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Matt spent all last week at the Platform Animation Festival in Portland, OR.  Some of the highlights of the event included reconnecting with our old friend Joel Trussell and meeting a number of animation luminaries like Will Vinton and Bill Plympton.  Matt and Joel were some the very first professional Flash animators back in the days of olde and were the Flash Directors for Zombie College.  Matt and I were heart broken when Joel and his lovely wife Kelly moved back to Tennesse from Sea-Town back in 2000.

Matt’s posted a few photos from the event and will be posting more on his Flickr site when I can wrestle time for him to do so. 

Joel at the Frederator’s “drink and draw”–he’s definitely drinking and drwawering

Bill Plympton at the pik-e-nik

Will Vinton also getting some picnic action

Amid Amidi of Cartoon Brew

From our dear friend, Ms. Ellen Forney:

Dear friends -
Please come to the opening reception of my art show, “Big Fuckin’ Hands”! I’ll be showing six new 2′ x 2′ paintings in the Hands series, as well as two of the 4′ x 4′ pieces from the Seattle Erotic Art Festival. It’ll be a party! I hope you can make it!
xo
Ellen.
BIG FUCKIN’ HANDS
Paintings by Ellen Forney
June 20 - August 1, 2007
Opening reception: Wed., June 20, 6 - 8pm
Liberty
517 - 15th Ave. E. (at Republican, in Capitol Hill)
206-323-9898
www.LibertyBars.com

Check out the Cold Hard Flash article on our friend and confidant (shhhh!) Joel Trussell.  We told you that Matt worked on Cold Cut’s “This Island Earth”.  See!  We didn’t make it up. 

The Drinky Crow Show created by cartoonist Tony Millionaire and Eric Kaplan will have its debut on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim on May 13th. 

Tony Millionaire is best known for his Maakies comic strip which has appeared in The New Yorker and The Stranger.  Seattle’s own Fantagraphics has published six Maakies collections as well as two of Millionaire’s graphic novels.

Eric Kaplan has been a writer for Malcom in the Middle, The Late Show with David Letterman, and Futurama.  He was also creator of the animated web series Zombie College (which our own Matt Tamaru/Rodriguez was the Flash Animation Director).

Watch the trailer for the show on the Fantagraphic’s Blog.

It’s been a sad month. We just lost Joe Barbera, and now Iwao Takamoto, creator of Scooby-Doo has died. Takamoto was vice-president at Warner Brothers at the time of his death.

See BBC and Cartoon Brew for more on the incredible life of Iwao Takamoto. May he rest in peace.

Plexipixel is proudly sponsoring Cinema K, the children’s film festival held at the Northwest Film Forum on Capitol Hill.

We have a handful of comp tickets and if you send an email to us, you may just get a pass for two! First come first serve.

The festival runs January 27th - February 4th. NW Film Forum is located at 1515 12th Ave between Pine and Pike on Seattle’s Capitol Hill.

For a calendar of events, please go to nwfilmforum.org

Please come down to the new Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery this Saturday, December 16 at 6:00 PM for a special evening with two of the nation’s most accomplished and influential cartoonists - Peter Bagge and Ellen Forney.

This FREE event takes place at 1201 S. Vale Street (at Airport Way), in Seattle’s lively Georgetown neighborhood. Phone: 206.658.0110.

Bagge will screen rarely seen animated shorts interspersed with tales of the glory days of grunge, which inspired the stories in “Buddy Does Seattle.”

Ellen will resprise her wildly entertaining multimedia performance based on the stories from her recent “I Love Led Zeppelin” collection.

Take care of all of your last minute holiday shopping with the world’s largest selection of Fantagraphics Books. Make an evening of it by enjoying the funky ambience of Georgetown’s many cafes, galleries and nightclubs. See ya there.

Matt and I got to meet Roy E. Disney after his amazing presentation at Animaticus’ “2D or Not 2D Festival” last month.  Roy’s talk was all about Disney and the cutting edge work that Disney (and mostly Walt) spearheaded.  Being engaged to an animator (hi Matt!), there were a lot of specifics in the presentation that I knew about but Roy still brought up so much that just blew me away.

One of my favorite highlights of the presentation was getting a peek at ”Lorenzo”, a 2d/3d Disney short about an obnoxious fat cat whose tail takes over.  It was another Disney triumph with great characters, and engaging storyline and amazing animation!

There was also a photo of the multiplane camera created by Ub Iwerks actually in production of a Disney project.  Just a year earlier, Matt and I had been able to bask in the glory of the camera in person at the Disney Backlot thanks to our dear friend Brian Elling.  It was fun to see an image of it at work. 

Being a former member of Roy’s “Save Disney”, I feel priviledged to have been able to personally thank Roy for all he has done for Disney and the art of animation.  Both Matt and I look forward to watching the new chapter of the Disney story starring Roy and Lasseter unfold!

The historic Everett Theater in Everett, WA is hosting the first ever 2D OR NOT 2D Festival November 17th-19th.

The Animaticus Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, teaching, and evolving the art of traditional animation in a digital age, is proud to present the “2D OR NOT 2D Animated Film Festival” at the historical Everett Theater in Everett, Washington.

Keynote speakers include Roy E Disney (who will present a retrospective of award-winning and/or break-through Disney short films from “Steamboat Willie” to “Lorenzo”), and cartoonist Tom Wilson of Ziggy fame.