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Nick Orsi, Artist on Zootopia, visits CIA

03/03/16  |  Posted by Mario Serrano  |  Posted in Animation

By Clint O’ConnorNick Orsi has spent a lot of time with foxes and rabbits. As a character designer in the visual development department at Disney Animation Studios, Orsi studied animals to help create the main...

Cinema Talk

03/02/16  |  Posted by  |  Posted in Cinematheque

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Are Oscar voters racist? Some have implied as much. This is because, for the second year running, there are no people of color among the 20 actors nominated in the Academy Awards’ four acting categories...

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01/11/16  |  Posted by  |  Posted in Cinematheque

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In May 2007 I traveled to the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago to see a movie that I thought I would never be able to show at the Cinematheque: Jacques Rivette’s 1971 French New...

Disney Animation Supervisor, Lino Di Salvo visits CIA

11/20/15  |  Posted by Mario Serrano  |  Posted in Animation

Spend a lunch hour learning about the latest in art and design during these Friday lectures. These lectures feature artists, designers and authors from around the world, including CIA faculty and visiting artists. Free and...

CIA Community Projects: Dog Eat Dog, Deck of Dice, Cleveland Museum of Natural History

11/18/15  |  Posted by Mario Serrano  |  Posted in Animation

Five CIA Animation students will see their ideas play out in a major motion picture when director Paul Schrader’s latest film, Dog Eat Dog, is released in 2016. The students spent the first half of...