Animation bloggers got their due at the Attack of the Blog panel. Don Sarto of
AWN moderated a discussion of five bloggers including Ward Jenkins of
Wardomatic, Aaron Simpson of
Cold Hard Flash. The discussion ranged from why all students and working animators should have their own blog, monetizing a blog and blogging as a full time-endeavour, how the animation discussion has been transformed due to the blogging explosion.
After the panel, I headed over to the waiting area near the Portland Center for the Performing Arts where a busload of attendees were driven to Suavie Island for the Platform Festival Picnic.
(left to right: animator Musa Brooker,
Amid Amidi of
Cartoon Brew, stop-motion animators Seamus Walsh and Mark Caballero of
Screen Novelties and contributors to Celebrity Deathmatch and Robot Chicken)
Labels: festivals, Platform, Portland
