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Animaatiokone was invited to the Red Stick International Animation Festival to Baton Rouge. Louisiana was great
and so was the festival. Not to mention all the people we met, even the english ;-)
Animaatiokone was placed in the Old State Capitol, which is absolutely one of the finest places
the machine has ever been. We'll be back next year. Hell yea!
> Photos from the festival.
> Read the article in the Advocate
Animaatiokone turned 2 years today! Happy birthday to you... And Medialab (the place that gave birth to Animaatiokone)
turned 10 years today. Congratulations. Both Animaatiokone and the Kick Ass Kung Fu were at the Mlab 10th anniversary party.
Animaatiokone has been in use in Annantalo for nearly three weeks now. Longest exhibition ever! And the kids love it ;-)
Mikko finally got his MA done and Animaatiokone was nominated for the Masters of Arts exhibition organized by the
University of Arts and Design Helsinki. Animaatiokone was one of the four works to win the Young Designer Award. Congratulations!
> Photos from the exhibition.
> Read the articles
Animaatiokone at Animex! We got the invitation to the festival at a last minute, packed Animaatiokone in a really
short notice and shipped to England. Now it has been
standing at the lobby of the University of Teesside for the whole week while we have been giving animation workshops all around
northern England. Great kids and a great festival. We'll be happy to come back next year.
> Photos from the workshops.
> www.animex.net
The Copenhagen based Innovation Lab invited Animaatiokone to take part of the NEXT -festival. Lots of cool stuff here...
> Photos from NEXT.
> for more...
Animaatiokone was awarded two (or actually three) times this weekend at MindTrek gala in Tampere, Finland. Animaatiokone won
the first prize in the children category and the category for non-commercial works.
Animaatiokone won the third prize in the MindTrek Grand Prix.
The SANKARI-SHOW won the Grand Prix and 20 000€. Congratulations Minna and Petri!
> Photos from the gala.
> www.mindtrek.org
And the "Prix Special de Jury" goes to... ANIMAATIOKONE. Jiiihaa! As a result of the Prix Möbius Nordica prize
Animaatiokone won on January we were sent to Athens for the Prix Möbius International. The trip was just great and
we even did have time to do some sightseeing... great fun! And we did get the trophy!
> Photos from the tour.
> www.prix-mobius.net
While Mikko and Perttu were touring the US with the installation, Ari and Ami were presenting Animaatiokone Studio software
at the Annecy International Animation festival.
Animaatiokone is touring with the PixelACHE festival. The exhibitoion venue in New York is the ultra cool
> Gershwin Hotel. In Montreal PixelACHE is part
of the opening party of the SAT premises.
> Photos from the tour.
Animaatiokone is ready for the three week exhibition in Kunsthalle Lophem, Belgium. It survived the trip
and it's up and running again. Check out the images and articles here.
> Photos from the Kunsthalle.
> www.kunsthallelophem.be
FF mediafestival was a a success, for tons of great and highly artistic (?) animation was created.
Animaatiokone would like to thank everybody invloved.
> Read the article in Rovaniemen ylioppilaslehti (.jpg 65 kb)
> Read the article in Uusi Rovaniemi (.jpg 47 kb)
Animaatiokone-team won Le Prix Special du Jury,
which means that Animaatiokone travels to the Prix Möbius International Athens, Greece in September 2003.
Don't forget to view the award-winning-animation.
> Some photos from Lume Centre. By Miikka Poutiainen.
> Article in Helsingin Sanomat. Read more... (.jpg 206 kb)
> www.uiah.fi -frontpage (.jpg 98 kb)
Animaatiokone is louder than ever. After finishing your animation you can dub it by simply pressing the
DUB-button. It's as easy as it sounds. And fun.
Prix Möbius Nordica jury has chosen Animaatiokone to be presented to
international jury at Media Centre Lume on 25.1.2002. Animaatiokone
will be at your service at the preview exhibition from 17.1. to 25.1. at Lume Gallery.
See tour for more information.
> http://www.prixmobiusnordica.org/
Greetings to everybody from Mikko, Perttu & Ari! Be sure to
check back for more info on Animaatiokone Tour which is
to be continued in 2003 after our winter holiday.
> Read the article. Written by Katja Ojala (.jpg 160 kb)
Sessions visited Animatricks animationfestival on Saturday 2.11. The program will be broadcasted on Tuesday 12.11. at 19.15
> www.sub.tv
> Read the article in Börje Magazine. Written by Teriina Lindblom(.jpg 171 kb)
> Listen to the interview from the archive of Radio Aino.
Watch the cultural program Valopilkku on Thursday 7.11 at 21:35 at YLE, TV1.
> Valopilkku homepage
> Valopilkku broadcast will be here soon...
Animaatiokone on Tour.
> Kettupäivät homepage
Animaatiokone is on Tour.
> Animatricks homepage
The news broadcast at TV-NYTT will be here soon...
> Read the article. Written by Harri Römpötti (.jpg 213 kb)
> Read the article. Written by Niina Mäkeläinen (.jpg 100 kb)
> Läs mera! (.jpg 160 kb)
> Listen to the interview at Radio Aino. By Riku Saariluoma (.mp3, 6.7
mb)
Animaatiokone was introduced to the finnish public in the main news broadcast at YLE TV1 on Monday 28.10. It was referred as the latest
finnish invention in the field of animation. It made also the main topic of the YLE's Cultural News on Monday evening and Tuesday morning.
> Watch the interview (.avi mpg4, 7.3 mb)
> YLE Videoarchive
Animaatiokone started its tour...
> Read the article (.jpg, 41 kb)
> Read the article from www.t-lehti.fi
> Read the article(.jpg 160 kb)
The tour is about to begin...
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