SMFA Animation

Where would we be without Adobe today? How could we possibly manipulate images? Well, in case you have already forgotten--I know I sometimes...

I've been to the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival twice now, and it's given me a tiny peek into how people find work an...

After watching the hand-crafted animations of Caroline Leaf , I felt intrigued. There was something so therapeutic about her work, the color...

The dynamic, beautiful animation When the Day Breaks addresses the emotional turmoil of a young female anthropomorhpic pig character. She wi...

When the Day Breaks is a cartoon animation, with a theme that uses the song, and a plot that uses it as a double-entendre. It begins with...

The thing that I respond to most in A Letter To Colleen is the frankness of the time and place. This could have been any suburban home in A...

In searching the internet for more information on Frank Mouris, I discovered very little past what I already knew of his Oscar-winning anima...

Marv Newland started his animation career in LA with the animated short Bambi Meets Godzilla in 1969. from here he animated commercials for ...

Norm McLaren was born in Stirling Scotland in 1914. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art. His earlier works involved scratching the ename...

Stills from Martha Colburn's "Myth Labs" 2008 Martha Colburn is one of my favorite contemporary animators, and having been ab...

Polish artist Walerian Borowczyk is not too well-known today. Or perhaps he is, though not necessarily for his animated short films. Trained...

Early Czech animators were faced with the misfortune of Soviet censors scrutinizing their work. Michaela Pavlatova was fortunate enough to m...