Missouri State Student Films Being Screened At The Moxie

Sporky short film

From the Facebook event page for the evening: Moxie Cinema is excited to present a collection of short films from students in the Media, Journalism and Film Department at MSU. A portion of the night’s proceeds will help underwrite their scholarship in digital filmmaking. The films to be shown are: 1. Overcome – 90 seconds [...]

Missouri State Animation Exhibition Friday April 9th

The Computer Animation Graduating Artists are showing their senior projects April 9th at the Plaster Student Union theater. The artists include Rachael Norton, Matt Arnold, Simon Goodwin, Paul Drewitz and Gerald Leenerts. It’s always an amazing display and an excellent evening and with the HD upgrade the theater has undergone, it will match the theater [...]

Summer Of The Spy Completes Production

Summer of the Spy production shot

If the trailer they just released is anywhere close to the reality, I’m really looking forward to seeing this Missouri State University student production. SUMMER OF THE SPY The story centers around a young boy who escapes the routines of life by dreaming of being a spy. He is dropped off at one of his [...]

The Future is Here!: Digital Video Production comes of age before our eyes

Warehouse 13 screen shot

Since the release of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (1999), digtal filmmaking has grown to become as useful a tool as makeup or costumes. Although there were some who thought the look of the film was a bit off, one cannot deny the impact digtal filmmaking has had on the industry. Now we [...]

Missouri State University Senior Animation Exhibition in April

Sporky short film

The Computer Animation Graduating Artists are showing their senior projects April 9th at the Plaster Student Union theater. The artists include Rachael Norton, Matt Arnold, Simon Goodwin, Paul Drewitz and Gerald Leenerts. It’s always an amazing display and an excellent evening and with the HD upgrade the theater has undergone, it will match the theater [...]

Alma

alma

Recently shown at the St Louis International Film Festival, hat tip to Jessica Brother’s for the pointer.

Alma is Rodrigo Blaas’ first short film as a director. Originally from Spain, Rodrigo Blaas has worked in animation for more than ten years, in Spain and in the United States.

The Art Of The Title Sequence

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Remember when your heart sank just a little when you realized the Pink Panther movie wasn’t a cartoon? Then, only a few years later, seeing Edward Gorey’s eerily fantastic opening to “Mystery!” capped with Vincent Price’s name on a headstone had your head spinning at the thought of the kind of stories those etchings could [...]

Using Anime To Get Your Point Across

Business Week recently looked at a Japanese governmental body that chose to use Anime to break through the crowd and ensure their research was considered: What’s the point of toiling on a report nobody will read? A few months ago, Japan’s Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries Ministry tried something different. It hired Tokyo design studio Groovisions—a [...]