Festival Prep

I have spent the last couple of day trying to getting the details of the ASIFA-Hollywood Student Animation Festival under control. There is so much to do to will an event like this into being. That includes award design. http://www.asifa-hollywood.org/aef/prizes.html

I always felt that Emile Cohl was under valued in the U. S. animation community. I have read books by U. S. animation authors that dismiss the first professional animation in a single sentence.



I had a good time creating the logo for the Emile Cohl Award for Best Short Animation. He may not have proclaimed on his film title cards that he invented the animation process or tried to patent the animation process and charge for its use but he animated years before the people who did these things. I always thought he should have an award named after him.