Animation Nation is an annual festival held in Singapore featuring animation feature films, animation short, seminars, and workshops. It was founded in 2004 and is organised by the Singapore Film Society, a non-profit organisation based in Singapore. The main aim of the festival is to showcase recent works from around the world, and there is also a local segment called the Singapore Showcase which portrays animation works by Singaporeans. This is to promote local talent and bring awareness to the public. Currently, Animation Nation is the largest known animation festival in the country.
Animation Development Workshop - Ervin Ann
Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Realities of Production Animation for Games and Movies - Jazno Francoeur and Michael Cottam
Working on Square Enix <Front Mission Evolved> - Skan Srisuwan
Secret of Kells (2009) by Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey
Mary and Max (2009) by Adam Elliot
Waltz with Bashir (2008) by Ari Folman
Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai (2009) by Nishikubo Mizuho / 西久保 瑞穂
Barefoot Gen / はだしのゲン (1983) by Masaki Mori / 真崎 守
Barefoot Gen 2 / はだしのゲン2 (1986) by Hirata Toshio / 平田 敏夫
From Inside (2008) by John Bergin
A Town Called Panic (Panique au village) (2009) by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar
Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Super Adventure / 喜洋洋与灰太狼之牛气冲天 (2009)
Genius Party Beyond (2008)
Usavich (2006-9) by Tomioka Satoshi / 富岡 聡
The 5th Animation Nation festival was held from 24 October to 2 November 2008 at Alliance Française de Singapour and the National Museum of Singapore's Gallery Theatre. Other venues would be the upcoming Fusionopolis and the library@esplanade.
Freedom Project Seminar - Director Shuhei Morita and Producer Hideo Matsushita
Koji Yamamura Seminar: Adapting Kafka - Yamamura Koji / 山村 浩二
Scriptwriting Workshop: READY? SET...ACTION!! - Leonard Mah
The Piano Forest (2007) by Kojima Masayuki / 小島 正幸
Sita Sings The Blues (2008) by Nina Paley
Idiots and Angels (2008) with Hot Dog (2008) by Bill Plympton
Genius Party (2008)
Fear(s) of the Dark (2007) by Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire
Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters (2006) by Oshii Mamoru / 押井守
Nocturna (2007) by Víctor Maldonado and Adrià García
One night in one city (2007) by Jan Balej
Freedom Project 1 - 7 (2007)
Dead Space: Downfall (2008) by Chuck Patton
Lecture on Character/ Design - Nancy Beiman
Challenges of the Elephant: The Making of Khan Kluay - Kompin Kemgumnird
First Flight: Insights into the filmmaking process - Cameron Hood and Kyle Jefferson
Jedi Master Program - Lucasfilms
Character and Storyboard Design - Nancy Beiman
COMICS: From Page to Panels - Sonny Liew
Tekkon Kinkreet / 鉄コン筋クリート (2006) by Michael Arias
Khan Kluay (2006) by Kompin Kemgumnird
Blood Tea and Red String (2006) by Christiane Cegavske
Tokyo Loop (2007)
5cm per second by Shinkai Makoto / 新海 誠
Komaneko - The Curious Cat (2006) by Gōda Tsuneo / 合田 経郎
I am a Bear (2006) by Gōda Tsuneo / 合田 経郎
Gisaku (2006) by Baltasar Pedrosa
Freedom Project (2006)
Moebius Redux (2007) by Hasko Baumann
The Pixar Story (2007) by Leslie Iwerks
Director in attendance: Bill Plympton
Bill Plympton Retrospective
Feature film The Tune (1992)
Short films including Your Face (1987) / Guard Dog (2004)
Bill Plympton's Animation Master class
Feature films
Renaissance (2006) by Christian Volckman
Paprika / パプリカ (2006) by Kon Satoshi / 今 敏
Nagasaki 1945 - The Angelus Bells / 長崎 1945 アンゼラスの鐘 (2005) by Arihara Seiji / 有原 誠治
Selected Short films
Animation Runner Kuromi / アニメ制作進行くろみちゃん (2001) by Daichi Akitarō / 大地 丙太郎
Animation Runner Kuromi 2 (2004) by Daichi Akitarō / 大地 丙太郎
Moongirl (2005) by Henry Selick
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation (2005) by John Canemaker
Yonna in the Solitary Fortress (2006) by Takeuchi Kengo / 竹内 謙吾
Negadon: The Monster from Mars / 惑星大怪獣ネガドン (2005) by Awazu Jun / 粟津 順
Best of Ottawa 2006
studio aka showcase
Kakurenbo: Behind the Mask seminar
Jonathan Nix seminar
Mind Game: Yuasa Masaaki seminar
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) by Nick Park and Steve Box
Wallace and Gromit short films: A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993), A Close Shave (1995)
Mind Game (2004) by Yuasa Masaaki / 湯浅 政明
McDull, Prince de la Bun / 麥兜菠蘿油王子 (2004) by Toe Yuen
The Place Promised in Our Early Days / 雲のむこう、約束の場所 (2004) by Shinkai Makoto / 新海 誠
Jonathan Nix Animation Showcase
Ninja Tunes Retrospective
In the Realms of the Unreal (2004 documentary) by Jessica Yu
The District (2004) by Áron Gauder
Kakurenbo / カクレンボ (2004) by Morita Shuuhei / 森田 修平
Aeon Flux shorts
Feature films
Hair High (2004) by Bill Plympton
A Winter's Tale / 冬の日 (2003) by Kawamoto Kihachirō / 川本 喜八郎 et al.
My Life as McDull / 麥兜故事 (2001) by Toe Yuen
Belleville Rendez-vous (2003) by Sylvain Chomet
Matsumoto Leiji / 松本 零士 and Daft Punk's Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003)
Invasion: Anime (2002 documentary) by Angela Alexander
Selected Short films
She and Her Cat: Their Standing Points / 彼女と彼女の猫 (1999) by Shinkai Makoto / 新海 誠
Voices of a Distant Star / ほしのこえ (2002) by Shinkai Makoto / 新海 誠
Doggy Poo / 강아지 똥 (2003) by Kwon Oh-sung
Harvie Krumpet (2003) by Adam Elliot
Father and Daughter (2000) by Michaël Dudok de Wit
The Monk and the Fish (1994) by Michaël Dudok de Wit
Tom Sweep (1992) by Michaël Dudok de Wit
