http://animwatch.animationblogspot.com NEWS AND VIEWS FROM EDITOR STEVE OGDEN Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:10:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well. You might be wondering what I've been up to since shutting down AnimWatch. The answer is that I'm putting all that time and energy to use developing my own Sci-Fi animated adventure series Moon Town. For more details, including a weekly podcast and a production blog, click HERE. Tell ... http://animwatch.animationblogspot.com/2008/04/20/moon-town/ As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end, and so it is with AnimWatch. For the past four and a half years, I have tried to provide a place that took independent animation seriously, but found myself speaking to a mostly empty room. In the past year, ... http://animwatch.animationblogspot.com/2007/12/31/all-good-things-the-end-of-animwatch/ We've added a film profile and a feature article to AnimWatch.com. The profile talks a little bit about how the film was made, and the feature article is an in-depth interview with Lucas Martell, the director of the film, in which he talks about how the film came to be in ... http://animwatch.animationblogspot.com/2007/10/21/pigeon-impossible/ Keith Lango's "Secret Joys of Myopia" was one of the first films we profiled here at AnimWatch. Not long afterward, Keith suffered a perfect storm of bad luck, lost the film's data and backups all at the same time, and was forced to stop working on it. It's been years, but ... http://animwatch.animationblogspot.com/2007/10/17/keith-langos-secret-joys-of-myopia/ I took a break from my Crunch schedule at work to put out Podcast #7, by popular demand. So many people had been asking whether I was ever going to do another one, that I figured I'd better get on with it. FEATURE: Interview with Lucas Martell about his upcoming film, ... http://animwatch.animationblogspot.com/2007/10/16/animwatch-podcast-7-now-live/ Could you use a solid, longer clip of character animation in your portfolio? Of course you could. As fun as these little ... http://animwatch.animationblogspot.com/2007/10/13/animclips-portfolio-master-series/ There are currently five AnimWatch profile films up at the AnimWatch Theatre video portal. There will be more films next week, but for now, you can watch: - Doll Face by Andy Huang - After You by Christopher Cordingley - A Barbaric Tale by Richard Vaucher" - Day Off the Dead by Lee Lanier ... http://animwatch.animationblogspot.com/2007/10/13/animwatch-theatre-is-live/ Lucas Martell's Pigeon Impossible is exactly the kind of film that made me start AnimWatch. Here is a beautiful film under construction, and it is so fun to watch it develop. Every screen capture, every test animation, every glimpse behind the curtain is one more jolt of excitement. Lucas has been ... http://animwatch.animationblogspot.com/2007/10/06/new-film-profile-pigeon-impossible-by-lucas-martell/ The AnimWatch Theatre video player is in beta. Go to the MAIN SITE and click on THEATRE in the menu bar. Right now, it's running a bunch of stuff from the AnimClips Challenge. I'd be interested to hear your comments here as we finalize the player. http://animwatch.animationblogspot.com/2007/10/06/animwatch-theatre-in-beta/ You know how it is. You're watching a film develop. Maybe it's been a couple of years. Or 5. Sooner or later, you just quit stopping by the development site. And if the film ever crosses your mind, you just think, "Yeah, that thing's dead. What could he be doing ... http://animwatch.animationblogspot.com/2007/09/20/bunny-situation-by-michael-sormann/