Sure! If you’ve got the skills and the time, a Sita Sings the Blues video game is yours for the making. Or a sequel or whatever else you can dream up. That’s because Nina Paley, the writer and director of the award-winning, feature-length animated film, has pushed the FLA source files into the in your hands with a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License. This move follows suit with Paley’s distribution method in which she offered a free download earlier this year, hoping it will promote the sales of the limited edition DVD and accompanying merch.
Nina Paley’s Flash-animated feature film Sita Sings the Blues is being prepared for its TV debut. The film, which took the Best Feature award at the 32nd Annecy Animated Film Festival, will air on WNET Channel 13 on March 7th, 2009 at 10:45 pm (ET). The 82-minute feature is also being readied for free online distribution. In related news, Paley was featured yesterday in a Matthew Ross article in Variety on award nominees.
Three cheers for Nina Paley and her Flash-animated feature film Sita Sings the Blues, which took home the top feature prize at the 32nd Annecy International Animated Film Festival. As you may have spotted at CartoonBrew.com, Paley received an Annecy Cristal trophy after the jury, which included Matt Groening, voted in her favor. Bravo, Nina!
The gargantuan effort and time Nina Paley spent to get her independent film, Sita Sings the Blues, to the silver screen appears to have been well spent. This 82-minute, Flash-animated feature has already wowed audiences at the Berlin International Film Festival, but her recent screening at the Tribeca Film Festival (where she caught “Tribeculosis” – ha!) has revealed a torrent of glowing reviews. This morning, Variety’s Ronnie Scheib said that her film “constitutes an irrefutable argument for classic 2-D animation as a viable, vibrant low-budget arthouse medium for adults.” How ’bout them apples?
Along the way, Paley paused to join Bill Plympton, Matt Singer and Alison Willmore in an animation discussion with IFC:
If you haven’t seen it already, here’s the trailer for Sita Sings the Blues, dubbed “The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told”:
I spent this past week in Portland, Oregon for the 1st Annual Platform International Animation Festival. Portland itself was a thrill, and the festival surely lived up to expectations.
I joined Dan Sarto’s (AWN.com) Attack of the Blog: Meet the Bloggers panel on Wednesday (see Charles Zembillas’ photos), and then moderated The Flashers Convention, a panel covering the use of Flash in the world of character animation. Joining me on the panel were Brendan Burch (Six Point Harness), Nina Paley, Delna Bhesania (Bardel), Chris Staples (Cartoon Network) and David SanAngelo (Soup2Nuts).
We covered the benefits of Flash to independent animators, cost savings in the TV world and whether or not ‘Flash’ is still a dirty word in the animation industry. Harmony, the digital 2D software from Toonboom, ended as a topic multiple times, and seems to be making headway versus Flash.
Thanks to all who attended, and to Cartoon Network, Irene Kotlarz and Anne Denman for inviting me. I’ll surely be back next year.
Sure! If you’ve got the skills and the time, a Sita Sings the Blues video game is yours for the making. Or a sequel or whatever else you can dream up. That’s because Nina Paley, the writer and director of the award-winning, feature-length animated film, has pushed the FLA source files into the in your hands with a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License. This move follows suit with Paley’s distribution method in which she offered a free download earlier this year, hoping it will promote the sales of the limited edition DVD and accompanying merch.
Three cheers for Nina Paley and her Flash-animated feature film 
I spent this past week in Portland, Oregon for the 1st Annual 
