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Toon Boom Animation Inc. and the French Animation Association (AFCA) announced the launch of Animation Celebration, an animation contest for the Web, open to creative minds worldwide.

The young italian digital filmmaker, Claudio Castelli, participates as the unique italian candidate to the annual award for movies held in Monte Carlo.

Sony Pictures Animation released the trailer for their first feature-length CGI animated movie: Open Season.

I can’t wait to watch it. Why? Read how this animated short movie has been commented: “Visually mesmerizing - part Jules Verne, part early David Lynch - an incredibly atmospheric and original piece of animation. - A visually impressive piece that ingeniously combines many animation techniques.”. Uhm?

Visit the imaginary two cities of Europe through an interactive journet driven by your mouse. And Macromedia Flash, of course. Beautiful and evocative graphics makes you want to visit those place for real.

Mars Explorer by Marco Genovesi. Digital illustration (3D computer graphics, digital painting, compositing)
CG Channel published an article on self-promotion tips and guidelines for digital artists. There are suggestions about what to do when creating an artist’s website: avoid Flash, use a simple and usable user interface for navigating your image / animation portfolio, carefully select [...]

A very good resource about the history of digital graphics and animation. Utilized for an academic course the website I am suggesting is rich of timelines, anectodes, stories about famous people of 3D CG and a lot of external references.
thanks to Cristian Contini
Visit: A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation

source Pixar Animation Studios
Pixar Animation Studios just released online the first sneak peak of the animated short movie One Man Band to be publicly released in theathers together with Cars.
Watch One Man Band online.

Animated News says:
The Independent Animation Channel will be going live on July 4, 2005. The site, which claims to be “the only animation channel that runs just like a real TV station, via the internet, will be streaming video 24 hours, 7 days a week”. Taking only original content to which the creators keep all [...]

Source: Disney
With the U.S. release of Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle next week, the Museum of Modern Art in New York will be screening Studio Ghibli classics for the month of June, including My Neighbor Totoro (June 4 and 25), Grave of the Fireflies (June 5) and Princess Mononoke (June 17 and 30). The [...]