On Sunday, February 12th, the Oregon Cartoon Institute is holding a public meeting at 5th Avenue Cinema. Starting at 2pm, the event’s centerpiece is a screening and discussion of the earliest Portland-made animation on record, The Little Baker , a stop-motion piece shot in the 1920s by Lewis Clark Cook. Cited as an inspiration by Will Vinton, this rarely-seen [...]

Saturday Morning Cartoons at Night is exactly what it sounds like. This Monday, January 23rd, the Hollywood Theater presents ninety minutes of retro (1940s-1980s) cartoon goodness on the big screen, complete with bizarre commercials for the Mattel toys that you wish your mom hadn’t yard-saled.  This promises to be a mighty fun time. The Hollywood sells [...]

On Saturday Feb. 4th at 7:00pm, the Academy Award-nominated, computer-eschewing independent animation icon  Don Hertzfeldt brings his films and his generous Q&A skills to the Hollywood Theater. He’ll screen a selection of his work on 35mm, culminating in the exclusive regional premiere of It’s Such A Beautiful Day , the third and final chapter in a trilogy about [...]

Coming up on January 27 and 28, Portland Animation Now! showcases 20+ short films from local independent animators. Including both masters and remarkable amateurs, this is a line-up of new works and seldom-seen gems you won’t find anywhere else.  Highlights include:

At 6pm on January 26, 3DPDX and AEPDX welcome digital artist Barton Damer to the PCC Moriarty Arts & Humanities Building. Damer will show you what Maxon Cinema4D can do. There’s refreshments and a raffle– check the flyer here.

After a successful launch this past spring, the NW Animation Festival is now accepting entries for 2012. Films from anywhere in the world are welcome. The fest will be held here in Portland on the weekend of May 18-19. Early deadline for submissions is December 15, final deadline April 1. See website for details: http://www.nwanimationfest.com

On October 23rd, ASIFA Portland is proud to co-sponsor a screening of the 2010 animated feature  Chico & Rita . Directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, the movie is critically praised, award-winning, and packed to the gills with Cuban jazz. The screening starts at 5pm at the Whitsell Auditorium at the Portland Art Museum. For more information and to [...]

Save the date and brace yourself. On Friday, October 28, we’re combining International Animation Day, Halloween,  Drinking & Drawing, and the unabashed oddity of The Peculiarium for an evening of animation-making strangeness. Costumes encouraged. Details to follow. Get spooky.

It’s that time of year– Ron Diamond (Acme Filmworks, AWN) returns to Portland with an expertly curated sampling of the year’s best new animated shorts. Free to ASIFA Portland members and our non-member friends, the show is at Cinema 21 (NW 21st and Hoyt) at noon on Saturday, October 15. It is not to be missed. Afterwards, [...]

On Sunday, October 2, come out to the Mission Theater for an exclusive, inside look at the visual effects work that went into the making of  Tron Legacy. Bradley ” GMUNK” Munkowitz presents case studies of the team’s major graphic sequences and shares the immense design process of each task. Brought to you by AEPDX, 3DPX, OMPA, and [...]

On September 15th, check out a free screening of Connected: The Film followed by a Q&A with Stefan Nadelman from Bent Image Lab. Doors open at 6:30pm. Looks interesting. It’s at the Clinton Street Theater.

This Saturday, Sept. 10, Portland will be hotter than the surface of the sun. Get yourself into the cool of the Hollywood Theater and watch some animation, people! The homegrown and great Northwest Animation Festival presents a collection of the best of the 2011 fest at the Hollywood from 7pm to 11pm, complete with artist Q&As [...]

Originally founded by Portland animation legend  Will Vinton , the Portland Creative Conference [...]

This Sunday, July 24th, ASIFA Portland welcomes you to Shorts3, an afternoon of animation with Portland legends Joan Gratz, Marilyn Zornado, and Jim Blashfield, hosted by Dennis Nyback. On July 24, at 1pm, at Cinema 21, we’ll be viewing new and recent works from these ground-breaking and award-winning artists, with audience Q/A and discussion. This [...]

From PNCA and the NW Film Center on Monday, July 25 at 7pm at the Whitsell Auditorium: The boundaries between high and low dissolve in this program of work by artists who push animation beyond traditional conventions and into the intersection with visual art experimentation. Presented in conjunction with Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Boundary Crossings: [...]

Music, voice and sound effects all performed live in front of low-budget 1970s stop-mo dinosaurs getting shot by lasers? Sign me up. Performances are tonight and tomorrow (6/23 and 6/24) at the Hollywood Theater– click here for details.

As Brad Bird points out, the five things to remember when making a film are “story, story, story, storytelling, and story.” So if you’re developing a film project, you may want to get on this. OSNAP (the Open Studio Network Animation Project) is putting on a story session where independent animators can workshop ideas, pitch storyboards, [...]