Animated to the sound of Mexican alt-rock band Cafe Tacuba, October finalist Pablo Polledri has done it again with his cartoon short, REMEMBERING. Find out what makes this animator tick!

The Founder of Cold Hard Flash (coldhardflash.com), new aniboom judge Aaron Simpson boasts an impressive resume. He's the Emmy-nominated Producer of "Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island," (a Flash animated show) aired on Kids'WB!, has produced over a dozen development shorts for the WB, served as the Senior Producer of Original Content at Sony and held the title of VP, Animation & Development at JibJab Media.

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Even if you entered your video to our animation competition on Dec. 31st, you could STILL win. How? Our judges are giving away 5 golden tickets the first week of January. That means 5 previously unselected films enter the Finals round. Don't get left out - Submit your movie now!

We are proud to announce our first five animation competition finalists! They'll be receiving Toon Boom Software and Aniboom T-shirts!
The selections for October are:
Drama: Gooshun Wang - HALLUCII
Funny: Peter Harakaly - CHEESE
Experimental: Itai Froumin - ILLUMINATIONS
Unpolished: Pablo Polledri - REMEMBERING
Music Video : Maria Avramova - YOUR LIBIDO

Stay tuned for November's finalists, coming up Dec. 1st!

Rony Oren has been running his own independent animation studio, Claytoons, since 1978, the producer of over 500 critically aclaimed animation films. A master of the plastelina (claymation) stop-motion technique, Rony has written over 25 books and currently heads up the animation dept. at Bezalel Art & Design Academy in Jerusalem.

Originally from Holland, animator Paul Driessen is most well known for his work on the classic 1967 animation, THE YELLOW SUBMARINE by George Dunning. Winner of over 70 international awards including the ASIFA-International "Life Achievement Award", we're proud to have Paul back again from last year.