Stop Talking about your Film and Make It.

That’s what you keep telling yourself. Well, why wait another year or another day? The Northwest Film Center School of Film is offering an array of weeknight and weekend hands-on classes, starting throughout January.  Write that romance you’re always thinking about, launch that documentary, meet other aspiring makers and creatives, get a leg up on [...]

Winter Break Animation for Grades 7-12

COMPUTER ANIMATION FOR GRADES 7-12 at the Northwest Film Center School of Film   MONDAY-FRIDAY, DEC 26-30, NOON-5 PM Bring two-dimensional graphic artwork to life using Adobe Flash software on Apple digital workstations. Learn how animators create motion using techniques such as keyframes, squash and stretch, and metamorphosis. Animate video stills and/or scan in and [...]

On the New York Times “Couch-Potato Menu” for This Weekend’s Viewing: “Jingle All the Way”

A nice review in The New York Times for the holiday special, “Jingle All The Way”.  Bent Image Lab, a Portland, Oregon company, produced this 22 minute animated short for the Hallmark Channel over a six month period.  It is set to premier this Friday 25th. Another review here from Animation Insider. Put your feet [...]

Make it Short – 40th Anniversary Contest

Make it sad. Make it funny. Make it terrifying. Make it in 40 seconds. To celebrate the Film Center’s 40th anniversary, we invite Northwest filmmakers to enter the MAKE IT SHORT film contest. No matter what genre or format—narrative, documentary, experimental, animation, 16mm, camera phone, DSLR—we want to see it, but keep it short: 40 seconds or less. SUBMISSION [...]

Check Out the Teaser Trailer for LAIKA’s “ParaNorman”

The first teaser trailer for LAIKA’s next stop-motion animated feature film “ParaNorman” was just released, and it looks great. We are looking forward to the film’s release in 2012! Check out the video above.