The ASIFA Board of Directors decided to take first steps in an advertising campaign that will later be further developed. POSTCARDS The postcard promoting the INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION DAY 2023, with the extremely beautiful illustration of Georges Schwizegebel on the frontside, will be distributed at ASIFA Partner Festivals in Zagreb and Annecy, ASIFA Members will pick them up there and bring them home to their countries for further distribution. Future Plans: Postcards holding the artworks of ASIFA Members from different chapters worldwide are planned, as well as a basic info flyer about ASIFA ..read more

The ASIFA Board of Directors decided to take the first steps in an advertising campaign that will later be further developed. POSTCARDS The postcard promoting the INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION DAY 2023, with the extremely beautiful illustration of Georges Schwizegebel on the frontside, will be distributed at ASIFA Partner Festivals in Zagreb and Annecy, ASIFA Members will pick them up there and bring them home to their countries for further distribution. Future Plans: Postcards holding the artworks of ASIFA Members from different chapters worldwide are planned, as well as a basic info flyer about A ..read more

In 2023 we return with excitement to two of ASIFA’s partner festivals. Come meet with other ASIFA members and members of the ASIFA Board at several occasions at both festivals. We look forward to fostering new connections and communities with our international connections at these great festivals!   Z A G R E B :   Thursday, June 8th, during Festival Picnic (10:00-13:00) A TOAST TO VESNA We will celebrate the huge work for ASIFA as Secretary General, which Vesna Dovnikovic has done with enthusiasmfor the benefit of the international animation community during almost 3 decades. All ..read more

Children in 11 different countries worked with ASIFA Members who are master-teacher animators, using a wide variety of techniques, to create animations around the theme of solutions to climate change. The Animation Workshop Group was founded in 1971 as a group of artist teachers who believe that children can use animation to tell their own stories. Each year, all over the world, students create short films based on a common theme, with a variety of viewpoints, multiple techniques, and rich soundtracks. Nearly 200 students participated in the project, along with over 30 instructors, support sta ..read more

Raoul Servais With a style that ‘blended expressionism and magical realism,’ the filmmaker produced 16 shorts and one feature, including the award-winning ‘Harpya’ and ‘Nocturnal Butterflies;’ he also served as ASIFA president for a decade and founded continental Europe’s first animation training course in 1960 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. Raoul Servais, known as the wizard of Ostend, passed away on Friday, March 17 at his home in Leffinge, West Flanders, Belgium. He was 94. During his long career, he made 16 short films and one feature film, which won numerous awards includin ..read more

The animation industry lost a giant on the 22nd of January with the passing of Bill Dennis at the age of 80 years. During his 30-year career Bill was a key player in the Los Angeles animation scene as well as being a founding cornerstone in the development of Indian animation. Toonz, founded in 1999 in Trivandrum, India by Bill, was originally involved in producing work that was outsourced from the United States and Europe. Under Bill’s leadership as CEO, the studio also began to produce its own original work such as the award-winning television series The Adventures of Tenali Raman. Training ..read more

December 3, 2022 A film titled Away from Home has been entered into festivals recently and received some recognition. This film is not original work. It is a plagiarized version of the animation Snowflake created by Natalia Chernysheva in 2012. It is a shocking theft of a beautiful animation. ASIFA officially asks all festivals to remove the stolen film from their programming, to retract material published on-line that have the wrong title and wrongly credit the plagiarist, and to offer an apology to the original director. Thanks to the help of the animation community, the distributor has alre ..read more

I feel guilty; I should be creating; I have an abstract due. I need to finish this essay. But I’m sitting on the couch, watching Bad Boys for Life and doing a Sudoku puzzle. Earlier, I took an elaborate bath while watching episode six of the final season of The Expanse, mindlessly thumbing through my Instagram feed. I am the dog surrounded by fire; this is fine.    On Fire (2013) Many years ago, I proclaimed myself an artist, and thus I was. I make it, and I talk about it, at conferences and festivals, at schools, and in my head. The worst question you can be asked as an artis ..read more

At the opening ceremony of LIAF, the London International Animation Festival, a powerhouse team of animation artists were represented, awarding the 2022 ASIFA Prize to Caroline Leaf. The award, an original piece of artwork created by an artist who the laureate admires, was created by the animation artist Vera Neubauer, presented to Caroline Leaf by experimental animator Paul Bush, in a surprise on-stage ceremony. Caroline Leaf accepts the 2022 ASIFA Prize from Paul Bush at London International Animation Festival. The ASIFA Prize is considered a Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring a person w ..read more

 The Adventures of an * was released in 1957 as the first animated short film done in collaboration between animation director John Hubley and his spouse, animator Faith Hubley, in their freshly established New York studio, Storyboard. The film was commissioned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of New York with the intention of being released in 1959 on the occasion of the opening of the new museum building designed by the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.     James Johnson Sweeney, a newly appointed director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum1, suggested to the ..read more