The Mumbai International Film Festival is the world’s biggest non-feature film festival and the prevalent genre look to be animation.
February 06th, 2014
The Mumbai International Film Festival is the world’s biggest non-feature film festival and the prevalent genre look to be animation. In the MIFF (2014), apart from 18 animation short films, 112 animation movies from other nations such as Bulgaria, France, Canada and Estonia will be shown and over 400 movies from 35 nations will be showcased.
Desai, the animator-film-maker, who has made various animations and special effect-based movies for ads and corporate films has been on juries at the New York Festival and won the awards at the World fest Houston, the Tehran Film Festival and the Prix Danube Festival.
Shilpa Ranade praised animator-film-maker globally, her animation movie Goopi Gawaiyaa Bagha Bajaiyaa got a standing ovation from legend Costa Gavras at the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) festival last year, and she is a member of the jury at MIFF 2014.
18 Films Competing For Animated Feature Film Oscar Nominations
Have a look at the films competing for nominations at the Academy Awards in the animated category that are in the running for this year s Oscars, Annies, Golden Globes, PGA, AFI and Visual Effects Society Awards. In our eyes, they are all winners, whether they take home the big trophies on those special nights or not!
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
