Ranking in Animacam. How are going the rates?

Voting time continues in Animacam! For now, the competition is leadering in the three categories by Tatián: the tree house in short film, Suona Rosamunda in Multimedia category and Defectuoso in Retrospective. Your votes count, and in the ranking this week, the animation La Competitiva stands as the third most voted in short Film category, while in Multimedia, Los Pavilolos and Los Días de Kräulio follow Suona Rosamond.

Best short film animation

1.- Tatián, la casa del árbol. Josué Jaramillo (Colombia)
2.- Velika Bela Lakrdija (Great White Gag). Vojislav Vukadin (Serbia)
3.- La competitiva. Hernán Mono Cieza & Adriana Delfino Peca (Spain)

Best Multimedia animation

1.- Suona Rosamunda. Enrique Diego Blanco (Spain)
2.- Los Pavilolos v.5. Pako Ortiz (Spain)
3.- Los días de Kräulio. Eduardo Alés (Spain)

Best Retrospective Animation

1.- Defectuoso. Juan Sebastian Díaz Santaella (Colombia)
2.- Joli Dragon. Inma Carpe (Spain)
3.- Le petit chaperon rouge. Inma Carpe (Spain)

Ranking of the most rated films in Animacam

After starting on Friday September 24th, the voting time of the Festival, we will be announcing in Animablog, what is the status of the vote in Animacam, and what are the three most rated animated films in each category:

Best short film animation

1.- Tatián, la casa del árbol. Josué Jaramillo (Colombia)
2.- Velika Bela Lakrdija (Great White Gag). Vojislav Vukadin (Serbia)
3.- El camino del exceso. David Andreu (España)

Best Multimedia Animation

1.- Suona Rosamunda. Enrique Diego Blanco (España)
2.- My own gravity. Ángela Barreiro (España)
3.- White Swan. Sil van der Voerd (Holanda)

Best Retrospective Animation

1.- Defectuoso. Juan Sebastian Díaz Santaella (Colombia)
2.- Joli Dragon. Inma Carpe (España)
3.- Le petit chaperon rouge. Inma Carpe (España)

325 films from 66 countries are competing in Animacam.tv 2010

After finishing the Submission of Films, from today until October the 23, the public around the world can vote their favourite film through the website. They will decide the three films winners of this Edition. Participants will compete for three prizes of € 2,000 each, within the three Categories (Short Film, Multimedia and Retrospective). The awards of this International Festival of Animation Online, based in Ourense - Spain, it is sponsored by XACOBEO S.A.

In the Official Competition of this third edition, there are 325 films of 200 Directors from 66 countries of the five continents (Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Lithuania, Morocco, Mexico, Moldova, Nigeria, Norway, New Zealand, Netherlands, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Peru, Republic of the Congo, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and Venezuela).

The Themes of the films were varied and plural: social denunciation against war, repression, violence and racism, the fears, phobias and personal affairs, the familiar and couples relationships, etc. This year, the satirical and burlesque sense of humour had strong presence, annoyed by the current crisis and its own human social dramas of everyday life. It is also remarkable the large number of projects that express their message through visual poems, seeking to give the image the highest artistic expression.

The Authors of the animations come from a wide and diverse range of ages and backgrounds: from young animators, through global industry professionals (like BRB International, creator of the cartoon landmarks as David The Gnome or Sandokan), to veterans in Central America (Joaquin Carrasquilla from Panama) and Europe (the Italian Federico Anastasi). Among many other remarkable works, this year we have the nominated for an Oscar in 2010 and awarded with the Spanish Goya in 2009 "The lady and the reaper" –produced by Antonio Banderas-, and the documentary made by the Divulgare Group from the University of Vigo, titled "The importance of lizards in island systems” (Science Oscar Award by the magazine The Scientist), based on a study of the National Park of the Atlantic Islands in northwest of Spain.

At the same time, the Festival received the participation of students from prestigious animation training schools in Europe (such as Gobelins the Ecole de Image of France) and America (like Vancouver Film School in Canada).

This Year, there was released in the Official Section, Cartoons Made by Children. Such is the case of PDA (Little Animated Doodles) a Catalonian initiative which takes part around the world to make animated films with children between 8 and 12 years old. From the United Kingdom, the Festival also received two films made by children coursing 4th of Primary, directed by the animator David Bunting, and from Galicia (Spain), students in 4th of Secundary from the Pino Manso High School in O Porriño (Pontevedra), developed in traditional 2D short film, which it is in post-production process, and it was led by the mentor Carlos Lago, Professor of Plastic Education.

The Presence of Women Animators, this third year, was very striking: whereas in 2008 (the date of the 1st Edition) women's representation was limited to five animators, in this third we had more than fifty authors showing their works, with outstanding women animators such as the French Monique Renault or the Spanish María Lorenzo, and new animation talents such it is the case of Maryam and Azadeh Khalilzade Moezzi, from Iran.

Ourense - Spain, 24th of October of 2010

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Last days to send your animations to Animacam Festival!

Dear friends and supporters of Animacam!

We announce that today, September the 22nd is the last day to send animated films to participate in this Third Edition of the International Festival of Animation Online, Animacam.tv. It's been a real pleasure to have the collaboration, monitoring and friendship of so many artists, illustrators, animators, producers and directors who share with us the dream of walking together to animate the world.

During this day we will be releasing the animation works that have came in recent days for webusers and visitors can view and prepare for the start of the voting phase that will take place tomorrow at 8 p.m (Spanish time, GMT)

The animators and creators of cartoons that have not sent their work to Animacam, have still time to do it! It will be a real honor to receive your participation in this edition for the year 2010 Xacobeo Galicia. Thank you all for your encouragement, support and confidence

A strong and warm embrace from Animacam Team

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More Animacam releases from everywhere and everytime

Again, we start another day with more Animacam releases, and touching the edge of the deadline for submission of works, we are really surprised with the quality and quantity of animation works that have arrived in the Official Selection of Animacam. This demonstrates the creative and technical ability with which have the animators, who, from all over the world, have as their animation home Animacam Festival. This time, experienced animators, new talent and great producers are part of the billboard today presenting works from France, Spain, Iran, Chile and Belgium.

The French well-experienced animator Monique Renault, starring in a post in Women Animating, collaborates and participates with the Festival sending lots of her animations. She presents an animation from 1973 entitled À la votre, in which a beautiful young woman and a mini-Superman are coaxed into a curious erotic game. The Iranian animator Maryam Mcharmi involved with a work focusing on the sadness and anxiety of an iron man who is tired of life and committed suicide, made an interesting traditional 2D: Earth is a circle. The animation study Pigmalion presents Waiting in the woods, a film directed by Alexander Bueno and Jessica G. Serna on hopes of a man in a forest and the strange curse that falls on it. A curious drama developed in stop-motion.

The Belgian producer Zorozabel presents an animation directed by Noémie Marsily & Carl Roosens entitled Poodle (Caniche), a traditional 2D comedy that tells the story of a woman’s magazine is carried by the wind. Beauty advices come out from the magazine and get a running dog worked-up. The dog takes the magazine back to his tower home : a new body and a new heart for the little dog !. The date to note is the following: “Love is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite.” Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Finally, the Chilean artist Braulio Raimilla Pavia from Producciones Arquetípicas presents Dagon, a literary adaptation that tells the story of a fisherman who uses alcohol to escape the visions he had after surviving a shipwreck, and fear every second to return to for him those visions.

The final countdown... Just three days for the deadline

After weeks and weeks of Festival, a festival that lasts throughout the year, just three days to the deadline for receipt of Official Competition works, we are debuting five animations to start the week with energy. This time, we show movies that arrived from Spain, Greece, Belgium and Finland, as the dough mixing techniques, the 2D and 3D.

Sanni Lahtinen, Finnish student animators and animation art, presents his work Murto (housebreak), an elaborate film made in clay which tells the story of a thief after a robbery of diamonds, is enclosed in a cache as a bird pet. From Belgium, Jean Debauche in Eenzam Huisje presents the story of an abandoned house guarded by the ghost of an old woman, who has a well developed plot orchestrated and set for a good music. Alberto Rodriguez tells a nice story in 3D: The wrong glasses. Lisa and Wilson are an elderly couple living in a small apartment together with their pets: Fredy, a strange fish of a species and Fabio, also a cat in years. All is harmonious until an oversight that makes a series of accidents happen with little luck for pets.

A short film that criticizes a problem of modern human society. It is a piece based on a non-narrative, that through the use of strong imagery and repetitive animation spread the message. This idea revolves around which the short film from the Greek Georgios Cherouvim entitled Theros. A 3D reconstruction searching across image contemplate the current social problems. "In your own home, in your own room ... when you least expect it. The worst of your nightmares may appear tonight ..." Watch around you, then there may be a night visitor to make you a night of terror. This animation of Xavi Morcillo premieres close this billboard today.

Friday releases to welcome the weekend

In this final stretch of the reception of works in competition, we present the last Friday releases before the start of the voting time by the audience, to welcome a weekend will also be full of new animation releases. This Friday are five, yes, five films for all ages, with works made in stop-motion, clay and 2D, including works with a mixture of techniques, with arguments and experimental constructions. Today, we present animations coming from Spain, Greece, Singapore and Norway.

The Galician animation studies Artefacto Producciones presents one of its most decorated clay productions: O coidador de gatos (The cat-sitter). Directed by Fernando Cortizo, this animation tells the story of a man with a mind-numbing drudgery and that is rewarded when they go out of their work, feed the cats on the streets of Pontevedra. Ilias Sounas repeats participation in Animacam, after being the winner in the First Edition of Animacam with Space Alone,presents a new 2D computer animation: Happy Cloud, an allegorical animation happy for the love and hope, focusing on finding soul mate, which is often closer than we think. The snail of the slope is one of the new arrivals from Singapore to work hand in hand with Vladimir Todorovic, is a film based on a book of the same name by Strugatsky brothers. The novel is set on an unknown planet, where humans have a base from which we are investigating and trying to conquer the Forest.

Fco Salinas Gabriel Aguero, is an Spanish animator who is specialized in the creation and visual search of new trends. On this occasion, presents to the Third Edition of Animacam his work Subterfuge and placebos, a search of dream and audiovisual experimentation from a poetic text, intended to represent the feelings of the base creating a universe of feelings, beauty and pop surreal. Finally, the Norwegian brothers from Tanjets Films, Erik and Runne Eriksson, a new media clip shows, in a tone of humor that tells as was the goal of the Hand of God Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup of Mexico '86 which pitted Argentina against England.

Sweet stories mixed with tragedy in Animacam releases!

We continue premiering a frenetic rythm, five animations daily, while still getting new movies to the Official Festival with five days to the deadline for submitting entries for competition in Animacam. On this occasion, are mixed sweet and nostalgic stories based on everyday life, along with real historical events and on the other hand, the war against fear humor over time and death. Variety of themes from different parts of the globe such as Iran, Spain, Croatia and Italy.

Maryam Khalilzade shows us a sweet and touching story called Photo. Iranian author focuses on leadership in an accordionist who plays every day to liven up the streets and sweeten the lives of pedestrians as they imagine their own book of life. Antonio Caeiro heading a new clip from A volta dos nove. This application of an animation by Pablo Millán and Ana Lombao to illustrate the commentary we witnessed the execution of nine Baredo in place that gives its name to the documentary. Escargot is a work of the author Manuel Šumberac, produced by the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, which tells the story of two armies of snails that are fighting for the same purpose, against the latest outbreak of the stem.

Francisco J. Calvo Sánchez presents his work in clay Tiempo Sombra. This short began really makes a whopping 10 years, whose decor and much of the doll are then. A story about the monsters that creates darkness when the time runs out. Finally, Federico Anastasi repeats participation in Animacam, presenting his video "Carbone Papier" - Arman Méliès, produced by Undicidecimi.

Last Wednesday of Animacam releases!

Again, we are pleased to renew the billboard of Animacam with five new animation works with different styles, subjects and techniques. In the absence of only six days to the deadline for submit films to the Official Competition, and given the huge number of animated projects that have reached the Official Section of Festival, we reported that every day, will release five new animated movies, and get ready for the next 23rd of September to start the voting time of the Festival. Today, new releases come from Spain, United States, Israel and Argentina.

On Line is a funny satire on the internet connection and the use made of it by young people of nowadays through social networks, instant messenger programs, chat and forums. You never know how close we can be of a "virtual" persoal, we are seeing on the network. Federico Santillana, from Argentina, presents this short film made in clay. The Israelian animator Matan Kidrony presents his work Little Longings, a surreal journey that shows the relationship between the creator and his creations, expressed through the eyes of the creator. Norwegian Brothers of Tanjets Films, Runne and Erik Eriksson presented a new multimedia video in the Festival: Survival of nicest, where we see that life in the forest is not always a struggle for survive.

Molly Allis repeats participation in this Third Edition of Animacam with Seahorse, a music video in which a girl drawn on paper travels through a world of cardboard. After participating with her acclaimed movie Pilgrim, Your heart is a ball of fire, Allis presents this stop-motion fantasy in which we embarked on a journey into the unknown. Finally, David Andreu participates with his animation El camino del exceso, a work conceived as an expression, a cry, a metaphor for social inequality and hypocrisy of our world.

Secunde

A dance animation to pacify the goddess Abeguwo who lives in heaven, but makes it rain on earth when she urinates.

Directed by the Dutch Guusje Kaayk, participates in Animacam, showing through music, a divine animation dedicated to the gods.

Now and then

Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America's best-selling poets, reads his poem "Now and Then". Created for the Sundance Channel.

The Korean-born American artist Eun-Ha Paek, Animacam repeated participation in this Third Edition. After presenting last week Hunger like the wolf, shows Now and Then, a poem by Billy Collins, with successful traditional animation with rhythmic verses American poet.

Flesh color

Japanese tattoo is very beautiful and very traditional culture. By using Japanese tattoo, representing the beauty of a human being's skin,"flesh color" in the animation.

Masahiko Adachi, from Japan, presents the traditional Japan tattoo culture, representing the "flesh color" art and beauty that represents this fine tradition.

Lightstealer

Respect the nature - Make light without turn off the nature.

The Italian Federico Anastasi presents a beautiful and demanding 2D animation talking about by respect for nature, illuminating without contaminate in Lightstealer.

The tower of time

Amazing and fantastic adventure where the time and the death are vigilant.

The Tower of Time is a great 3D fantasy adventure directed by José Luis Quirós that mixes real image with 3D animation, using a similar aesthetic to the famous game Final Fantasy, tells a metaphor between time and death, their similarities and differences.

Urgent press release: Animacam in Facebook

Dear friends of Animacam Festival:

It is our duty to inform you that we have a serious problem when attempting to access our Facebook account, which user is Festi. Animacam, those problems appears six days ago. After three years of attendance of the Festival where its was active, sharing all information relating to it through the social network, we are not able to offer you all the information about it from our original account, created from the First Edition of the Festival in June 2008.

After trying to solve the problem, contacting the administrators of the social network Facebook, whose representatives have ignored our demands, and consulting advice to various experts in social computing and networking, we do not understand what is the real reason for the impossibility to accest to the account, because we have the user profile opened to the Internet, but can not access the account to continue reporting the news about Animacam. Therefore, we suspect that this is a computer attack to the Facebook´s user of Animacam, ignoring the reasons and motives that have led to cause him/her to do it.

We apologize to all our supporters and friends of the Festival, as it is a bug outside the Organization and impossible to be sorted out through it, which has always done a strictly professional and informative work to share with you our business, played with all our affection and encouragement. However, our alternative is to create a new user of the festival to continue transmitting the news to the public regarding the same.

Please accept our apologies and call upon this social network managers to rectify, explain and argue the disadvantages that have arisen when the access to social network profile, motives and reasons unknown and as users, we have the right to be informed.

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We start this week releasing five new animated films!

Following further weekend with films coming from all parts of the world, we continue down the stretch debuting five new animations, in the absence of just nine days to the deadline for submission of films in the Official Section of the Animacam Festival. They are still, in this Third Edition Animacam, many interesting animated movies, creating a highly competitive event with that resolved in the coming weeks by the webusers with their votes through the website. This week, we begin featuring five animations from Spain, Netherlands, United States, Japan and Italy.

The Tower of Time is a great 3D fantasy adventure directed by José Luis Quirós that mixes real image with 3D animation, using a similar aesthetic to the famous game Final Fantasy, tells a metaphor between time and death, their similarities and differences. The Italian Federico Anastasi presents a beautiful and demanding 2D animation talking about by respect for nature, illuminating without contaminate in Lightstealer. Masahiko Adachi, from Japan, presents the traditional Japan tattoo culture, representing the "flesh color" art and beauty that represents this fine tradition.

The Korean-born American artist Eun-Ha Paek, Animacam repeated participation in this Third Edition. After presenting last week Hunger like the wolf, shows Now and Then, a poem by Billy Collins, with successful traditional animation with rhythmic verses American poet. Finally, Secunde shows an animation of the dance to appease the goddess Abeguwo who lives in heaven. Directed by the Dutch Guusje Kaayk taught through music, a divine animation dedicated to the gods.

We welcome the weekend with new Animacam releases

As icing to the cake, we ended this week released five more animated works Animacam Festival, since the absence of 12 days to the deadline for receipt of films for competition, more than 250 works from all parts of the world . On this occasion, we release films interesting stop-motion, 3D and 2D from Spain, Bulgaria, Argentina and Cuba.

La Competitiva is an excellent and most elaborate work in stop-motion led by Hernan "Mono" Cieza and Adriana "Peca" Delfino, set in a factory caganers, classic figure of Bethlehem Christmas. The figures long for the waitress, and each will battle for a competition to achieve the love of the lady. Jaykel Perez, from Cuba, presents a 3D short film based on a tragicomedy about a postman and the package leads from Antarctica to Central America. Again, the group divulge the University of Vigo presents another interactive video: Use of drifting buoys for monitoring marine dumping, a documentary for educational purposes and instructions designed for university education.

Penko Gelev from Bulgaria presents an interesting 3D animation starring the mollusk Egi and various creatures that circulate around the road. A novel contribution to social satire produced by the Animation Studio Gekkon entitled Doroga. Finally, the Argentine David Vecchio presents us in DM Fable: The Granny, the three little pigs, wolf, a hawk green ... A fable for children? "Legend in Dm" is a return to the origins of these stories as individuals who recounted during medieval times.

Cowboys don´t cry

Cowboys aren't afraid to die. Their death, always spectacular, is the grand finale of a tragic destiny. But when a cowboy messes up his exit, when he seems to hesitate awkwardly between life and death, the Western turns to the absurd, if not the metaphysical.

The French study Lardux Films, under a Christian Pfhol production, show a groundbreaking audiovisual production: Cowboys Don´t Cry, a film that mixes real image with animation over the faces of the cowboys.

Oxygen

One day in the life of the man who had everything.

Gerardo de la Fuente with a new animation work participates in this edition of Animacam. After presenting ¿Qué nos ha pasado?, the author shows a 3D animation called Oxígeno, a story that recounts a day in the life of the man who had everything.

Hunger like the wolf

A very short animation about love, transformation, and heartbreak. Inspired by the book, Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow - a story about werewolves in modern day Los Angeles.

Eun-Ha Paek is an animation filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Her background includes a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and stints as an art director, graphic designer, illustrator and concept artist for broadcast, web, print, games and products for a wide variety of clients. Hunger like the wolf is and inspired and beautiful story of traditional animation presented in multiple visual events.

White Swan: Get your imagination free!

An exhausted, shivering girl is captured in a dark machinery world. As she escapes in to her imagination, a mesmerizing world unfolds.

Sil van Woerden presents, from Netherlands, the work is titled White Swan, an audiovisual experiment combining real images with 3D animation where a girl exhausted and fearful are caught in a dark and mechanical world.

Nocta by Iván Díaz

The psychedelia of the night, dance music, dance floors and psychotropic substances exaggerate the emotions: love and hate.

Iván Díaz, a prominent promoter of Gata study after participating in the last edition of Animacam with his work Cuervo, returns showing his new film: Nocta. A work that shows the consequences of a night of partying, alcohol and psychotropic substances.

We get a new billboard with five new animations!

Again, we update our Animacam´s billboard five new cartoons arriving from different parts of the globe. Highlights new works developed in 3D, stop-motion, traditional animation and new techniques, combination of real image and animation to create new experiments in the field of animation. This time, we show animation films from the Netherlands, Spain, France and the United States.

Iván Díaz, a prominent promoter of Gata study after participating in the last edition of Animacam with his work Cuervo, returns showing his new film: Nocta. A work that shows the consequences of a night of partying, alcohol and psychotropic substances. Sil van Woerden presents, from Netherlands, the work is titled White Swan, an audiovisual experiment combining real images with 3D animation where a girl exhausted and fearful are caught in a dark and mechanical world. Eun-Ha Paek, a veteran American animator of Korean origin, shows a curious and elaborate traditional animation titled Hunger Like the Wolf: a film about love, transformation, and anxiety.

Gerardo de la Fuente with a new animation work participates in this edition of Animacam. After presenting ¿Qué nos ha pasado?, the author shows a 3D animation called Oxígeno, a story that recounts a day in the life of the man who had everything. Finally, the French study Lardux Films, under a Christian Pfhol production, show a groundbreaking audiovisual production: Cowboys Do not Cry, a reflection that concludes with the following statement: "The cowboys are not afraid to die. His death, provided spectacular, is the grand finale of a tragic destiny. "

Dr. Banana: a doctor without borders

Dr Banana and his assistant Celerius are on a ‘Doctors without borders’ mission in the jungle where they meet natives who seem to have taken a strange liking to smoothies.

The German animator Oliver Kling presents a quirky comedy series featuring a variety of vegetables and fruits. Dr. Banana is the doctor who leads an expedition to an Indian tribe that has ingested a smoothie in poor condition. We will broadcast more episodes of this funny and singular doctor!

The importance of the lizards on island ecosystems

Through this 3D animation video the laboratory of Ecology and Evolution of plants and Divulgare Group at the University of Vigo purport to show the role, unknown to the general public, small lizards, as shapers of the landscape plant on island ecosystems. These reptiles change their diet in insular environments incorporating many fleshy fruits. By eating these fruits, disperse their seeds with a fantastic result for the plants.

The video shows the results of a research project by the laboratory of Plant Ecology and Evolution at the University of Vigo has made in the National Park of the Atlantic Islands of Galicia (Spain) an autonomous body funded by the National Parks. Under the baton of Luis Navarro, they present The importance of lizards in island systems, based on a study conducted in the National Park of the Atlantic Islands of Galicia.

Liezi, a taoist tale by Xiapeng

It has been openly acknowledged as a Daoist classic, taking its place in the Daoist Canon as one of the school's three primary texts (the other two being the Dao De Jing and the Zhuangzi).

Liezi is a traditional animation work, led by the new Chinese animation talent Xiapeng, which, evoking the work of painting on canvas, has a very distinctive oriental visual treatment within the traditional revolutionary subject. A Taoist story with beautiful illustrations and warm colors that take us back to Imperial China.

'Pilgrim, Your Heart is a Ball' of Light

'Pilgrim, Your Heart is a Ball' of Light takes the viewer on a journey from a world where people live in fear and are separated from each other, to a world of the heart, where everything is connected and we all come from the same source, Mother Earth. It is a story of transformation, and the celebration of life and joy in fantastical proportions.
This video is a short experimental work of 2D and 3D stop-motion animation. It is scored to original music by the director, and contains no dialogue.

The American animator Molly Allis participates in Animacam with Pilgrim, your heart is a ball of light, a work that through the combination of 2D, 3D and stop-motion seeks to convey to the viewer, sensations and feelings associated with the environment in which we are immersed.

Fard

In a near future, everything seem clear and perfect... But what if you can get the opportunity to see what lies underneath the surface?

From directors Luis Briceno and David Alapont, and producer Jeremy Rochigneux, Fard is a new animated short blessed with a classic sense of style. With its muted color palette and clean lines, Fard manages to evoke a sort of classic neo-futurism, a vision of the future that wouldn't have seemed out of place in Fritz Lang's day but doesn't seem dated today, either.

New Animacam releases when the deadline is coming in 15 days!

Once again, we start this Monday continuing with new animation releases coming from different parts of the globe, due to the huge number of projects presented in this Third Edition of Animacam. In the absence of fifteen days to complete the reception of works in the Official Competition, and started the voting phase of the public. Mixed techniques, new experiences in collage, combining classical techniques with new mechanisms for achieving impact to the viewer. This week, animations come from France, Spain, United States, China and Germany.

Experienced animators Luis Briceno and David Alapont present Fard, a short film of a new visual aesthetics, framed in a story that presents a futuristic universe, dark underground with very little hope. The American animator Molly Allis participates in Animacam with Pilgrim, your heart is a ball of light, a work that through the combination of 2D, 3D and stop-motion seeks to convey to the viewer, sensations and feelings associated with the environment in which we are immersed. From China, the young animator Xiapeng, presents a Taoist movement through animated figures and images titled Liezi - considered one of the three main texts of the school (the other two are the Dao De Jing and the Zhuangzi) -.

The laboratory of Ecology and Evolution of plants and Divulgare Group at the University of Vigo present Animacam in a 3D documentary series in order to publicize and disseminate educational classes for schools, universities and training centers, training videos and documentaries with desire instructive. On this occasion, under the baton of Luis Navarro, they present The importance of lizards in island systems, based on a study conducted in the National Park of the Atlantic Islands of Galicia. Finally, the German animator Oliver Kling presents a quirky comedy series featuring a variety of vegetables and fruits. Dr. Banana is the doctor who leads an expedition to an Indian tribe that has ingested a smoothie in poor condition.

The painter of skies by Jorge Morais

From the darkness of the lost cliffs, a crazy painter, marked by his past, and his faithul assistant try to find a solution against perpetual storms. Sea is destroying their home. A magic boiler and some tormented ghosts will help them to find the light.

Jorge Morais was born in Vigo in 1981 and trained in Arts. After years of increasing their academic potential, he opted for the world of animation, and after years of work conducted his first 3D animated short. Recently, in an interview, the author said how appeared the idea:

"The story of The painter of skies was born from something as simple as the vision I have of me working at home. Let me explain ... I live about 50 meters from the sea in a house with a huge glass wall, so I can enjoy magnificent views of "ria valley" of Vigo. If you realise how much time I spend working at home and how hard it is sometimes put things to take projects forward, and almost have the story told. All I had was getting the right atmosphere and attractive for the short and Galicia made me easy."

Spanish animated weekend in Animacam

This first weekend of September we offer to the webusers and supporters of Animacam, five new animated films of different styles and themes, all from Spain. A country that, as the years pass, continues to provide and contribute to the animation sector with great works of animation recognized in many festivals around the world. On acetate traditional animation, 3D, stop motion and 2D on Codeco tablet computer techniques are represented this weekend.

The renowned animator from Alicante, María Lorenzo, one of the leading figures in our space, Women Animating, participates again in this third edition of Animacam with her lastest animation: La flor carnívora, a traditional animation on acetate which tells the loneliness of a woman which her carnivorous plants die, but not all. Jorge Morais from Vigo, presents his first 3D animated short film, The painter of skies, a renowned award-winning work in Mestre Mateo Awards and the Festival de Cans, important events of the Galician audiovisual landscape. A story full of fantasy starring a manic artist. From Galicia also comes an interesting and novel animation performed during the audiovisual circuit of Santiago de Compostela, Curtocircuíto. ANIM 01, directed by Juan Lesta and Belén Montero, is a video made in the graphical codeco made with physical magnetopixels.

Jorge Vallejo continues to introduce his works in Animacam. Following their participation in the Second Edition with Cómo está el mundo, Fermin! and in 2010 with El extravagante Sepia Man, presents a work that seeks social awareness towards the Grand imbalance between the Third World and the Western world. Finally, Gerardo de la Fuente from Arte Estrategia Estudio participates in Animacam with ¿Qué nos ha pasado?, A metaphor about relationships that are deteriorating over time.

Special report about Animacam in Telemiño (Ourense, Spain)

Monstrous Wildlife

Monstrous Wildlife is an educational film about Graboids.

Frank Robnik share with us a didactic and informative documentary, under the auspice of the University of Applied Sciences of Aubsburg, focusing on the graboids, prehistoric creatures which live on the earth's crust and come to have a size greater than 300 feet. These animals, also known as land sharks, are one of the prehistoric species that are resisting nowadays.

We the divided

An island civil war results in the separation of two childhood friends, and the construction of a barrier.

We the Divided is an excellent thesis project by Ryan Chen, a student at UCLA, University of Southern California. This story, which has taken over two years of work on modeling, texturing, and that uses a well-done and exquisite 3D, is currently in distribution period festivals around the world.

We start this 1st of September with new releases!

On Wednesday, the first day of September, we present five new works in the Official Section of the Festival, among which we can differentiate different techniques (from a new 3D, via traditional 2D works and also made in flash), different themes and arguments (apocalyptic stories , funny anecdotes and spaces dedicated to humour). This time, the animation works in competition are coming from Spain, Norway, Germany and the United States.

The animator Ryan Chen, of the film school at the University of Southern California, presents a 3D animation set in a civil war that causes the separation of two great friends on both sides in We the divided. Gabriel Fco. Salinas brings us a music video for the Multimedia category with the song Vacaciones en Francia of the album Cactus, played by the band Jet 7 on moving from Madrid to Paris to see the corners of the French capital.

Frank Robnik involved with a work coming from the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, an educational documentary titled Mounstrous Wildlife. The Norwegian animation company Tanjet Films participates again in this third edition with its particular cartoon characters arrived from Mars, with a monologue of Stand Up Comedy Matters. Finally, Chips and Films presents a promotional video for its series Sin Tetas no hay nadie en mi piso and the various channels of communication with which account to share information on the web.