A Call for Entries will be sent to all ASIFA Portland members soon for the new ASIFA Portland Show Reel. Details to come!

Animators! Illustrators! Cartoonists!
You are invited to ASIFA Portland’s BACKYARD SUMMER PARTY!

ASIFA Social & Fundraiser for a projector and to bring a HUGE name in animation to Portland as a special visiting artist ASIFA presentation. Read the rest of this entry →

PNCA presents Boundary Crossings: An Institute in Contemporary Animated Arts from July 13 – 24, 2009.

“With the advent of digital technologies, the appearance of hybrid moving images has emerged as the norm, affecting boundaries between live action, animation, image processing, and compositing as porous as the platforms of display that host them. Through re-defining animation and the manipulated image, animated art forms are being pushed beyond the movies to permeate our cultural landscape.” The Institute is a series of private workshops and public lectures and screenings featuring instructors from the PNCA Intermedia department. Read the rest of this entry →

NWFC AND PNCA PRESENT: July 15, 2009
AN EVENING WITH PAUL VESTER A pioneer in the field, British animator Paul Vester has been primarily concerned with the language of animation. Vester combines different media and techniques to create personal work that is both eclectic and referential, while producing commercial projects of astonishing range. He is the co-director of the experimental animation program at the California Institute of the Arts, and was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, among many other awards and honors. Read the rest of this entry →