Nancy Cartwright is coming to Rochester… Tickets are selling fast. Get yours before they sell out! High Falls Film Fest Animation Program 2002 Animatus Studio and the High Falls Film Festival are pleased to welcome Nancy Cartwright to this year’s program. Best known as the spiky-headed underachiever Bart Simpson, Emmy™ Award-winning voice actor Nancy Cartwright […]

Greetings from Animatus! Here’s the latest news from Rochester’s premiere animation studio. AN EVENING OF SHORTS Featuring Su and Mo Su and Mo, the lap-dancing bad boys of animation, have grown too large to be confined by a mere computer terminal. Join us at the Montage Grill on Sunday, June 30 to see how their […]

Greetings from Animatus! Thanks to everyone who has signed up for our newsletter recently. Here’s what’s been going on at Animatus Studio… THE ANIMATION WORKSHOP — STUDENT ZOETROPES On the first day of our Basic Animation class, students have the opportunity to make zoetrope strips. These are sequences of ten pictures, demonstrating a “loop” of […]

Season’s Greetings from Animatus! When compiling this latest newsletter, it was our intention to crow about our fantastic experience with the High Falls Film Festival. The screenings were well received, and attendees took the opportunity to converse with filmmakers Faith Hubley and Sybil DelGaudio. The Faith Hubley Workshop was a great success as well. Unexpectantly, […]

Greetings from Animatus! It’s been a busy month, between commercial work and two sessions of The Animation Workshop. We’ve spent spare moments preparing for the High Falls Film Festival, taking place in Rochester this October 17-21. Focusing on women in film, the festival is honoring animator Faith Hubley this year with a retrospective of her […]

Greetings from Animatus! Holy Mackerel! Have you seen the new Animatus Reel? We’ve put together two and a half minutes of the best our studio has to offer. The reel features examples of our work in such diverse fields as: traditional animation, 3D and 2D CGI, stop motion, rotoscoping, morphing, nonlinear editing, logos, characters, web […]

Ever wonder what goes into producing our “Derf the Viking” cartoons? Of course you have. Now go behind the scenes at our Derf site. Hear voice outtakes! Play pencil tests forwards and backwards! It’s loads of fun. You’ll need the Flash Plug-in to experience the joy. Fans of Su and Mo beware! Recently, one of […]

Greetings from Animatus! There’s plenty to talk about in this installment. Several projects have reached completion in the last few weeks. First is the Flash-animated music video for the DINNER DOGS. Their song, “Totally Me,” encourages kids to be whatever they want to be when they grow up. We took their pre-conceived characters and made […]

Animatus News Hello everyone! Our interactive short, Su and Mo, the Lap-dancing Bad Boys of Animation, is now part of the showcase of independent work at Icebox.com. Su and Mo are a couple of down-and-out animators who just want to get their movies made. Unfortunately, they must resort to extreme lap-dancing to raise money for […]

Greetings from Animatus! Many thanks to those who made this year’s Ottawa festival so enjoyable. It was a week full of fun and talent. The screenings seemed to offer something for everyone: from the works of Paul Fierlinger, Gene Deitch, and George Pal, to the “bebop” retrospectives and autopsy documentaries (don’t ask). We actually had […]