Here are some of the following film festivals I hope my film to be played at:

 Ottawa International Animation Festival
1.)https://animationfestival.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=166&Itemid=808

Deadline for entry forms: Friday, May 18th, 2012

Deadline for preview DVDs: Friday, June 1st, 2012

2.) Buffalo Niagra Film Festival
http://thebnff.com/submit/
The 6th Annual BUFFALO NIAGARA FILM FESTIVAL runs from April 12 – 22, 2012.

3.)360/365 (aka Rochester high Falls film festival)
http://film3
Since our 2012 festival has been postponed to 2013, we are not currently seeking submissions. Check back soon for updates.
60365.com/festival/submit-a-film

4.) Chicago International Children's Film Festival
http://www.cicff.org/content/applications-deadlines/3
Short film or video (under 60 minutes): $40.00 USD

5.) Rochester International Film Festival: movies on a shoestring
http://www.rochesterfilmfest.org/submissions/submissions.html

• Entries must be postmarked no later than January 15, 2012.
i figure i can wait till next year to submit my film to this one.

6.) The Citrus Cel Film Festival
http://citruscel.com/
 entry deadline is July 31, 2012

7.) Drunken Zombie Film Festival
http://drunkenzombiefilmfestival.com/?page_id=11
Submissions for the film festival for November 2012 are now open. The deadline is August 30th.

8.) Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation
http://spikeandmike.com/sitepages/festival.php
Currently Accepting Film Submissions
Sick & Twisted Festival &
New Generation Animation Festival
Email: Spike@SpikeandMike.com

9.) Fargo Film Festival

http://www.fargofilmfestival.org/submissions

Early-Bird Submission Deadline: August 1, 2012 postmark ($15)

10.) Montreal Animated Films Summit

http://www.cinematheque.qc.ca/en/sommets

 The next Sommets du cinéma d’animation de Montréal will be held from 28th of November to 2nd of December.

So in fearing that i would never complete my dream of hand-drawing every frame in my first movie, my teacher showed me to animate in photoshop. at first i wasn't sure and almost skeptic to think the line quality would be noticeable when finall completeed compared to my hand drawn scenes. when doing a simple test of the villain in my movie, the monster, i realized that you could use the timeline to test and examine the timing between my extreme poses and determine the inbetween count for them. this sure as hell beated drawing at the table, then having to take each individual frame and clicking the camera for it to show on flipbook and examine it like that. plus with it being digitally done, i could skip the scanning process and just touch up the characters and then paint bucket them with minutes. Tyhen i would take thoses pings from photshop and then put them into after effects and put them accordingly to the timing on the timeline and watch it come to life in the end. This will definitely help me out in the ned. Since my discovery i've completed three shots within a week's time instead of possibly one and a half shots.

Here's my first pencil test of the Dad character. In this scene, the two have just heard a strange noise and when there's no answer to the fathers hello call, he plans to check things out and wants the son to stay at the fishing site. It's on "ones" which means that there are individual drawings on every frame of film. In total I drew 53 drawings in this sequence. I plan on working out the timing alittle more carefully in the week or so and plus add in the dialouge mouth parts for his line. I might even re-posistion himself at the end and have the mouth hang at the corner of his mouth, which would make the lip-sync more easier and less time-consuming.