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The 12 rules of character animation (Hebrew)
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Learn animation with Pixar's Alex Orrelle
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ISRAELI ANIMATION NEWS

18.06.03
TA- LA Master Class

Creative Producer Workshop on the Tel-Aviv Cinematheque
Download Hebrew Program

17.06.03
Money for Nothing?

Nir Hermoni offers some advice on becoming a freelance animator (Hebrew)

12.06.03
Spirited Away in Israel

Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar winning "Spirited Away" arrives 03.07.03 (Hebrew)

04.06.03
Meet a Pixar Producer

Osant Shorer, a producer in Pixar's short film department, will be here at 11.06.03

16.05.03
Yosef Bau Memorial

26.05.03, 18:00, at the TA Cinematheque (Hebrew PDF)

16.04.03
Fantasy Convension 2003

April 20-21 at Mofet Hall, Ramat-Gan (Hebrew)

04.04.03
Article: Pixels and Lead

Animating with a computer and a pencil (Hebrew)

25.02.03
Anime Festival

The First International Animation Festival in Sderot, March 17-19 (Hebrew)

01.02.03
News from Studio RIF

"More Precious than Gold" an international success, plus a North American premiere of "The Evil Wizard"

15.01.03
Zack Schwartz Memoriam

Zack Schwartz passed away on Monday, January 12. He leaves his wife Drora and daughter Yael and son who lives in America.
Zack was an animator and director at Disney in the mid 30's and was one of the founding fathers of UPA.

03.12.02
Max Kor's Mousetrap

Israeli artist wins 3DLuVr's CG image contest
View Max Kor and other 3D artists' work here

02.12.02
Sack Exercise

On the next step in the
Animation Forum's Workshop, you're asked to create a jumping sack.
Details on hermoni.com

02.12.02
Life is Yellow!

HandsUP studio has completed a series of eight commercials for Lipton.
info and images here

26.11.02
"Cinema City" Opens

Described as the largest entertainment center in the world, this complex offers 21 Cinema screens (including a giant IMAX-compatible one)
article on FishEye (Hebrew)

26.11.02
"Chop Sticks" on CGChannel

Yuval Hazan's CG-animated kung-fu action short "Chop Sticks" is featured on the famous site CGChannel.com
info and download here

20.11.02
News From Dovi Keich
The Israeli comics artist and animator Dovi Keich has a new book, a new site and an animated pilot
Details and images here (Hebrew)

17.11.02
Oren BenTov Interview on Animators-Online
Our partner site, Animators-Online, talks with "Camera Obscura" graduate Oren BenTov, creator of "Bernie Hiwash".
Way to go, Oren!
Read it here

17.11.02
Meny Hilsenrad Interviewed on 3DM
International 3D site hosts an interview with Israeli animator.
Way to go, Meny!
Read it here

20.11.02
Subres on the Hebrew Animation Forum
The creators of the successful "Roadkill" animated-series visited the Hebrew Animation Forum on 18.11.02.
Read about it here
(Hebrew)

29.10.02
Pichi-Poy Finished International Cheetos Commercial
A mixture of 2D characters, 3D backgrounds and some live-action brings the International brand to Israel in the new Cheetos commercial from Pichi-Poy. Can this be an international success?
Details and a full, high quality download here (Hebrew)

11.10.02
HandsUP Studio Finished Cider Hagalil Commercial
HandsUP studio has completed a short animation ad for Cider Hagalil.
The commercial features several apples having a good time in a hot tub. The ad was produced entirely in 3d animation.
Details and imaged here

21.09.02
Part 5 of Alex Orrelle's Animation Workshop
To complete the walk cycle we made on assignment 3 and 4, we need to add swinging arms. This is the final part of this walk cycle exercise.

View the guidelines and the current submissions

18.09.02
BAA 2002 on The 18th Haifa International Film Festival
Tsvika Oren discusses the British Animation Awards 2002, as seen on Haifa's film festival, and goes on to talk about Aardman, Bob the builder, animation techniques and more.

Read the article
(Hebrew)

18.09.02
"Stanga" Produces Interactive CD's
"Stanga Online Tools" finished the production of various interactive CD's containing 2D and 3D animation.

Details and images here
(Hebrew)

14.09.02
The 18th Haifa International Film Festival
The Haifa film festival celebrates 20 years on Hol Hamo'ed Succoth.
Opening on September 21.

More details here

07.09.02
"Camera Obscura" Graduates Exhibition
The famous Tel-Aviv art school invites you to attend its annual "Digital Media" graduates exhibition.
The opening is on Thursday, 19.09.02, 20:00, at Rival 5 street, Tel Aviv.
View the invitation

07.09.02
Part 4 of Alex Orrelle's Animation Workshop
Assignment 4 is the second part of the basic walkcycle we started making in Assignment 3. This time, we're concentrating on the torso motion.

View the guidelines and the current submissions

15.08.02
The 12 Basic Animation Principles
A Hebrew translation of a text describing the basic animation principles.
Everything you need to know about timing, ease in/out, arcs, anticipation, exaggeration, squash and stretch and so on...
Read it on Nir Hermoni's site
(Hebrew)

10.08.02
Yair Kantor Q&A
The Israeli animator Yair Kantor ("Iron Giant", "Stuart Little 2", "Harry Potter"...) paid a visit to the Hebrew Animation Forum and answered the surfers questions. Here's the edited session on Nir Hermoni's site

02.08.02
Part 3 of Alex Orrelle's Animation Workshop
Things get serious on the workshop, now stepping into the realm of character animation. Alex explains what's important in the creation of a simple walk cycle, and outlines what you can do to get a believable one.
View the guidelines and the current submissions

23.07.02
HandsUP Animation Studio Finishes Fruit-Tella Commercial
Some info about the new Fruit-Tella toffee commercial, including hires images.
Thanks to Ofer Rubin from HandsUP for the info.
Say, doesn't this guy look like the Tapuz mascot...?
Fruit-Tella Commercial
(Hebrew)

19.07.02
Part 2 of Alex Orrelle's Animation Workshop
"The Animation Workshop", a Hebrew Animation Forum project, enters stage two. This time, animators are required to create a dangling chain of 3 cylinders.
Details, guidelines and submissions are available on Nir Hermoni's site.
Please send your animations to nir@hermoni.com.

03.07.02
Comics, Cartoon and Animation Festival - Call for Entries
The Tel Aviv festival for comics, cartoon and animation is taking place the second year, this time on August 19-21, 2002, at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque.
For participating, you can send any short animation film you've made.
For more details please contact Ruth Yoel: ruthyoel@netvision.net.il.
More details on the animation forum
(Hebrew)

03.07.02
Forum Project: Alex Orrelle's "The Animation Workshop"
The Hebrew Animation Forum is happy to announce "The Animation Workshop".
Pixar animator Alex Orrelle will give animation assignments and critique the animators' creations.
First assignment: Bouncing ball. 72 frames (at 24fps).
More details: (Hebrew - on the forum) / (English - on Nir Hermoni's site)

02.07.02
"More Precious Than Gold" by Studio RIF
"More Precious Than Gold", an animated film made by Studio RIF, was awarded a prize as Best Foreign Entry for 2002 at the Congregation B'nai Chaim Film Festival in Murrieta, California.
Click here for more info (and images) about the production.

24.06.02
Victor Navone on the Hebrew Animation Forum
Pixar animator Victor Navone, office mate of Israeli Alex Orrelle was the forum's guest on 23.06.02, 21:00. Victor is the creator of the famous "Alien Song" animation. He's animated some shots on Pixar's "Monsters inc.", and is now creating a new short called "Big Bang".

12.06.02
News from Roni Oren
Roni Oren's animation studio has been working on two interesting projects.


More details here (Hebrew)

11.06.02
Frisbee Challenge Public Voting
The animation forum's "Fellowship of the Frisbee" challenge is entering the voting stage. Everybody's welcome to view the animations and vote for his/her favorite ones.
The Fellowship of the Frisbee: (English
/ Hebrew)

03.06.02
Alex Orrelle on the Hebrew Animation Forum
Pixar animator Alex Orrelle was the forum's guest yesterday. Alex answered questions about Pixar, Manex, Matrix 2, Victor Navone, Alex's own projects, Pixar shorts and general animation and employment tips.
Here's a full transcript of the conversation: (Hebrew
/ English)

30.05.02
International Student Film Festival
The 9th International Student Film Festival will take place at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, 1-8 June 2002. The festival promises to be a giant celebration of young, amateur, avant-garde and mind-provoking films that attack and enhance the mainstream media from all angles.
More details here

29.05.02
Hebrew Animation Forum Meeting
The first forum meeting will take place on Wednesday, 16.06.02, 19:00, at Tapuz's offices in Ben-Gurion 30, Ramat-Gan. Lots of great animations to be seen...
More details here (Hebrew)

28.05.02
What's New at Polygon Animation Studio
Kfir Ram and Tal Lotan from Studio Polygon have completed some high-profile projects during the first half of this year. Among those are commercials, patents, internet sites, animated TV series and short films.
More details and images here (Hebrew)

27.05.02
Petition: Give Sabra a Series of Her Own
Sign the online petition to give Sabra, Marvel Comics' Israeli super heroine, a series of her own.

More details about Sabra and the petition here

 
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