The UPenn art department sometimes distributes postcards advertising certain classes/concentrations. This year's animation postcard features some familiar faces!
How the Coyote got his Cunning was featured at this year's Utah Arts Festival in Salt Lake City, and a visitor outlined some of the entries of the show on his blog. Nine different showings, based on the Nine Muses, were the basis of the festival, and Coyote was put in the Comedy section, which was entirely kid friendly — the selections of which were determined by the curator's own kids!
"COMEDY
This provided the ideal opportunity for Horman to give the Art Yard its first kids’ version of Fear No Film. A half-hour screening of seven clever, cute, and whimsical pieces will screen every hour while the venue is open. All the films are suitable for children ages three and older. Horman screened the selections with his children, who gave their rousing endorsements.
All of the selections are as charming as one can imagine ... [including] ‘How the Coyote Got His Cunning,’ a definitive example of soundly executed old-school animation from Pennsylvania."
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YoungCuts is a Canadian film festival for filmmakers and animators 25 and under, held in Montreal in late September. How the Coyote got his Cunning was chosen as one of their top 100 films, and they did a blog feature on it back in July.
Being mentioned in the same sentence as Co Hoedeman was very VERY awesome.
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34th Street did a second interview with me after I won first prize at the College Houses Film Festival.
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My university's weekly arts and culture magazine does artist features from time to time. They asked me for an interview back in January, after I had gone to my very first festival.
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This was my first full-length animation. And it's still my most successful one. My baby :)
Coyote was done for my final project in my Mixed Media Animation class, Spring 2010. The first animation course I had ever taken. I first submitted it to the OIAF, where it was rejected, but I couldn't have predicted how far it would've gone beyond that. It's been in six festivals around the US and Canada, and will probably be shown at a festival in San Francisco next spring. I still need to send in a DVD!
I had visited Canada for the first time the summer before. It was a SUPER brief trip (only 2 days and extremely last-minute) but it left a huge impression on me. So when we were given an 'open' project for our final... I was stumped. Then I suddenly thought of the Pacific Northwest art style. And that was that.
This is all digital; I did a test in cut paper, an actual stop motion, but with only 2 weeks to animate it, it would've taken far too long. So this is 100% Photoshop.
