Congratulations

Danny Young, a technical animator at Rhythm & Hues, has become a familiar face volunteering at the Animation Archive and ASIFA events. Last night, the Board of Directors of ASIFA-Hollywood appointed him to join them on the Board. Danny will be representing ASIFA-Hollywood to the video game industry. Well deserved. Congratulations, Danny!


Henry Selick with Danny Young at the Annie Awards

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Volunteer Call: Pick Up in Mid-Wilshire and Burbank

I'm looking for a volunteer who can pick up two video editing decks in the mid-Wilshire district and deliver them to us here at the archive in Burbank. If you can help us out with this, drop me an email at sworth@animationarchive.org. We will also be needing some help soon with moving some material in Burbank. If you have a truck or large car and can help out with that, let me know. Thanks!

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Meta: Scanning, Traffic & Intern Opportunities

Magazine cover by Vernon Grant.
Thanks to Gabriel Valles
for sharing this with us!

• If you are digitizing rare material from your own collection, please consider scanning at a resolution 600dpi or higher and send your scans to us to add to the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive.


• Last month, the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive blog served over 200,000 articles. This is our all time record for traffic. In a few days, our SiteMeter button in the sidebar will register its 1 millionth unique visitor! Many thanks to all of you who have linked to us from your websites and blogs, and those who have told their friends about all the amazing art to be found here.


• Now that school is starting up again, we are looking for interns who are interested in helping out at the Archive. Hours are flexible, depending on your class schedule, and you might be able to arrange class credit for your work through your school. Call me at 818 842 8330 during our regular hours (1pm to 9pm Tuesday through Friday) if you are interested.

Thanks
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive

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Illustration: Gemma on Illustration

This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for more jaw dropping examples of classic illustration.


You might remember me mentioning Gemma Ross the intern from Dartmouth who did incredible work on designing our database last Spring. Well, she's back for a little while until the end of Summer, and she is making great strides to take the database to the next level.

As she works on the database, Gemma has had the opportunity to see a lot of the amazing cartoons and images in the archive. She's been thinking about everything she's seen and has posted some of her theories to her blog, Los Gemeles Adventures! It's extemely gratifying for me to sit back quietly and watch the changes in the interns we have working here. Being surrounded great cartooning and wonderful artwork of all kinds has opened up their horizons and made them better artists and better people.

Gemma Ross on Classic Illustration

More Pretty Things From Gemma

Dulac's The Tempest

The beautiful illustrations Gemma comments on were contributed to the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive by Minh Lai of Nocloo.com. Minh's site is worth bookmarking. It's a treasure trove of classic illustration and a great tribute to the artists who created these amazing visuals.

Thanks
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive
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Meta: 2006 Thanks

As we enter a new year, it's time to look back and thank the people who made everything that the archive accomplished in 2006 possible...

ANIMATION ARCHIVE SPONSORS







ANIMATION ARCHIVE ALLIANCES







ANIMATION ARCHIVE ANGELS

John Kricfalusi, Nancy Cartwright, Fred Seibert, Fred Ladd, June Foray, Mike Van Eaton

ANIMATION ARCHIVE HEROS

Margaret Kerry-Willcox, Joseph Campana, Myrtis Butler, Tom Sito, Stephen Worth, Leonard Maltin, B. Paul Husband, Flying Saucer Animation Studios, ToonHub.com, Gerard Miller, Ragnar LittleCartoons.com, 80sCartoons.net, David Soto, Mervyn Meyer, Willard Wolfshohl, Fred Grandinetti, Vincent Waller. Clarke Pencer, Rita Street, Steven Gordon, Jeramy Bray, Angus Glashier, Brian Behlendorf, Fred Hatfield, Fred Wolf, Paul Dini, Tom Kenny, Christian Ziebarth, Ron Clements, Candi Milo

ANIMATION ARCHIVE VOLUNTEERS

Jon Reeves, Jason Jones, Marc Deckter, Paul Abramson, Victoria Schwerin, David Gustafson, Chuck Pennington, Milton Knight, Louis Zee, Theron Trowbridge, Anita Pacheco, Julian Narino, Michael Eusey, Lois Keller, Marc Crisafulli, Chad Coyle, Richard Crowther, Jeremy Crowther, Jim Mortonsen, Claudio Riba, David Gemmill, Ryan Khatam, Dan Gizzi, Eric Graf, Annette Zilinskas, Art Fuentes, Michael Fallik, Matt Taylor, Max Ward, Corbett Vanoni, Clarke Snyder

We all owe these people and organizations a round of applause for helping make the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive a reality in its first year of operation.

Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive

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