The Kalamazoo Animation Festival International is the premiere animation festival of the mid-west. Among the top twenty of all animation festivals their aim is to encourage and showcase animation artists and to bring Kalamazoo into national focus as an animation locale.

TODAY, a Sundance Channel promotional film commissioned in association with JWT/NYC as part of their, Billy Collins Animated Poetry series, was directed by Little Fluffy Clouds’ creative team, Jerry van de Beek and Betsy de Fries. The film is an animated poem written by US Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, who narrates the piece.

This year’s KAFI 2007 will be the biggest and most well supported yet. Little Fluffy Clouds, TODAY, will find itself in the company of many animation luminaries worldwide.

See: www.kafi.kvcc.edu.

In a year of “brilliant and creative animated commercials”, Little Fluffy Clouds TODAY, was awarded kudos by being chosen as one of Animation Magazine’s Anicomm Awards 2007, ‘Magnificent Seven’.

“We couldn’t take our eyes off the screen when this eye-popping and effective Sundance Channel interstitial premiered last May. Part of the network’s, Billy Collins Action Poetry series, the piece is an animated recreation of the U.S. Poet Laureate’s poem, which describes a perfect spring day. Animated in Illustrator, After Effects and Maya, along with hand-drawn illustrations, the short features dancing butterflies and flowery fields. Yet, it’s definitely not your typical saccharine carpe-diem package. It works its magic on you effortlessly.

TODAY, a Sundance Channel promotional film commissioned in association with JWT/NYC as part of their, Billy Collins Animated Poetry series, was directed by Little Fluffy Clouds’ creative team, Jerry van de Beek and Betsy de Fries. The film is an animated poem written by US Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, who narrates the piece.

See the March 2007 issue of Animation Magazine or www.animationmagazine.net