Full Disclosure: I am an employee of the Animation Guild IATSE Local 839, so what I'm posting here is a matter of public record. Hopefully, a majority of our members will vote on these contracts, one way or another.
https://animationguild.org/ratify22/
https://perfectunion.us/iatse-animators-demand-a-new-deal/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/animation-union-pushes-production-workers-strategy-labor-katie-kilkenny-1235164936/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/animation-guild-contract-deal-reached-long-negotiations-1235055769/
https://variety.com/2022/biz/news/animation-guild-amptp-deal-1235280032/
Sunday, June 19, 2022
The Animation Guild's tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP)
Monday, June 06, 2022
Innovations in Animation - Part 5 - Fever The Ghost - SOURCE (official music video)
Here's some amazing work by Felix Colgrave. Born in Tasmania, now based in Melbourne, Colgrave blows the viewers' minds in the most unexpected, and dare I say it, charming way. Felix has a background in TV ads, music videos and video game cinematics, but he presently is focused on his own work. Pulsing to the music of the band Fever The Ghost, this little old man and his dragon, "Long Morrison", travel to the center of the earth. Their mission: turn the world into a party planet! But then, it looks like it's just their job, day in and day out.
https://www.facebook.com/fevertheghost
From what I've read, Colgrave uses After Effects to animate his fantastic art. Virtually all of the exposure of his independent work comes from using the world wide web. As far as I can see, no TV, film or DVD gave his work any publicity. There's some Monty Python surrealism, with even a touch of Moebius in this short. While there's nothing really groundbreaking in Colgrave's techniques, or use of animation technology, I'm putting his work down as an innovation simply from his use of the internet, and the fearlessness of his ideas.
All of which has gained him an audience!
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