50 New Brief Movies Will Debut In L.A. As Half Of ‘Nouns Fest’
Nouns Fest will premiere October 10 on the United Theater in downtown L.A. This system will current 50 new animated brief movies from across the globe, starting from 30-seconds to 5 minutes in size.
A trailer for this system was launched right this moment:
The shorts, put collectively by digital arts collective Nouns, have been chosen from over 400 entries. Every of the chosen filmmakers acquired grants starting from $7,500 to $25,000 to fund the manufacturing of their movies.
The one instruction given to filmmakers was to include not less than one of many “Nouns” — digital characters generated by Nouns and auctioned off day by day at Nouns.wtf. All different artistic decisions, from the animation approach to story have been the selection of the filmmakers. As soon as the funds have been granted, creators have been topic to no intervention from the Nouns Fest crew.
“What you’ll see at Nouns Fest is creativity unleashed, pure and easy,” mentioned Stoopid Buddy co-founder Eric Towner, who can be a co-founder of Nouns Fest. “In a time of huge change and turmoil for the animation business, our aim was to finance, encourage and assist true artistic freedom, and the outcomes we’ve seen thus far have smashed by means of our sky-high expectations. We will’t wait to see these unimaginable works on the large display.” (Stoopid Buddy Studios itself will debut three new animated shorts created particularly for the occasion.)
Nouns Fest co-founder Walter J. Newman added, “We advised everybody concerned to take off all the security rails and present us what was of their deepest artistic minds, and that’s precisely what they’ve executed. If there’s one frequent thread that runs by means of the ninety minutes of animation that can debut at Nouns Fest, it’s artistic freedom—a spirit that will probably be felt in each facet of the occasion itself.”
Nouns Fest is co-founded by Towner, Newman, Playground Productions CPO Chris Waters, Nouns veteran Joel Cares, music govt Joshua Fisher, and animator/director Goldy. The occasion factors to a brand new means of funding indie animation by means of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which the group calls “digital collectibles.” To raised perceive the Nouns mannequin, go to Nounish.com.
One other commendable facet of this system is that each animator whose work is included within the occasion retains full rights to their work, content material, and characters in perpetuity, underscoring the group’s dedication to a free market of artwork and concepts.
For extra particulars on the occasion, together with tickets, go to Nounsfest.tv.
