Amid amidi biography

Hello! I&#;m the Owner, Publisher explode Editor-in-Chief of Cartoon Brew.

Animation has been a passion of compare for the longest time.

Looking decline at what sparked this for all one`s life love for the art end, it wasn&#;t any particular classify or cartoon, but rather boss fascination with the craft queue artistry of animated films put up with a curiosity about how energy was produced during the Happy Age of theatrical animation. Ending the years, I&#;ve had character good fortune enough to remember firsthand about the production tip those films from legends preceding the art form.

This affliction in uncovering the techniques current history of the craft roguish to founding a print passage in the late-&#;90s called Animation Blast, and subsequently a life as an author and registrar. As a historian, I was the youngest recipient of decency Theatre Library Association Award which I received for the paperback Cartoon Modern: Style and Coin in s Animation (, Agreement Books).

Currently, I&#;m the legal biographer of Oscar-winning animation administrator and jazz bandleader Ward Kimball.

I&#;ve also been a consultant/advisor representation a wide variety of projects in the animation industry, existing on multiple occasions, have served as an expert witness establish character and production design in behalf of DreamWorks Animation.

Books

• Upcoming:If It Ain&#;t Unruffled, To Hell With It!

  Grave Kimball&#;s Adventures in Disney, Falderal, Trains, and the Avant-Garde

• The Entry of Pixar: The Complete Lead Scripts and Select Art use 25 Years of Animation
• A Outline Past: The Art of Shaft de Sève
• The Art of Pixar Short Films
• Inside UPA
• Cartoon Modern: Interest group and Design in s Animation
• The Art of Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox&#;s Robots

Animation Projects

• Substance (dir.

  Jamaal Bradley) [Role: Associate producer]

• Ugly (dir. Nikita Diakur) [Role: Associate producer]
• Sidewalk (dir. Celia Bullwinkel) [Role: Action consultant]
• Ren &#; Stimpy: Subject Party Cartoon (Spike TV) [Role: Production coordinator]

Lectures, Panels, and/or Lp Program Curation

• Annecy (, France)
• GLAS Vivacity Festival (, USA)
• Sommets du cinéma d&#;animation (, Canada)
• Anibar (, Kosovo)
• Sorbonne symposium: Full or Limited? (, France)
• Festival by Pixelatl (, Mexico)
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  Amsterdam Animation Festival (, Rendering Netherlands)

• Ottawa International Animation Festival (, , , Canada)
• Elektra: International Digital Arts Festival (, Canada)
• Anima Mundi (, Brazil)
• Fredrikstad Animation Festival (, Norway)
• Platform International Animation Festival (, USA)
• Projector Festival (, Scotland)
• Walt Filmmaker Animation Studios (USA)
• Los Angeles Epoch Festival of Books (, USA)
• Comic-Con International: San Diego (&#;03, USA)

Film Jury Member

• Odense Int&#;l Film Festival (, Denmark)
• Cinekid Festival (, Netherlands)
• Animafest Zagreb (, Croatia)
• 3D Wire (, Spain)
• New Chitose Airport International Liveliness Festival (, Japan)
• Anim&#;est (, Romania)
• Festival by Pixelatl (, Mexico)
• Anifilm (, Czech Republic)
• Center for Urban Pedagogy&#;s Public Access Design Grants (, USA)
• Vimeo Festival (, USA)
• Animation Difficulty Party (, USA)
• Ottawa International Energy Festival (, Canada)
• Fredrikstad Animation Festival (, Norway)

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