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The Elephant's Song from Lynn Tomlinson on Vimeo.

This is the story of Old Bet, the first circus elephant in America, set to a tune sung by her friend, an old farm dog. Their story is portrayed in colorful, handcrafted animation, created frame by frame with clay-on-glass and oil pastel animation.

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Animated and Directed by Lynn Tomlinson Written by Lynn Tomlinson and Sam Saper Music and lyrics by Sam Saper Vocals by Deletta Gillespie and Brooks Long Instrumentals and arrangement by Trucker Talk: Abby Becker, Greg Bowen, Jessica Keyes, Rich Kolm Sound Effects by Elsa Lankford Sound recorded and engineered by Shea Springer, Sweetfoot Studio Additional animation by Lucy Saper and M.C. Tomlinson

AWARDS: Audience Choice, Best Short Animation, Providence Children's Film Festival, 2020 Climate, Environment, Biodiversity Prize, Festival Le Temps Presse, Paris, 2020 Best Music, TOFUZI, Batumi, Georgia, 2019 Best Narrative Short, Programmers Award, 32nd annual Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA, 2019 Best Animated Short, Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, AL, 2019 ASIFA East, Independent Films, 1st Prize, NY, 2019 ASIFA East, Excellence in Music, NY, 2019 ASIFA East, Women in Animation Award, NY, 2019 Global Insights Stellar Award (Top Award), Black Maria Film Festival, 2019 Best Animation, NatureTrack Film Festival, CA, 2019 Best Short Film, Environmental Film Festival at Yale, New Haven, CT, 2019 Best Animation, Nevada Women’s Film Festival, Las Vegas, NV 2019 Best Animated Short, SENE Fest, Providence, RI, 2019 Best Sound Design, Chesapeake Film Festival, Easton, MD, 2019 Best Environmental Short Film, Chesapeake Film Festival, Easton, MD, 2019 Best Animation, Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL, 2019 First Prize, Made in Baltimore Short Film Festival, Baltimore, MD, 2018 Best Experimental, 2nd Place, Los Angeles Animation Festival, CA, 2018 Best of Festival, Peekskill Film Festival, Peekskill, NY, 2018 Best Animation, Peekskill Film Festival, Peekskills, NY, 2018 Award of Merit for Animation, University Film & Video Association, Las Cruces, NM, 2018

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS: Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore, MD, World Premiere, 2018 Ajyal Film Festival, Doha, Qatar, 2018 Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Japan Animation for Peace Program, 2018 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival, OH, 2019 Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH, 2019 Canton Film Festival, Canton, OH, 2019 Cinekid, Amsterdam, 2019 High Falls Women's Film Festival, NY 2019 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, DC, 2019 Athens Animfest, Greece, 2019 ASIFA South Animation Conference and Festival 2019 San Francisco Independent Film Festival, CA, 2019 Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Shastaland, CA, 2019 Cinema Sousa, Xiamen Animation Festival, China, 2018 Vaasa Wildlife Festival, Finland, Finalist, 2018 Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK, 2018 San Jose International Short Film Festival, San Jose, CA 2018 China International Green Film Week, 2018 Woods Hole Film Festival, Woods Hole, MA, 2018 Edmonton International Film Festival, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2018

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The Elephant's Song from Lynn Tomlinson on Vimeo.

This is the story of Old Bet, the first circus elephant in America, set to a tune sung by her friend, an old farm dog. Their story is portrayed in colorful, handcrafted animation, created frame by frame with clay-on-glass and oil pastel animation.

→ instagram.com/clayonglass

Animated and Directed by Lynn Tomlinson Written by Lynn Tomlinson and Sam Saper Music and lyrics by Sam Saper Vocals by Deletta Gillespie and Brooks Long Instrumentals and arrangement by Trucker Talk: Abby Becker, Greg Bowen, Jessica Keyes, Rich Kolm Sound Effects by Elsa Lankford Sound recorded and engineered by Shea Springer, Sweetfoot Studio Additional animation by Lucy Saper and M.C. Tomlinson

AWARDS: Audience Choice, Best Short Animation, Providence Children's Film Festival, 2020 Climate, Environment, Biodiversity Prize, Festival Le Temps Presse, Paris, 2020 Best Music, TOFUZI, Batumi, Georgia, 2019 Best Narrative Short, Programmers Award, 32nd annual Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA, 2019 Best Animated Short, Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, AL, 2019 ASIFA East, Independent Films, 1st Prize, NY, 2019 ASIFA East, Excellence in Music, NY, 2019 ASIFA East, Women in Animation Award, NY, 2019 Global Insights Stellar Award (Top Award), Black Maria Film Festival, 2019 Best Animation, NatureTrack Film Festival, CA, 2019 Best Short Film, Environmental Film Festival at Yale, New Haven, CT, 2019 Best Animation, Nevada Women’s Film Festival, Las Vegas, NV 2019 Best Animated Short, SENE Fest, Providence, RI, 2019 Best Sound Design, Chesapeake Film Festival, Easton, MD, 2019 Best Environmental Short Film, Chesapeake Film Festival, Easton, MD, 2019 Best Animation, Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL, 2019 First Prize, Made in Baltimore Short Film Festival, Baltimore, MD, 2018 Best Experimental, 2nd Place, Los Angeles Animation Festival, CA, 2018 Best of Festival, Peekskill Film Festival, Peekskill, NY, 2018 Best Animation, Peekskill Film Festival, Peekskills, NY, 2018 Award of Merit for Animation, University Film & Video Association, Las Cruces, NM, 2018

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS: Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore, MD, World Premiere, 2018 Ajyal Film Festival, Doha, Qatar, 2018 Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Japan Animation for Peace Program, 2018 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival, OH, 2019 Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH, 2019 Canton Film Festival, Canton, OH, 2019 Cinekid, Amsterdam, 2019 High Falls Women's Film Festival, NY 2019 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, DC, 2019 Athens Animfest, Greece, 2019 ASIFA South Animation Conference and Festival 2019 San Francisco Independent Film Festival, CA, 2019 Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Shastaland, CA, 2019 Cinema Sousa, Xiamen Animation Festival, China, 2018 Vaasa Wildlife Festival, Finland, Finalist, 2018 Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK, 2018 San Jose International Short Film Festival, San Jose, CA 2018 China International Green Film Week, 2018 Woods Hole Film Festival, Woods Hole, MA, 2018 Edmonton International Film Festival, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2018

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The short film "Cracking Chirality" produced by the absurdly talented Day's Edge Productions and The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. was published online today and will on Curiosity Stream shortly. Dusty Studio did the animation with myself and Miles Mason doing the stop motion, Phillip Evans doing much of the illustration and Yalan Wen doing the motion graphics. Thanks Neil, Nathan, Page, Kori and Alex for begin so easy to work with. :)

"Cracking Chirality" from Chemistry Shorts™ explores how the essential molecules of life, like DNA, RNA, and proteins, acquired their homochiral structures and how magnetic rocks at the bottom of a prebiotic lake, may have set the stage for life as we know it.

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Confluence: Safe Crossing

SVA MFA Computer Arts 2023 Fall Exhibition

Opening reception: Thursday, November 9, 6-8pm

School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Confluence: Safe Crossing,” an exhibition of animations, films, prints and sculptures by MFA Computer Arts students, alumni, and faculty. Curated by India Lombardi-Bello, department assistant to the chair and outreach coordinator, and department administrative assistant Jack Meisterich, the exhibition will be on view from Wednesday, November 8, through Monday, November 27, 2023 at the SVA Flatiron Gallery, 133/141 West 21st Street, New York City.

At the opening reception on Thursday, November 9, alumnus Dustin Grella (2009) will park his Animation Bus outside the SVA Flatiron Gallery for visitors to gather, draw and animate. A timelapse video will be created and shared at a later date.

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Announcing Dustin Grella as the 2024 VAF Keynote Speaker!

Dustin Grella is an animator and documentary filmmaker whose work attempts to glean glimpses of colorful insight into the seemingly mundane.

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Animation Hotline, 2022 (Ohio Edition) will be screening in the Competition-4 programme at the ANIMAGE festival in Recife, Brazil on October 3-8, 2023.

Poster Design by Natalia Gregorini - IG @nataliagregorini

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Animation Bus #03 from Dusty Studio on Vimeo.

Current progress on the animation bus that has chalkboard side so that people can draw on them.

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Read the full New York Times article at:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/arts/music/dead-and-company-final-tour.html

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Animation Hotline, 2022 (Ohio Edition) earned a thumbs up by the ASIFA community! Thank you for your love and support over the years. :)

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Water bottles with hand drawn labels that started in 2006. https://dustystudio.com/project/new-york-city-tap-water-2012/

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This is just a mockup, so it isn't what the bus looks like right now. Although it is an actual photograph of the bus. I'm planning on putting some colorful painting on the front and the back and then the middle will be chalkboard paint, so that when we are traveling we can have other people draw on the bus and we can draw on it ourselves and make animations. For some reason I keep talking about myself in plural.

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Happy 6th birthday to Buddy, my life's co-pilot. https://www.instagram.com/p/CnmduKfrwvqKX4z8wZIFN319ujPymmiEK5xgHg0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I bought a school bus this summer, a little midsized school bus, and I’m going to turn it into a little mobile animation station with a studio in the back and a bed up front. (at Kenton County, Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjI5YK3LQm1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Drawing on these football cards. (at Los Vegas Nevada) https://www.instagram.com/dustingrella/p/CXmhA3Ylnd6/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Remote studio setup in Medina, OH https://www.instagram.com/p/B--JamoDL8t/?igshid=6za6w8eecsiq

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This is a scene that we did for the Lars Von Trier film “The House That Jack Built”.  This is Jack’s (Matt Dillon) explanation of the rising passion he holds for his art.  

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Hey everybody!! Millennium Film Journal wrote an amazing cover story on the studio. They came to visit and interviewed Dustin, and took some beautiful photographs of the space, the work, and the people who make it all happen. We’re so happy to be in this great journal and to have this article to show off. Visit the link above to snatch your own copy today!