New animation from Flaming Medusa: Wookie Slows it Down

Check out this awesome animation by local animator Tom Beuerlein at Flaming Medusa Studios!

Anomalisa Advance Screening- free tickets!

Good news! Flaming Medusa Animation hooked us up with a cool deal that means you can get free advance screening tickets to the Academy Award nominated stop-motion feature "Anomalisa".

Where: The Esquire Theatre, Cincinnati OH

When: Tuesday Jan 19th, 7:30pm

Tip: Arrive 30-40 mins early, seats are not guaranteed and are first come first serve

Get free tickets

Synopsis:

Michael Stone, husband, father and respected author of "How May I Help You Help Them?" is a man crippled by the mundanity of his life. On a business trip to Cincinnati, where he's scheduled to speak at a convention of customer service professionals, he checks into the Fregoli Hotel. There, he is amazed to discover a possible escape from his desperation in the form of an unassuming Akron baked goods sales rep, Lisa, who may or may not be the love of his life. A beautifully tender and absurdly humorous dreamscape, from the brilliant minds of Charlie Kaufman (SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK) and Duke Johnson ("Community" episode, Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas), this stop-motion animation wonder features the vocal cast of Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan and David Thewlis and a stirring strings-based score by Carter Burwell. The darkly comedic and surreal stop-motion journey of a man's long night of the soul, ANOMALISA confirms Charlie Kaufman's place amongst the most important of American filmmakers, and announces Duke Johnson as a major creative force. 

Hope to see you there!

Great New Animation from Flaming Medusa Studios about Coney Island

Darcy Vorhees and her team at Flaming Medusa Studios have continued their Queen City Chronicles series with this one about Coney Island.

Ruff Ruffman in Cincinnati

We are very happy to announce that a project we have been working on with WGBH Boston, for PBS KIDS, has launched!

Ruff Ruffman stars in these YouTube-friendly, animated comedy shorts called Ruff Ruffman: Humble Media Genius, in which he shares information about media and technology. This brand new resource from PBS also provides families and teachers with important information for our ever-changing digital lives.

The series has been spearheaded by Senior Executive Producer, Bill Shribman and EMMY-winning writer Gentry Menzel, has been funded as a pilot project by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and was produced by Cincinnati's Flaming Medusa Studios Inc.

Watch them Here! And share some pretty art here :)

Flaming Medusa Studios Interviewed on WVXU Today at 1PM

Darcy Vorhees Van Horn will be discussing  their animation series Queen City Chronicles on WVXU (91.7 FM) today at 1PM EST, the "Cincinnati Edition" show.

http://wvxu.org/post/telling-tales-local-icons-animation

Article about Flaming Medusa Studios in Soapbox

Darcy Vorhees Van Horn and Tom Beuerlein

 Great write up on Flaming Medusa Studios about their animated series on Cincinnati iconic companies:

25 most iconic Cincy companies captured in video

www.soapboxmedia.com/features/040814-queen-city-chronicles.aspx

FMS also just did a really cool animation for WCPO celebrating the Reds Opening Day:

http://www.wcpo.com/news/cintagious/video-knock-it-out-of-the-park-reds-hope-springs-eternal-for-opening-day-and-beyond

CAN Meeting: How to not get screwed as an artist

Make money, not starvation!

We are having a Cincinnati Animation Network meeting about basic business stuff like how to start a business, why to start a business, what it means to start a business, basic business terms, payment and invoicing, and how to apply business principles to your art. And also what some basic business principles are, because no one bothers to teach us these things in school:)

Please join us!  It really doesn't matter what kind of art you make, it's basically the same.

It will be on March 28th, at 7pm.

at Flaming Medusa Studios
3047 Madison Rd Suite 206A
Cincinnati, Oh 45209

email Darcy at cincycan@gmail.com to rsvp! I need to be sure I have enough chairs set up....

Flaming Medusa Studios and Ted-Ed

I haven't totaled it up yet but this represents a lot of work....

Hi everybody! I thought it would be nice to do a little post collecting the educational animated videos that Flaming Medusa Studios did for Ted-Ed last year. We made films on a variety of subjects from Sacajawea to Computer Architecture to Voting to Time Zones, and more. If you have some time to kill just click on through!

'Tis the season for giving... and also for saying thank you for a great year.

The University of Cincinnati Athletic Department came to us at Flaming Medusa Studios because they needed an animated holiday card that would both thank their donors and also give them the opportunity to include UC Athletics in their holiday giving. So we made this! We got to animate their old mascots too- this was a pretty cool project. I also got to do some actionscripting!

You can watch the card here: http://www.animatedcincinnati.com/UC/happyholidays.html

Illustrator News: Darcy Vorhees profiled on Soapbox Media

Darcy Vorhees (Flaming Medusa Studios) was just interviewed for Soapbox Media.

http://www.soapboxmedia.com/founders/060413DarcyVorhees.aspx

She also gave our blog a shout out!

Caricature kind of

Hi guys- I was just messing around last night, wanting to try something that's new for me and this is what happened. It appropriate because she likes making these weird faces in photos so- hey!

Twelve-Way with Cheese Debuts!

The first episode of Tess+Tedman is now available in the Twelve-Way with Cheese comic anthology!

Twelve-Way features the work of Cincinnati artists: Brennan Bradford, Bruce Chrislip, Daryll Collins, Jerry Dowling, Tim Fuller, Brian Hagen, David Hartz, Woodrow J. Hinton III, Bob Kahnman, Darcy Vorhees, Christina Wald and Viki Woodworth, with a foreword by Justin Green.

108 pages, full color, paperback. Go to http://www.comixpress.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=0&products_id=1673 to order your copy today.

And check in often at http://www.tessandtedman.com or the Tess+Tedman Facebook page for more episodes!

Smartists Inc. blog

Hey guys I started a new blog for business issues specifically relating to artists- I also just put a poll up it would be interesting to see the results so please vote on it!

Here's a link to the blog please stop by and follow if it is this is a topic you're interested in or have ideas about:

http://smartistsinc.blogspot.com/