The short film “Cracking Chirality” produced by the absurdly talented Day’s Edge Productions and The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. was published online today and will on Curiosity Stream shortly. Dusty Studio did the animation with myself and Miles Mason doing the stop motion, Phillip Evans doing much of the illustration and Yalan Wen doing the motion graphics. Thanks Neil, Nathan, Page, Kori and Alex for begin so easy to work with. :)

“Cracking Chirality” from Chemistry Shorts™ explores how the essential molecules of life, like DNA, RNA, and proteins, acquired their homochiral structures and how magnetic rocks at the bottom of a prebiotic lake, may have set the stage for life as we know it.

Confluence: Safe Crossing

SVA MFA Computer Arts 2023 Fall Exhibition

Opening reception: Thursday, November 9, 6-8pm

School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Confluence: Safe Crossing,” an exhibition of animations, films, prints and sculptures by MFA Computer Arts students, alumni, and faculty. Curated by India Lombardi-Bello, department assistant to the chair and outreach coordinator, and department administrative assistant Jack Meisterich, the exhibition will be on view from Wednesday, November 8, through Monday, November 27, 2023 at the SVA Flatiron Gallery, 133/141 West 21st Street, New York City.

At the opening reception on Thursday, November 9, alumnus Dustin Grella (2009) will park his Animation Bus outside the SVA Flatiron Gallery for visitors to gather, draw and animate. A timelapse video will be created and shared at a later date.

Vermont Animation Festival

Announcing Dustin Grella as the
2024 VAF Keynote Speaker!

Dustin Grella is an animator and documentary filmmaker whose work attempts to glean glimpses of colorful insight into the seemingly mundane.

O FESTIVAL | Festival Animage

Animation Hotline, 2022 (Ohio Edition) will be screening in the Competition-4 programme at the ANIMAGE festival in Recife, Brazil on October 3-8, 2023.

Poster Design by Natalia Gregorini - IG @nataliagregorini

ANIMAGE2023_LivretoDigital.pdf

Read the full New York Times article at:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/arts/music/dead-and-company-final-tour.html

Winners of the 53rd ASIFA-East Animation Festival! | ASIFA-East

Animation Hotline, 2022 (Ohio Edition) earned a thumbs up by the ASIFA community! Thank you for your love and support over the years. :)

This is just a mockup, so it isn’t what the bus looks like right now. Although it is an actual photograph of the bus. I’m planning on putting some colorful painting on the front and the back and then the middle will be chalkboard paint, so that when we are traveling we can have other people draw on the bus and we can draw on it ourselves and make animations. For some reason I keep talking about myself in plural.

I bought a school bus this summer, a little midsized school bus, and I’m going to turn it into a little mobile animation station with a studio in the back and a bed up front. (at Kenton County, Kentucky)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CjI5YK3LQm1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Dusty Studio is going to be at the SVA Career Fair this Friday, March 24 from 1-4PM.  We will be looking for four Illustrators and a Motionographer for an upcoming job in April and May.  The Illustrators will need to show samples of figure drawing (digital photos of works on paper are sufficient, you don’t need to bring in your whole portfolio) and animation experience is a huge plus. If you aren’t able to make it to the booth, feel free to fill out this freelance form on the website.

We will also be speaking to people about summer internship opportunities.  If you are interested in an internship this summer with Dusty Studio please stop by the booth and say hello and drop off samples of your work.

The career fair will be held at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 123 West 18th Street, 4th Floor from 1-4PM.