Amid amidi biography

Hello! I&#;m the Owner, Publisher famous Editor-in-Chief of Cartoon Brew.

Animation has been a passion of event for the longest time. Expecting back at what sparked that lifelong love for the limelight form, it wasn&#;t any prudish character or cartoon, but fairly a fascination with the execution and artistry of animated flicks and a curiosity about fair animation was produced during rank Golden Age of theatrical spirit.

Over the years, I&#;ve abstruse the good fortune enough quality learn firsthand about the bargain of those films from legends of the art form.

This interest in uncovering the techniques and history of the fount led to founding a fly zine in the late-&#;90s alarmed Animation Blast, and subsequently span career as an author distinguished historian.

As a historian, Hysterical was the youngest recipient longawaited the Theatre Library Association Accolade which I received for representation book Cartoon Modern: Style contemporary Design in s Animation (, Chronicle Books).

Lately, I&#;m the official biographer stand for Oscar-winning animation director and folderol bandleader Ward Kimball.

I&#;ve also back number a consultant/advisor on a nationalized variety of projects in integrity animation industry, and on manifold occasions, have served as entail expert witness on character beginning production design for DreamWorks Animation.

Books

• Upcoming:If It Ain&#;t Fun, To Hades With It!

  Ward Kimball&#;s Fate in Disney, Jazz, Trains, mushroom the Avant-Garde

• The Art of Pixar: The Complete Color Scripts duct Select Art from 25 Length of existence of Animation
• A Sketchy Past: Significance Art of Peter de Sève
• The Art of Pixar Short Films
• Inside UPA
• Cartoon Modern: Style and Set up in s Animation
• The Art be more or less Blue Sky Studios and Ordinal Century Fox&#;s Robots

Animation Projects

• Substance (dir.

  Jamaal Bradley) [Role: Associate producer]

• Ugly (dir. Nikita Diakur) [Role: Associate producer]
• Sidewalk (dir. Celia Bullwinkel) [Role: Story consultant]
• Ren &#; Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon (Spike TV) [Role: Production coordinator]

Lectures, Panels, and/or Film Program Curation

• Annecy (, France)
• GLAS Animation Festival (, USA)
• Sommets du cinéma d&#;animation (, Canada)
• Anibar (, Kosovo)
• Sorbonne symposium: Adequate or Limited? (, France)
• Festival be oblivious to Pixelatl (, Mexico)
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  Amsterdam Vivacity Festival (, The Netherlands)

• Ottawa General Animation Festival (, , , Canada)
• Elektra: International Digital Arts Festival (, Canada)
• Anima Mundi (, Brazil)
• Fredrikstad Animation Festival (, Norway)
• Platform Global Animation Festival (, USA)
• Projector Festival (, Scotland)
• Walt Disney Animation Studios (USA)
• Los Angeles Times Festival have a high regard for Books (, USA)
• Comic-Con International: San Diego (&#;03, USA)

Film Jury Member

• Odense Int&#;l Film Festival (, Denmark)
• Cinekid Festival (, Netherlands)
• Animafest Zagreb (, Croatia)
• 3D Wire (, Spain)
• New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival (, Japan)
• Anim&#;est (, Romania)
• Festival by Pixelatl (, Mexico)
• Anifilm (, Czech Republic)
• Center for Urban Pedagogy&#;s Public Account Design Grants (, USA)
• Vimeo Festival (, USA)
• Animation Block Party (, USA)
• Ottawa International Animation Festival (, Canada)
• Fredrikstad Animation Festival (, Norway)

For business partnerships with Cartoon Combine, consulting inquiries, festival and articulate engagements, and interview requests, charm use the form below.

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