Hiya, everyone! It’s been a looong time since I’ve updated this site. I’ve been busy doing the comic over at We The Robots. That takes up all my time lately, so the animation projects have suffered a great deal. I’ll be posting some more stuff here soon, but in the mean time I wanted to encourage anyone who’s interested to:

Go VOTE FOR MAKE MINE SHOEBOX at Channel Frederator. It’s up for best Flash animation. I don’t know what happens to the winners, but it would be kind of neato, so I appreciate any votes.

Thanks! I’ll post more updates on some other goings on soon.

In the past few weeks, Learn Self Defense has taken home a few more awards at film festivals.

At the Bradford Animation Festival, put on by the British National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television, we won two awards:

The Audience Award for Best Film, as voted by the festival attendees, and Best Professional Film. (”Professional??!!”)

The Toofy Film Festival in Boulder, CO is a small but very cool festival in its second year. In addition to screening films, they also have music and fashion.

Learn Self Defense won the Golden Toof Award for Best Animated Short. Thanks, Toofy!

Learn Self Defense is right in the thick of the festival tour, and has already screened in 35 cities with many more scheduled for the rest of the year.

The film has also taken home several awards in recent weeks:

Oxford Film Festival
Spirit of the Hoka Award for Best Animation

Irish Animation Festival, Féile Beochan
Special Mention, International Category

1st Sundays Comedy Film Festival
Judges’ Choice Award

Tallgrass Film Festival
Audience Award for Best Short

Arizona International Film Festival
Selected for Best of AIFF Show

Check the homepage for a complete list of upcoming screenings.

This year at our home town festival, the Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee, Learn Self Defense won two awards– First Place in KC/Metro Animation category, and the coveted Robert Altman Best of the Fest Award! There were a lot of good films screening in all the categories, so this was a very pleasant surprise.

The speech Chris Harding was too dumbfounded to deliver:
Thanks to all the people who run the Jubilee, and to the Jurors for coming out and supporting our movies. And mostly thanks to Amy who has lived with a person hunched over a screen in the basement for many moons.

Make Mine Shoebox has been honored at the Kansas City AIGA 2004 Design Competition, in the Motion Graphics category. As everyone knows, AIGA stands for American Institute of Graphic Arts.

The short will be screening at the reception. 

For the Kansas City people, here are some details about the awards ceremony:

DATE/TIME:
Friday, January 21, 2005
6:30pm - 10:00pm

LOCATION:
Club 1000 Penthouse
1000 Broadway6th floor
Kansas City, MO
(above Tanner's)

ADMISSION:
$35 Members$45 Non-members
$25 Student Members
$35 Student Non-Members

RSVP: info@kansascity.aiga.org