Time to see some amazing award-winning animated films folks!
The award-winning entries to our digital 2024 'DRAWTASTIC Animation Festival'.
Hi folks!
The ‘GURU’ will be back soon with some exciting announcements from the realms of Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit. However, for the time being, let me put on my animation hat to announce the winning films and honored finalists for our 2024 ‘DRAWTASTIC Animation Festival’ screening show.
Now in its 14th season, the ‘DRAWTASTIC Animation Festival’ has always sought to honor, celebrate and showcase the work of young and professional animated short filmmakers from around the world. This year is no exception! Therefore, this newsletter is to tell you that you can watch our 2024 festival winners show (plus many others from previous years) via our FREE-to-download ‘DRAWtastic!’ animation app. The app also contains competitively-priced courses on all things 2D (especially animation, but not exclusively so) as well as interviews with some of the industry’s movers and shakers. Further details about everything can be found here…
(Above.) The 2024 festival trailer.
We think our show, and our app, are particularly important right now as with the advent of computer and AI technology, our traditional hand-drawn world is significantly threatened. We therefore believe, now more than ever, that there’s very much a need for this kind of counter-technology platform for talented young animation creators the world over. Consequently, our support of all creative works relating to the ‘humble pencil’ - digital or otherwise - is something that the ‘DRAWTASTIC Animation Festival’ and the ‘DRAWtastic!’ app can be rightly proud of. Audiences for this 2024 event will surely not fail to be impressed by the refreshingly diverse and varied form of hand-crafted animation represented in the show.
‘Sprout’ ~ Director Addison Fujimoto. (‘Best Student Animation’ Golden Pencil Award.)
The most outstanding films submitted to ‘DRAWTASTIC Animation Festival’ each year are honored with our respected ‘Golden Pencil Award’. Other entries deemed noteworthy are honored as “Finalist” films – all of which are featured in this year’s event, which lasts for almost 1-hour. We also support a ‘Junior Golden Pencil Award’ category too – which is a special section specifically reserved for high school level (or younger) students who are amazing enough to create their own animated films.
‘Macaroni and Cheese-Fish Stew’ ~ Director Tiffany Zhang. (‘Junior Golden Pencil Award winning film.)
The ‘DRAWtastic!’ app is the recent brainchild of veteran traditional animator, author and instructor, Tony White – who also founded the ‘DRAWTASTIC Animation Festival’ 14 seasons ago. Tony believes that the best way to communicate anything to the world these days is via the most popular media delivery platform there is right now – the phone, tablet or desktop computer based app.
‘Who Do We Appreciate’ ~ Director Chad Stewart. (‘Best 2D Animation’ Golden Pencil Award.)
As indicated, the ‘DRAWtastic!’ app is FREE to download and is effectively designed to be a one-stop-shop for the young animators of today and in the future. In the absence of a formal sponsor for the festival or the app, we are hoping that sales from our excellent (and very affordable) courses on the app will help us continue our supportive work far into the future. So please do subscribe to everything we do if you can – even if it simply means you’ll download the app, watch our amazing festival films, and admire the work that’s been done by the often unrecognized animated filmmakers around the world. Again, you can find out more about the app, and the means of downloading it, here…
‘Pixels.com Logo Raising’ ~ Director Jason Doll. (‘Best Advertising Animation’ Golden Pencil Award.)
And remember, if you’re an animated filmmaker (of any kind) – or you know someone who is – films can already be entered now for our 2025 DRAWTASTIC Animation Festival event via the FilmFreeway website. Entries submitted here will most certainly help us keep our festival going…
https://filmfreeway.com/DRAWTASTIC2025
‘Nomad’ ~ Director Amir Vafael. (‘Best Music-based Animation’ Golden Pencil Award.)
And finally… I hope you’ll enjoy the show! (As well as all the other previous shows on the app.) And after you’ve seen it all, we’d love to hear what you think of our festival, its films, or even the ‘DRAWtastic!’ app!
Click the button here to share your thoughts…
And do ‘watch this space’ for more from the GURU soon!
Namaste!
Tony.