Brave (Disney-Pixar) Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (DreamWorks) The Rabbi’s Cat (Autochenille/TF1/France 3) The Pirates! Band of Misfits( Aardman/Sony) The Secret World of Arrietty (Disney/Studio Ghibli) Rise of the Guardians (DreamWorks) ParaNorman (Focus/Laika) Hotel Transylvania (Sony) Dorothy of Oz (Summertime Ent.) Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax (Universal/Illumination) A SUPPLEMENT TO ANIMATION MAGAZINE Ice Age: Continental Drift (Fox/Blue Sky) Beauty and the Beast 3D (Disney) Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Tatsunoko’s Yatterman 1 Stop-motion animator Adam 2 3 French animator Émile Cohl 4 5 Beany and Cecil begins 6 7 launches in 1977. Elliot is born in 1972. is born in Paris in 1857. airing in 1962. Flickerfest Jan. 6-15 Palm Springs Int’l Film Festival Bondi Beach, Australia Jan. 5-16 New Year’s Day Palm Springs, CA Epiphany Full Metal Panic! begins 8 9 10 The Crab with the 11 Disney-Pixar head John 12 13 14 broadcast in Japan in 2002. Golden Claws opens in Lasseter is born in 1957. Belgium in 1947. It is the first Mike Judge’s King of the Hill Tintin story to be made into a premieres on Fox in 1997. feature film. Digital Hollywood at CES Wild & Scenic Environmental Jan. 9-11, Las Vegas, NV Int’l CES Forum Blanc Film Festival Hong Kong Licensing Show Jan. 10-13 Jan. 11-13 Jan. 13-15 Jan. 9-11, Hong Kong Las Vegas, NV Grand Bornard, France Nevada City, CA 15 16 17 18 Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists 19 20 21 Guild—Local 839 forms in 1952. Wile E. Coyote speaks for the first time in Operation Rabbit in 1952. Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival Jan. 19-22, Stuttgart, Germany Los Angeles Comic Book & Science Palm Springs Int’l Festival ShortsFest Fiction Convention Jan. 19-25, Palm Springs, CA Slamdance Film Festival Jan. 15 Sundance Film Festival Jan. 20-26 Game Design Expo Los Angeles, CA Jan. 19-29, Park City, UT Park City, UT Jan. 21-22, Vancouver, Canada 22 23 Voice actor Phil LaMarr 24 Yobi, the Five-Tailed Fox 25 26 27 28 is born in 1967. arrives in South Korea in 2007. Macworld | iWorld Jan. 26-28, San Francisco, CA Int’l 3D Film Festival Jan. 26-29, Bègles, France Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival Gérardmer Int’l Fantasy Film Festival Jan. 26 - Feb. 5, Santa Barbara, CA Jan. 27 - Feb. 4, Clermont-Ferrand, Jan. 25-29, Gérardmer, France ReelOut Queer Film & Video Festival France NATPE Toy Fair Rotterdam Int’l Film Festival Jan. 26 - Feb. 5, Kingston, ON, Göteborg Int’l Film Festival Jan. 23-25, Miami, FL Jan. 24-26, London, U.K. Jan. 25 - Feb. 5, Rotterdam, Holland Canada Jan. 27 - Feb. 6, Göteborg, Sweden 29 30 Guerilla marketing for 31 the Aqua Teen Hunger DECEMBER 2011 FEBRUARY 2012 Force movie causes a bomb S M T W T F S S M T W T F S scare in Boston, MA, in 2007. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 iLearning Forum 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 California Comic Convention Jan. 31 - Feb. 1, Paris, France 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 Jan. 29, Yorba Linda, CA Transmediale - Int’l Media Art Festival RealScreen Summit Berlin Jan. 29 - Feb. 1, Washington, DC Jan. 31 - Feb. 5, Berlin, Germany JANUARY 2012 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 JANUARY 2012 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 San Francisco Independent Film 29 30 31 Festival Mumbai Int’l Film Festival Feb. 2-16, San Francisco, CA Feb. 3-9, Mumbai, India Nürnberg Toy Fair Victoria Film Festival The Annie Awards Feb. 1-6, Nürnberg, Germany Groundhog Day Feb. 3-12, Victoria, BC, Canada Feb. 4, Los Angeles, CA 5 6 7 Animator and producer 8 Fox releases Ralph 9 10 11 Bruce Timm is born in 1961. Bakshi’s Wizards in 1977. VES Awards Berlinale Co-Production Market Feb. 7, Los Angeles, CA Feb. 9-17, Berlin, Germany Casual Connect Europe Tampa Bay Jewish Film Festival Feb. 7-9, Hamburg, Germany Feb. 9-19, Tampa Bay, FL Imagina Berlin Int’l Film Festival Animex Int’l Festival of Animation and Feb. 7-9, Monaco Feb. 9-19, Berlin, Germany Computer Games KidScreen Summit Dam Short Film Festival Portland Int’l Film Festival Animated Exeter Feb. 6-10, Middlesbrough, U.K. Feb. 7-10, New York, NY Feb. 8-11, Boulder City, NV Feb. 9-25, Portland, OR Feb. 11-19, Exeter, U.K. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Animation On Display Orange British Academy Film Awards MegaCon Feb. 18-19, San Francisco, CA Feb. 12, London, U.K. Feb. 17-19, Orlando, FL Sedona Int’l Film Festival American Int’l Toy Fair Katsucon Feb. 18-26, Sedona, AZ Feb. 12-15, New York, NY Feb. 17-19, National Harbor, MD European Youth Film Festival of Boulder Int’l Film Festival Anima and Folioscope Flanders Lincoln’s Birthday Valentine’s Day Feb. 16-19, Boulder, CO Feb. 17-26, Brussels, Belgium Feb. 18-26, Antwerp, Belgium Cartoonist/producer 19 20 21 22 23 Czech animator/illustrator 24 25 Paul Terry is born in 1887. Jiří Trnka is born in Prague in 1912. Big Muddy Film Festival Feb. 22-26, Carbondale, IL Fantasporto-Oporto Int’l Film Festival Washington’s Birthday Feb. 24 - Mar. 3, Porto, Portugal Hanna-Barbera’s Jack 26 Picador Porky, the first 27 Animator/director Kitarô 28 29 and the Beanstalk premieres short to star Mel Blanc, Kôsaka is born in 1962. MARCH 2012 in 1967. debuts in 1927. S M T W T F S Today is Canadian animator AndinaLink 1 2 3 Feb. 28 - Mar. 1, Cartagena, Colombia 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Danny Antonucci’s birthday. DISCOP Istanbul 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Feb. 28 - Mar. 1, Istanbul, Turkey 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Cinequest Film Festival 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Feb. 28 - Mar. 11, San Jose, CA The Academy Awards DC Independent Film Festival Feb. 26, Hollywood, CA Feb. 29 - Mar. 4, Washington, DC FEBRUARY 2012 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Createasphere Entertaintment Tech 1 2 Daria begins airing on 3 FEBRUARY 2012 APRIL 2012 Expo MTV in 1997. S M T W T F S S M T W T F S Mar. 1 , Los Angeles, CA 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 George Lindsey UNA Film Festival 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Mar. 1-3, Florence, AL Byron Bay Film Festival 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Animac, the Int’l Animated Cinema Mar. 2-11, Byron Bay, Australia 26 27 28 29 29 30 Exhibition Miami Int’l Film Festival Mar. 1-4, Lleida, Spain Mar. 2-11, Miami, FL Athens ANIMFEST New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival Mar. 1-7, Athens, Greece Mar. 2-25, New York, NY Stop motion director/ 4 5 Comics legend Will Eisner 6 Sailor Moon first airs in 7 Rankin/Bass’ Mad Monster 8 9 10 animator Ivor Wood is born is born in 1917. Japan in 1992 Party premieres in 1967. in 1932. Toronto AnimeCon Mar. 10-11, Toronto, Canada Media Summit NY San Francisco Int’l Asian American Mar. 7-8, New York, NY Film Festival Independent Games Festival Cartoon Movie Mar. 10-20, San Francisco, CA Mar. 5-9, San Francisco, CA Mar. 7-9, Lyon, France South by Southwest (SXSW) Malmö Int’l Children and Young Game Developers Conference Broadcast, Cable & Satellite - CeBIT Media Summit New York Interactive People’s Film Festival Mar. 5-9, San Francisco, CA Mar. 6-10, Hannover, Germany Mar. 7-8, New York, NY Mar. 9-13, Austin, TX Mar. 13-17, Malmö, Sweden Disney’s The Many 11 Mickey’s Revue 12 13 FICCI Frames 14 Ice Age hits theaters in 15 Voice actor Dick Beals 16 17 Adventures of Winnie the premieres; Goofy is born Mar. 14-16 , Mumbai, India 2002. is born in 1927. Pooh debuts in 1977. in 1932. Minimalen Short Film Festival Simpsons veteran David Mar. 14-18, Trondheim, Norway Cortoons, Int’l Short Animated Film Silverman is born in 1957. Festival Mar. 14-18, Rome, Italy Regard sur le Court Métrage au Saguenay Mar. 14-18, Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, British Animation Awards (BAAs) WonderCon France Mar. 15, London, U.K. Mar. 16-18, Anaheim, CA St. Patrick’s Day Picha’s X-rated Le Big Chris Wedge is born in TMNT hits theaters in The first Best Animated 18 19 20 China Content Broadcasting Network 21 22 23 24 Bang premieres in 1957. Expo (CCBN) 2007. Feature award is presented to Europe in 1987. Mar. 21-23, Beijing, China Shrek at the 2002 Oscars. New Directors/New Films Mar. 21 - Apr. 1, New York, NY Bologna Children’s Book Fair Hong Kong Int’l Film Festival Artexpo New York Mar. 19-22, Bologna, Italy Mar.