The ASIFA needs your help: Visit them, blog about them, donate! ‘What is the ASIFA’, you may ask yourself. Quote:“The International Animated Film Society: ASIFA-Hollywood has embarked on an ambitious project to create an animation archive, museum, and library for the benefit of the animation community, students and general public.”
This may sound academic, but can you imagine what modern animation, even modern comedy would be without Tex Avery for example? Helping the ASIFA is ensuring the quality of future entertainment.
“So far, we have digitized well over 7,000 images and 2,500 animated films. There are over 300 articles hosted here on the Archive blog covering a wide range of subjects. The blog is followed by readers all over the world, and our traffic is averaging 150,000 articles a month. We’ve mounted three major exhibits in the archive space. The animation database is now up and operating, and volunteers are working nearly every day to enter and cross link all the movie files, images and data. Most importantly, we have brought a wealth of information to you… information you can use, like the $100K Drawing Course… information about the history of the medium we all love… and perhaps most importantly, information about the pioneering artists to whom we owe our gratitude for creating the art form of animation.”
Here are the top ten reasons the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive deserves your support…
10.) Special Exhibits At The Archive
9.) Features On Playboy Cartoonists
8.) Art Instruction Materials
7.) Classic Cartoons To Study
6.) Golden Age Illustration
5.) Historical Info & Interviews
4.) The Cartoon Hall Of Fame
3.) Classic Golden Books
2.) Vintage Newspaper Cartoons And Comics
1.) The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course
And there’s even more…
The ASIFA’s support site.
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