Dear friends!

All our gratitude,

For having grown, one more year, with you,

For having shared, your animated live, with us,

For having walked together, to animate the world,

…

For all that, and much more

HAPPY ANIMATED CHRISTMAS

AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Fernando Trueba comes stomping in the world of animation with "Chico and Rita"

Photo:EFE
Article: Emol.cultura

Dedicated to Cuban musician Bebo Valdes, this animated feature took the Best Film Award at the International Animation Festival in Holland.

Directed by Trueba and Javier Mariscal hand, won the Award for Best Film at the International Animation Festival Holland (HAFF) by unanimous decision of the jury.

Through this FIML viewers will be moved to "a vivid and vibrant time in the history of jazz".

"It's a classic love story that unites different continents and time points, using music to weave a web of memories and nostalgia to create a beautiful and sad story," said the jury.

"Chico & Rita" tells the love story between a pianist and a singer, for whom life is coming together and apart, like a bolero. Moreover, it is also the story of New York and Havana between 40 and 50.

The soundtrack of this co-production between Spain and the UK is run by Bebo Valdes, who was assisted by Estrella Morente and an impressive list of Cuban and American musicians. Its release is scheduled for November 19 in the UK and Ireland.

Jeff Treves performed Karinka Element music video - the Ant Karinka

Jeff Treves is a great artist in the animation and illustration. A graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design in 2004, worked in New York for different studies for 4 years and continued his career in Istanbul since 2008.

He loves all kinds of animation and filmmaking in general. Particularly those in which the characters' stories are powerful. Discovered what he really wanted to do for work, defined as the fact that half the job. The remainder of this paper is only for research and training.Says he took about 22 years know what he wanted to do with the cartoon characters. And he reiterate that it is never late to learn what you really want to learn, saying the talent is nothing compared to the determination.


Today is the head of Treves studies in Istanbul, and here present his work. Enjoy.

Radio Galega brings together the winners of Animacam third edition

On Saturday 30 October, the program "Nos quen" of Radio Galega brought together the winners of the  Third Edition of Animacam, who, along with festival director Xosé Luis Carneiro, shared a nice "little while" on the airwaves. In the interview shared his passion for the world of animation, deep into its initial stages of development of this art.

Josué Jaramillo from Colombia, Inma Carpe from Denmark and Eduardo Alés from Almeria, we discussed the present and future projects without forgetting thanks to Animacam. Well, then, from Animacam can only answer that gratitude is ours to them and to all of you who make possible that the world grows a little more each day.

For your effort, your work, your joy, your passion ...

Thank you very much everybody!!

Here is your house

While we wait to send us the full interview in high quality ... for those who do not wish to wait, you can find the cut by clicking here. It is located in the fragment of Saturday - 9:05 - in the 37 '30 ".

We apologize the server failing

Dear friends and supporters of Animacam:

We inform you that from 7pm. of yesterday, to 07.30 am. of today (both of them in Spanish time, GMT), for technical reasons unrelated to the Organization of the Festival, has not been possible to access successfully to the Animacam.tv homepage. We deeply regret this disappointment, caused by errors inherent in the technological society in which we live and we are all susceptible. Nowadays, the bug has already been corrected and the webuser and visitor can navigate freely and peacefully.

We would like to apologize for the inconvenience. We hope you continue following and supporting us as you have always done. Thank you very much!
 

Best regards

ANIMACAM TEAM

Thanks a lot to everybody

WINNERS OF THE THIRD EDITION 2010

The audience from 106 countries, Jury of the Festival through their vote Online,
with 500.000 visits registered,
decided that the Winners of the Three Categories,
sponsored with €2000 each one by the Entity Xacobeo S.A., 
were for films coming from Colombia and Spain

1. Best Animated Short Film

Tatián (la casa en él árbol)
Josué Jaramillo
Colombia. 2010

2. Best Multimedia Animation

Los días del Kraülio
Eduardo Alés
Spain. 2010

3. Best retrospective Animation

Joli Dragon
Inma Carpe
España. 2003

From the Organization we remark the high quality of the films, the diversity of techniques (2D, 3D, stop-motion, plasticine...) and the thematics (genre violence, territorial and armed conflicts, censorship, familiar and couple relations, environment...).

Visitors, “virtual pilgrims”and webusers registered from 106 countries have voted (Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda Islands, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegobina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Dominique Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emyrates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Zimbabwe)

Two months before the end of the Festival, the results of this Third Edition couldn’t be more successful:
500.000 visits
326 films from 204 animators from 66 countries from 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).

It is also notorious the importance of two new spaces in Animacam this year:
1º Women Animating, a Blog dedicated at women in the animation industry, witch increased the female participation in more than 50 films at the Festival.
2º Cartoons Made by Children.
 For the first time in a Festival like this, we got animation in several techniques competing in the Official Section and coming from places such Egypt, England and Spain.


From Animacam we congratulate the Winners, we truly appreciate the collaboration of Participants and Users, and we show the gratitude to our Sponsors (Xacobeo –Xacobeo Filme-, Consellería de Industria, and Tecnópole): without all them we´ll never could keep walking together to “animate the world”.

Tomorrow we will announce the winners of Animacam 2010

It is a pleasure for the Organization of the Festival, to inform you that tomorrow, Tuesday October 26th of 2010, we will announce the winners of the three Audience Awards in the categories Short Film, Multimedia and Retrospective of the International Festival of Animation Online, Animacam 2010.

We are grateful and proud to have received so many expressions of support and affection for this edition and would like to show our appreciation to the visitors, participants, voters, webusers, supporters and pilgrims who have walked with us during this Third Edition of the Festival. To all of you ... Thanks!

In relation to the feedback of this Third Edition, is our duty to report that despite the inconveniences and setbacks that may arise in it, we have a control system that filters the votes to ensure that it is a fair competition.

Best wishes