. They are both hard in general to break in to but I hear there are more opportunities in TV, besides shorter form animation has possibilities for webisodes, YouTube, and so on. Lately I have been entering screenplay contests and working with an animation student who is developing one of my scripts. I would be glad to tell you more about my attempts so far.
Contest Winner Interview at MovieBytes!
Hey, guys and gals! I have an interview up at MovieBytes thanks to Local Sugar’s win at the StoryPros Awards!
http://www.moviebytes.com/ContestDetail.cfm?InterviewID=689&ContestNumber=2224&InterviewsTab=TRUE
Local Sugar - Semi-finals, 2013 Creative World Awards!
Still kicking! Louisiana bayou fable "Local Sugar" has moved on to the Semi-Finals of the Creative World Awards! http://creativeworldawards.com/awards2010.php
Live action feature script "Only In America"--Official selection, Oaxaca FilmFest!
The live-action Vietnam War-era screenplay "Only In America", which I co-wrote with and about my friend Arty Finkelstein, has been made an official selection of the 2013 Oaxaca FilmFest!
I am currently working out travel arrangements and hope to make it to the festival; I also hope Arty can make it there. His story deserves to be told, and it was a new and rewarding experience to work with a true life story. It really was stranger than fiction!
http://www.oaxacafilmfest.com/2013/f01.php
"Local Sugar" - Quarterfinalist (so far) in PAGE International Screenwriting Awards!
More good news on "Local Sugar"!!!
http://pageawards.com/past-winners/2013-winners/2013-quarter-finalists/
The 6th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest over $30,000.00 in CASH & PRIZES plus invaluable promotion to the entertainment industry.
"Local Sugar" takes 1st Place in the Family/Teen/Animation category! WOOHOO!!!
No color for this one yet. This is Rowley. He is a frog to know, so you can give a whistle and warn all good folk that trouble has raised its bumpy, warty, scheming head. Art by fiverr artist Violinagin.
Bucky, Sugarville's eager-beaver paperboy / budding entrepreneur/ constant schemer, from "Local Sugar". Art by fiverr artist Violinagin.
Deputy Tib, a new wrinkle on law enforcement, from "Local Sugar". Occasionally handcuffs himself to immobile objects on accident. Art by fiverr artist Violinagin.