Cassie Soliday

Folklore has it that if you say her name three times, she will think you’re crazy for once is enough to get her attention. Raised in America’s bread bowl, she left her small town for unreasonably hotter temperatures a la California in January 2011 to pursue her dream of working in Animation once she had been degree-d in Traditional Animation from Columbia College Chicago. After a brilliant beginning interning with Nickelodeon Animation Studios, she’s currently having a blast as a Sketch Artist for Disneyland. She tries to be clever @cassiesoliday and sometimes gets pretty close!

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Top 100 Moments that Shaped Animation History

Animation is young. How young? Well, before Film was possible or even thought of, Peter Roget presented a paper called “The Persistence of Vision” that explained to the British Royal Society that a succession of images could induce the illusion of movement and life. That was in 1824- less than 200 years ago. One year later, to test his theory, the Thaumatrope optical toy is used to demonstrate and confirm Roget’s idea.

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10 Ways to Successfully Promote Your Short Film

Congratulations! You’ve made your short film and you’re now ready to show it to the world.

But how exactly does one do that?

You could always hire someone to do it for you. The more money you can pay, the more time they can put into creating a marketing strategy for your film. The less you can pay… well… don’t expect much more than what you could do yourself.

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