Secret Handshake is back! Bigger and better than before!

We've made a couple of changes to the format. As well as the monthly topical animation competition, we'll also be featuring rare and vintage animations, recently finished films made by you (films from outside Secret Handshake - animated please!) and it will all be hosted by Melbourne comic, James Hazelden.
There will also be the Wheel of Topics! Beer! Good times! Dodgy Prizes! Fame and Glory!

The topic for April is DINOSAURS. It all kicks off again April 28th at Loop. Mark it in your diaries and get animating!

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Tags: secret handshake, animation

Voting is now open for the Get Animated competition. Check out the creative talent in Australia by enjoying over 80 animations!
Go to http://www.iinet.net.au/getanimated/ to vote - voting closes early January. (you go into the running to win a Playstation just by voting!)

Special mention goes to ANIMATION CLUB!!! members and friends who have films in the running. "Eyes Wide Open' and 'Buzzword Compliant' - two ANIMATION CLUB!!! films are in the running as well as films by VJ Zepp (James Paul), Sarah Phillips and Kathryn Parker.

Get voting!

Tags: iinet, competition, animation

David Blumenstein (Herman, the Legal Labrador) has been working on a animated cop show called The Precinct and has put a 2min pilot episode up on his website. Also check out the Production blog , or download the episode in more mobile formats than you thought you needed.
http://theprecinctrocks.com/

Tags: the precinct, flash

Mary and Max is a claymation feature film from the creators of the Academy Award-winning short animation Harvie Krumpet.
It is a simple tale of pen-friendship between two very different people; Mary Dinkle, a chubby lonely 8-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horovitz, a 44-year-old, severely obese, Jewish man with Asperger's Syndrome living in the chaos of New York.

Although the film is not out until 2009, an official website has been created, which although still under construction, is well worth checking out. The art and animation is beautiful and there are some great little behind the scenes videos that have been put up as well.

http://www.maryandmax.com

Tags: adam elliot, mary and max, claymation