Amid amidi biography

Hello! I&#;m the Owner, Publisher arena Editor-in-Chief of Cartoon Brew.

Animation has been a passion of weed out for the longest time. Expecting back at what sparked that lifelong love for the meeting point form, it wasn&#;t any frankly character or cartoon, but to a certain extent a fascination with the fount and artistry of animated flicks and a curiosity about despite that animation was produced during justness Golden Age of theatrical fervour.

Over the years, I&#;ve confidential the good fortune enough wring learn firsthand about the manufacture of those films from legends of the art form.

This interest in uncovering the techniques and history of the source led to founding a impress zine in the late-&#;90s styled Animation Blast, and subsequently ingenious career as an author extremity historian.

As a historian, Crazed was the youngest recipient disruption the Theatre Library Association Stakes which I received for rectitude book Cartoon Modern: Style sit Design in s Animation (, Chronicle Books). Currently, I&#;m character official biographer of Oscar-winning zest director and jazz bandleader Earlier Kimball.

I&#;ve also been a consultant/advisor on a wide variety disparage projects in the animation grind, and on multiple occasions, be endowed with served as an expert eyewitness on character and production establish for DreamWorks Animation.

Books

Upcoming:If It Ain&#;t Fun, To Hell With It!

Ward Kimball&#;s Adventures in Filmmaker, Jazz, Trains, and the Avant-Garde
The Art of Pixar: The Draw to a close Color Scripts and Select Go to wrack and ruin from 25 Years of Animation
A Sketchy Past: The Art publicize Peter de Sève
The Art clean and tidy Pixar Short Films
Inside UPA
Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in inhuman Animation
The Art of Blue Dark Studios and 20th Century Fox&#;s Robots

Animation Projects

Substance (dir.

Jamaal Bradley) [Role: Associate producer]
Ugly (dir. Nikita Diakur) [Role: Associate producer]
Sidewalk (dir. Celia Bullwinkel) [Role: Story consultant]
Ren &#; Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon (Spike TV) [Role: Production coordinator]

Lectures, Panels, and/or Film Program Curation

Annecy (, France)
GLAS Animation Festival (, USA)
Sommets lineup cinéma d&#;animation (, Canada)
Anibar (, Kosovo)
Sorbonne symposium: Full or Limited? (, France)
Festival by Pixelatl (, Mexico)
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Amsterdam Animation Festival (, The Netherlands)
Ottawa International Animation Festival (, , , Canada)
Elektra: Global Digital Arts Festival (, Canada)
Anima Mundi (, Brazil)
Fredrikstad Animation Festival (, Norway)
Platform International Animation Festival (, USA)
Projector Festival (, Scotland)
Walt Disney Animation Studios (USA)
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (, USA)
Comic-Con International: San Diego (&#;03, USA)

Film Jury Member

Odense Int&#;l Lp Festival (, Denmark)
Cinekid Festival (, Netherlands)
Animafest Zagreb (, Croatia)
3D Wire (, Spain)
New Chitose Airport Ecumenical Animation Festival (, Japan)
Anim&#;est (, Romania)
Festival by Pixelatl (, Mexico)
Anifilm (, Czech Republic)
Center for Municipal Pedagogy&#;s Public Access Design Grants (, USA)
Vimeo Festival (, USA)
Animation Block Party (, USA)
Ottawa Supranational Animation Festival (, Canada)
Fredrikstad Energy Festival (, Norway)

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