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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Submissions for the 2027 Bloomin' Edition of Sea Slug Animation Festival are now OPEN! DEADLINES: Earlybird– Sep. 1 Regular– Oct. 5 Late– Nov. 2
On an orange watercolor background, surrounded by yellow swirls and orange blotches, reads the text "2027 Sea Slug Animation Festival, Call for Entries. Submission Deadlines: Earlybird- Sep. 1, Regular- Oct. 5, Late- Nov. 2"
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
In 2025, we planted the seeds. In 2026, we watered our tender shoots. Now our wee buds are bloomin’ wild and they WON’T be contained! Join us for the Bloomin' Edition of Sea Slug Animation Festival on Feb. 26-28, 2027! Stay soft. Grow wild!
On a leaf green water color background, there is the logo for Sea Slug Animation festival and the text "Bloomin' Edition, February 26-28, 2027," all surrounded by green and yellow swirls
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Join us for some iconique anime cinema on a HUGE screen!
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SIFF @siffnews.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The SIFF x Sea Slug Animation Festival Ani-Marathon features two weeks of new and classic anime films on the best screen in Seattle. 🌸 Runs 4/17-30 at SIFF Downtown. Explore the lineup: siff.info/animarathon-bs Series curated by SIFFRAFF Tony Ochoa, Trevor Brandt, Rhys Iliakis, and Wyatt Stone.
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Ani-Marathon
A celebration of our favorite anime features! Japanese animation in particular can tell stories that deal with more adult themes, and has a style that showcases greater attention to the scenery than most Western animation, making it feel more immersive and lived in.
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Josh Horowitz @joshuahhh.com · 07/03/2026
unremittingly obsessed with Luca Tóth's "Vegan Mayo" after seeing it last weekend at @seasluganimation.bsky.social. it's a real novelty for me to have something stuck in my head and no way to relive it on demand! watching weird short films at festivals gives a rare taste of media scarcity. love it.
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The Stranger @thestranger.com · 26/02/2026
Sea Slug Animation Festival is drawing a hard line: no AI generated work. The Seattle fest is spotlighting animation made by actual humans, from hand drawn and stop motion to oil on glass and pinscreen, at SIFF Cinema Uptown Feb. 27 through Mar. 3.⁠
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Slugs Not Slop: Seattle’s Sea Slug Animation Festival Says No AI
The Sea Slug Animation Festival is making clear what was true its first year: only art made by passionate craftspeople is allowed. AI hacks, please dispose of your slop in the nearest trash can.
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Thanks for the awesome reporting, Chase and @thestranger.com! We strive to uplift the art of animation, especially in our PNW community 💜🧡
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Rev your engines! It’s the FURIOUS Edition trailer! 😤 We are coming to your screens FAST! We are putting dollars in artists’ pockets with a FURY! We’re back and we are 2 SLUG 2 FURIOUS!!! TICKETS AND PASSES ON SALE vimeo.com/1162644909?s...
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Sea Slug Animation Festival – Furious Edition Trailer
Inspired by the diversity of styles and mediums within animation, our second trailer plays again on the tradition of “reanimated collabs.” Directed and…
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Craving bite-sized works of art to get your animation fix? Come check out our short programs! Short film listings in the comments 🐛 Shorts I: Emotional Support Buddies 🐛 February 28 | 12:00PM 🌭 Shorts II: Big Bizzaro 🌭 February 28 | 4:00PM 🌷 Shorts III: Animation Altar 🌷 March 1 | 12:00PM
Text: Sea Slug Animation Festival, Shorts 1: Emotional Support Buddies. On a blue and purple spray paint background there is a still from the short film "Fear is a Rose." The still features a little black and blue figure staring into a well in the middle of a room with yellow and blue tiled floor.Text: Sea Slug Animation Festival, Shorts 12: Big Bizarro. On a blue and purple spray paint background there is a still from the short film "Vegan Mayo." The still features a a cylindrical, pink worm figure with a halo looking at the audience. She has plump lips and piercing eyes.Text: Sea Slug Animation Festival, Shorts 3: Animation Altar. On a blue and purple spray paint background there is a still from the short film "The Death of the Fish." The still features a woman sitting under an umbrella with five figures in black mourning dresses behind her. There is a little girl sitting a bit to the left. Theyre on the shore of a river with a forest behind them.
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Look forward to looking back with a feature from the vault! 🌞 Retrospective Spotlight 🌞 Dédé (Ancestor) & Son of the White Mare February 28 | 7:00PM | SIFF Cinema Uptown More info on the films in the comments! Tickets and passes on sale February 6.
Text: Sea Slug Animation Festival, Retrospective Spotlight. On an orange spray paint-textured background, there are two layered film stills. The larger on the top is a still from "Son of the White Mare" depicting three psychedelically designed men, one blue, one yellow, and one red. The bottom still is from "Dédé (Ancestor)" depicting, on black, a crowd of costumed and masked characters in the stile of Ivory Coast scultures.Text: "Son of the White Mare" dir. Marcell Jankovics. On an orange pray painted background, there is a film still from "Son of the White Mare." The still shows a blue scene with a blue mountain. A black path leads up to the mountain and a small, bright yellow figure stands on the path.Text: "Dédé (Ancestor)" dir. Yasmine Djédjé-Fisher-Azomé. On an orange pray painted background, there is a film still from "Dédé (Ancestor)." The still shows a metallic copper spiral of faces as if they are embossed in metal.
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
💢 Proud to Present ~ The FURIOUS Edition 💢 🔸 The Seattle premiere of ENDLESS COOKIE with a pre-recorded intro from the filmmakers 🔸 The 4K restoration of SON OF THE WHITE MARE 🔸 A SECRET finale screening 🔸 Three shorts packages blocks featuring 30 animated shorts for adults + filmmaker Q&As
The logo for Sea Slug Animation Festival on top of a purple-washed background of film stills. The text underneath reads "The Furious Edition Program."A programmatic schedule for the film festival. The text reads:
Friday, 2/27
7:00 PM– Opening Night: Rita + Endless Cookie
9:00 PM– Kick Off Party @ Solo Bar & Eatery (21+)

Saturday, 2/28
12:00 PM– Shorts 1: Emotional Support Buddies
1:45 PM– Artist Alley @ SIFF Film Center
4:00 PM– Shorts 2: Big Bizarro
7:00 PM– Retrospective: Dédé (Ancestor) + Son of the White Mare

Sunday, 3/1
12:00 PM– Shorts 3: Animation Altar
2:00 PM– Anim-Mixer @ Queen Anne Beer Hall
4:00 PM– Furious Finale: No Room + ???
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We’re revving up for the Furious Edition… and ready to drop the Opening Night program! 🍪 Opening Night 🍪 Rita & Endless Cookie February 27 | 7:00PM | SIFF Cinema Uptown Info on the films in the comments!
Opening night graphic for Sea Slug Animation festival. On a spray painted orange background there are two film stills stylized to look like wrinkled posters on a wall. One still (from Endless Cookie) is a colorful scene in a kitchen were a strange-looking, colorful man is on the phone with a cup of coffee, a little cookie-headed girl carries a cup, and another man sits across the table with a read beanie and coffee. The second still (from Rita) depicts a black and white scene with an old snail woman drawing a monster on a sheet of paper with a little long-haired bird girl looking on.On an orange spray painted background, there is a wrinkled film still from Endless Cookie depicting a globe with North America. On the northwestern end, labled SHAMattawa, a brightly colored man holds a phone where he is going to call "Brother Seth." Pointing at Toronto, a man in a red beanie is on the phone. The still is labelled above as "Endless Cookie, dir. Seth Scriver & Peter Scriver." The logo for Sea Slug Animation festival is on the bottom.On an orange spray painted background, there is a wrinkled film still from Rita depicting a black and white scene of an old snail woman on a dog-motorcycle hybrid vehicle. Behind her sits a little long-haired bird girl. The are on a beach. The still is labelled above as "Rita dir. Francesca Colombara" The logo for Sea Slug Animation festival is on the bottom.
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Shout out to our man Zack!!!
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Get in, it’s poster reveal time. 😤 Our good friends @zinehug.bsky.social continued the tradition of making animation visible in print, using the “onion skin” effect to show multiple frames in one image. You can buy a limited edition RISO print from Zine Hug at our Artist Alley on February 28!
RISO printed poster for Sea Slug Animation Festival (Furious Edition) that depicts a young punk in the air kicking a helmeted, cyberpunk officer in the face. Both characters are followed by onion skins of their movements. The festival dates are noted as February 27-March 1, 2026 at SIFF Cinema Uptown in Seattle.
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
In 2025, we hosted our very first Larval Edition. It was amazing, thanks to the incredible artists and audience members who joined us. But these larvae are all grown up now. And we’re p*ssed off! 💢 THE FURIOUS EDITION 💢 February 27–28 SIFF Cinema Uptown Save the date… 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🐌
The Sea Slug Animation Festival logo, drippy and fuzzy as if spray painted, is on top of a pink an purple spray painted background. Above the logo reads: "The Furious Edition, Feb. 27–28, 2026, SIFF Cinema Uptown."
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Congratulations to Julian Glander for securing distribution!! We HIGHLY recommend ‘Boys Go to Jupiter’ here at Sea Slug ❤️🍊
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SIFF @siffnews.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The #SIFF2025 lineup just went live! With 245 films from 74 countries around the globe, there’s an excursion for everyone. 🎞️🌎 Tickets are now on sale to SIFF members. Access for the general public begins 4/24 10:00am PT. Explore the lineup: siff.info/festtw.
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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
BREAKING: Annecy Festival selects 21 animated features for competition lineups. Here's the list accompanied by commentary from the festival's artistic director about why each film was selected for competition. www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...
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Annecy Selects 21 Animated Features For Competition Lineups
The Annecy Festival's artistic director provides commentary on why each feature film was selected for competition.
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Grace Kraft - ButchBlueBird 🔜 ASC ’26 @gracekraft.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
youtu.be/BnjYR82MwAY?... begging everyone to watch these 2 gay little animals
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The Meaning of Bunny's Dream (Animated Short)
YouTube video by Anatola Howard
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AdiFitri @adifitri.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Better a pig than a gen A.I. user!
Pencil sketch of the Studio Ghibli character, Porco Rosso with a modified quote from the movie "Better a pig than a gen A.I. user!"
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NPR @npr.org · 27/03/2025
The festival has been a Park City, Utah institution for over 40 years.
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The Sundance Film Festival announces its new home: Boulder, Colorado
The festival has been a Park City, Utah institution for over 40 years.
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Hayao Miyazaki should be allowed to kill at least one person
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Some fantastic news amidst The Horrors!
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〚Ẋ〛 @projectendo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🎤
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We are SO ready!!
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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
‘Olive Place’ is a surreal cartoon set in a hotel with bizarre guests. Watch Cartoon Brew's Short Pick of the Day here:
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'Olive Place' Is A Surreal Cartoon Set In A Hotel With Bizarre Guests
Jarrod Prince’s 'Olive Place' is a lo-fi technical kaleidoscope that blends puppetry, live action, pixilation, stop motion, and hand-drawn animation.
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🍊 You asked, he answered! 🍊 Julian Glander—director of the Larval Edition’s Opening Spotlight feature, BOYS GO TO JUPITER—has sent us a transmission from the East Coast in the form of a combo Q&A/apology video. vimeo.com/1066445060?s...
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Boys Go to Jupiter — Q&A with Julian Glander
Julian Glander, director of our Opening Spotlight feature, Boys Go to Jupiter, beams in from the East Coast with a combination Q&A and apology video.
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
If you are in any creative or copyright dependent org of any kind, NOW is the time to speak up. You have until March 15 11:59 pm EST to send a note to the WhiteHouse on why we need to follow our current laws. We all lose if tech’s deranged agenda passes. www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...
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Public Comment Invited on Artificial Intelligence Action Plan
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Trump’s recent Artificial Intelligence (AI) Executive Order shows that this Administration is dedicated to America’s global
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Thank you so much, Chase!
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Felix Colgrave @felixcolgrave.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
rain boots
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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
It's nice outside! Tonight is the first post-6pm sunset of the year! 🌞 Come by and say hi! We've got fresh store-made paper pads and blank watercolor postcards with envelopes made from fun and unique misprint/test print Riso scraps!
Hand holding up a handful of green paper pads inside the store. The gallery wall futuring the current show is in the background.Blank watercolor postcards and various colorful envelopes photographed  using the floor of the store as the background.
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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The mini-documentary ‘Soft Skin’ profiles Palestinian children creating cut-out animated films as a means of processing and expressing their experiences through storytelling. Watch our Short Pick of the Day here:
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The Mini-Documentary 'Soft Skin' Profiles Palestinian Children Creating Animated Films
The film takes viewers inside Palestinian tents where children are taught cut-out animation as a vital means of processing and expressing their experiences through storytelling.
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Emil Lundmark @littlelundmark23.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Had the pleasure of animating a shot for the @seasluganimation festival trailer!! If you’re in Seattle this weekend you should come check out the festival! 🥳
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"Flow" won the Oscar for Best Animated Film ♡
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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Underdogs Win! Latvia’s ‘Flow’ and Iran’s ‘In the Shadow of the Cypress’ win Oscars. The winners in both the feature and short animation categories are huge upsets by little films that weren’t backed by money, celebrity, or power. www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/under...
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Underdogs Win! Latvia's 'Flow' And Iran's 'In The Shadow Of The Cypress' Win Oscars
Both the feature and short animation categories were huge upsets by little films that weren't backed by money, celebrity, or power.
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Little Tunny 🐌🤝🧂 @littletunny.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Honestly so many animals remind me of b-man I should draw a new b-manimal daily I think it’d be good for my mental health
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
🎬 Seymour goes to Sea Slug by the seashore! 🎬 Inspired by the diversity of animation and the tradition of reanimated collabs, Sea Slug worked with 12 West Coast animators to create our festival trailer—one artist per shot. vimeo.com/1057958651?s...
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Sea Slug Animation Festival - Larval Edition Trailer
🎬 Seymour goes to Sea Slug by the seashore! 🎬 Inspired by the diversity of animation and the tradition of reanimated collabs, Sea Slug worked with 12 West Coast…
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Crow's Nest Comics @crowsnest.quest · 19/02/2025
Spicylastic Book Fair is BACK! We're once again partnering with Wild at Heart (Seattle's neighborhood queer-owned sex shop) for a spicy romantic kinky queer book fair. Drop by Wild at Heart on Sunday 3/2 from 2 to 8 to check out some amazing comics in a sex/kink-positive, queer-friendly shop!
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Grand Illusion Cinema @grandillusioncinema.org · 18/02/2025
There's a new animation festival in town! @seasluganimation.bsky.social debuts at SIFF Uptown March 7–8, celebrating the ingenuity, creativity, & weirdness of independent animation for adults. We're not part of this fest—just sharing the news in the spirit of community! Tix: seasluganimation.com
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Gints Zilbalodis @gintszilbalodis.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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Crow's Nest Comics @crowsnest.quest · 14/02/2025
They may not be giving away Magic cards but HRT is an extremely important and powerful project and needs your support. www.omprakash.org/global/distr... Donate to a cause that keeps us wanting to live and away from having to call a suicide hotline in the first place.
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GKIDS Films @gkids.com · 14/02/2025
We're ✨🌀❤️feeling fantastic💙🌹✨ this Valentine's Day. #arcane
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Gints Zilbalodis @gintszilbalodis.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Cat's out of the bag. Flow will join the @criterion.bsky.social www.indiewire.com/news/breakin...
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Sometimes a good short makes you happy you’re alive on this fragile mortal plane. Sometimes it makes you cry. Sometimes it does both, even on the fifth watch when you’re just checking the subtitles work!! 🦀 Shorts I: Everything Animated All At Once! 🦀 March 8 | 3:30PM | SIFF Cinema Uptown
Text: Sea Slug Animation Festival – SHORTS 1, Everything Animated All at Once!
Below the text is a still from the short "A Festa." The still contains a bright blue clay coil with a slice out of the top and a red dot in the middle of the slice. The coil is on a blue table surrounded by blurred geometric shapes. The background is salmon-colored.
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Official Taiwanese poster for "Nausicaa" (in cinemas there on March 6). www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fuR...
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SIFF @siffnews.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Join instructor @izzyvonghoul.bsky.social next Tuesday, 2/18, for a Film Talk that takes a deep dive into the all-timer anime, AKIRA (1988)! And prepare for this talk by watching AKIRA at the UPT on 2/16.
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Anime Auteurs: Akira
Join instructor Isabella Von Ghoul as we deep dive into Katushiro Otomo’s Akira.
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Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
And the line-up is live! Highlights: 🔹 The Seattle premiere of BOYS GO TO JUPITER followed by virtual Q&A with director Julian Glander 🔹 Two shorts blocks with filmmaker Q&As 🔹 An Artist Alley full of local artists 🔹 The return of the unstreamable ALLEGRO NON TROPPO Visit: seasluganimation.com
Image of the time schedule for Sea Slug Animation Festival. On Friday, March 7: Opening Spotlight of "Boys Go to Jupiter" and "Miisufy" at 7PM. On Saturday, March 8: Shorts 1 (Everything Animated All at Once!) at 12PM, Artist Alley at SIFF Film Center at 1:45PM, Shorts 2 (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) at 3:30PM, Anim-Mixer at 5:30PM, Closing Retro of "Allegro non troppo" and "Gina Kamentsky's Pinocchio in 70mm" at 7PM, and wrap party at 9PM. Drippy blue Sea Slug Animation Festival logo at the center top of the graphic. The background is a swirly aqua and pink.
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Dominique Ramsey 𓃥 @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Multiple heads of purple panthers, varying in age, raise their voices in unison against opposing threats.
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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 11/02/2025
If you want to impress your before-and-after Valentine's Day date: Three amazing animated shorts are to be screened on February 13 and February 15, with producer from MIYU Distribution to answer your questions. See the info in the image below and RSVP Here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Possessed opossum @possessedopossum.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
David Finch...
David Lynch caricaturized as a cartoon finch
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