Fred Seibert's Blog

I just got my copy of the newly indepdendent ASIFA Magazine, and I wanted to remind you all to think about subscribing. (They make it kind of hard when you get to the ASIFA website, but don’t be discouraged.)

ASIFA serves the whole wide world of animation, so it’s a bit less cartoony than my personal taste (and maybe yours too), but it a great reminder (along with Channel Frederator) just what a big world we’re all part of, with animation being a persuasive medium to tell all of humankind’s stories.

Support the magazine, support ASIFA. I’m proud to part of this artform, and I know you are too.

Dave Levy, the talented director, author, and President of ASIFA-East, gave The Meth Minute 39 a great send-off, screening, and Q&A, the other night here in New York. He wrote about it kindly today on his blog, and we’ve got a few pictures from the screening here. We were all thrilled that so many of the cast and crew could make it over and see themselves on the big screen. Thanks Dave, thanks ASIFA-East, thanks everyone.

I spent a lot of time with ASIFA-East President/animator/author David Levy this week. Of course, he sponsored our Random! Cartoons screening the other night, but I forgot to mention the NY panel he asked me to be on at New York’s ACM SIGGRAPH on self promotion and how to get noticed in the cartoon biz. My fellow distinguished panels included our friend, filmmaker Patrick Smith, recruiter Ila Abramson, and PR/marketing expert Karma Martell.

Oh, the art above? That’s the fantasticness what happens when I bring our new colleague Jeaux Janovsky comes along to an event. Thanks Jeaux, your notes are awesome.

One of our favorite composer’s young sons were at the great screening of Random! Cartoons at ASIFA-East (join!) Tuesday night and we received this picture in the email afterwards (notice the logo print-throughs from our program):

“It’s not that Sammy’s not interested in hearing about pitching, just that he’s interested in the kind of pitching that’s done in pinstripes and can be measured with a radar gun. I’ve attached what he drew to occupy himself during the panel discussion (I particularly like the textual annotations).

“But he loved the toons, and the rest of us (including [his brother] Jacob, who’s going to do two weeks of NY Film Academy this summer) enjoyed the panel as well.”