Yesterday, 19 July 2013 I got this letter in response to my previous months submission to NFB Hothouse 9. As you can see, it's rejection letter. What I can say? Maybe next time I'll have better luck?

Dear All, The selections for Hothouse 9 have been made. Regrettably your proposals were not among the 6 finally selected this year. We received 99 applications and, needless to say, competition was fierce and debate was heated in an effort to fill the 6 available spots. Names of the successful applicants will be posted in the coming days on nfb.ca/hothouse.  We hope to post some of the apprenticeship experiences on the NFB blog during the production months. Thank you for taking the time to share your ideas and stories with us. We hope you'll keep us on your radar for future editions and wish you all the best in your work ahead. Jelena Popovic HH9 Associate Producer National Film Board of Canada

Today I'd like to share my next animated flick Wild Dance. It's very raw piece which I created in my spare time sitting in a coffee shops all across Toronto. Nothing special just tested the Animation Desk application and drawn on my iPad Mini using the digital pen Jot Pro. No sound yet.

Today Pneumo Hoof at email auction by ArtBomb

This is the print screen of ArtgBomb auction page with my art piece Pneumo Hoof represented on it.

Today, 12 Jan. 013, my limited edition Pneumo Hoof graphic piece featured on email auction of ArtBomb. Bids started at 6 A.M. and will be ending at 11 P.M. Eastern Time. The starting bid is just $650! So, you still have the opportunity to buy this unique graphic work and support the artist financially. Please, visit ArtBomb site, register and start biding!

Free Music Archive: Violeta Päivänkakkara - Kuu

Violeta's songs remainder me my childhood. The times when light was bright, clock was slow and space endless and mysterious... Time when I was small.
Free Music Archive: Violeta Päivänkakkara - Kuu

Sunday morning I been at The Old Book and Paper Show bought really beautiful and rare book Shadow Puppets, Shadow Theatres and Shadow Films by incomparable Lottie Reiniger! I will say more over, this book is signed by  the author. Yes, Frau Lotte herself autograph on a frontispice of this book.

I'm such a old fan of hers Adventures of Prince Achmed legendary movie of 1926. If you have not seen this film, just go and watch it.

My new one minute animation "Interconnection of Our Dreams"

Couple days ago passed a dead line for submitting an animation to Toronto Urban Film Festival. 

As always, I submitted my film almost among the last. But this time submitting become some kind of delaying record for me. To be completely accurate, I brought my film on the day later the official deadline! Belive me, I had my perfectly legal reasons to do so because festival didn't have working submission mechanism for the last day which was Sunday. Office was close and even didn't have a drop box by the doors. I couldn't upload a 980 Mb file either... But, thanks to the reasonable and receptive staff of the TUFF, who respond to my urgent e-mail promptly with vital information about possibility to bring my film in by Monday morning. End of story. At the end of July TUFF will decide which films is selected for showing. As I just find it out, this year was submitted more then 400 films! People sent films from all around the word. Incredible!

TUFF web site.

Last Monday "Pneumo Hoof " get scanned.

After long period of hesitation and empty expectations I finally did very important task - professional scanned one of my best, steam-punk picture Pneumo-Hoof created in a year 1996.

I have a plans to print it out as limited edition Giclée. Original size of this image is 29x21 inches.
I expecting to put my hans on first five copies by the end of June. So, if you want to buy it, drop me a line and I'll make a RSV for you.

My entry to the first Russian Animabook festival in Suzdal.

Thanks to my friend Igor Golev for sharing with me information about this new flip book festival. Deadline was very close and I decide to enter with my award winning Born to be.... More over, the required timing perfectly coincided with the timing of my old film. I just cut down out titles, ending, transition screens music e.t.c., and got at the end required 75 frames of my new flip book version of Born to be.... You can see page of the festival, but only in a Russian language. For some, hidden from me, reason they didn't translated it to English. Or, maybe I'm kind of blind at the end of the day and just couldn't see it? Any way, here it is: Flipbook.


Born to be... [Animabook festival] from ANIMABOOK on Vimeo.

NFB Animated Holiday Card 2011

The National Film Board of Canada wishes you a happy holiday season with this animated card by Malcom Sutherland.

ÉCO Volume 2 by B&C

So simple and so great idea! And I'm simple delighted to watch this flick over and over.
Those parisians definitely know how to shoot great books ad.



You can find more great animation on they web site @: B&C