AMID AMIDI is the award-winning author of numerous books about contemporary and classic animated filmmaking, including the essential “Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation” and “The Art of Pixar: The Complete Color Scripts and Select Art from 25 Years of Animation.” He is the editor-in-chief of the influential industry website Cartoon Brew. In addition to writing extensively about the animation art form, he lectures at studios, schools and festivals internationally. You can follow him on Twitter or contact him.
2013 Schedule
May 2013 - Anifilm - Trebon, Czech Republic
June 2013 - Center for Urban Pedagogy's Public Access Design grants — New York, NYNovember 2013 - Klik! Animation Festival - Amsterdam
News
• My writing about Stan VanDerBeek is cited in Tom Sito's new book Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation (MIT Press, 2013).
• My research is cited in two separate essays that appear in the recently published anthology Funny Pictures: Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood (University of California Press, 2011) edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. The essays are written by Henry Jenkins and Linda Simensky.
