Cat Ciao News
[chronology and latest
breaking news!]
(last modified 8/25/2004)
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08.25.2004
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Break out the champagne again! CAT CIAO (director's cut) wraps! This is a shorter (2:30) and much more graphic and demented version of CAT CIAO made just for Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation. It will be part of their upcoming DVD as well as their new theatrical world tour lineup. Stay tuned for more info on this exciting news! | ||
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08.02.2004
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Break out the champagne! Cat Ciao
is finally available on DVD for purchase. Cat Ciao is part of
the illustrious lineup of great CG shorts in a nicely packaged DVD
from the same producer of "Mind's Eye" and "Beyond Mind's Eye" called
COMPUTER ANIMATION JOURNEYS. Here is the lineup many of
which I'm sure you have seen before:
Spaz the cat sez, "Thanks for your
support of independently produced animations! Meoooowwww!!" |
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07.22.2004
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Cat Ciao will be screening at a special
SPIKE AND MIKE'S SICK & TWISTED
FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION at the 2004 COMIC-CON Convention here in San
Diego. Here's the vital info:
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02.27.2003
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Cat ciao makes an encore screening at the San Diego Film Foundation's premiere showcase of local filmmakers in a program they called, "A CELEBRATION OF SHORTS." It will be projected from the newly mastered DVD. Come and support Spaz the Cat!
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| 05.16.2002
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Another chance to see Cat
Ciao on cable television! Can't make it go away! :)
Also airs (all Eastern Times):
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| 04.09.2002 | Last
chance to see Cat Ciao on national TV. Check it out on Tech TV's
premiere program "Eye
Drops" on Friday, April 12, 2002. According to their website,
here are the following encore air times:
Check your local listings for the exact channel number in your area. If you're lucky enough to live in San Diego, here are the cable channel numbers for Tech TV:
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| 04.01.2002 |
It's OFFICIAL! Cat Ciao is scheduled to air on Tech TV's premiere animation show "Eye Drops" on April 5, 2002. According to their website, here are the following air times:
Note: Tech TV is a national cable channel that most likely requires a higher service than the basic cable package. Check your local listings for the exact channel number in your area. If you're lucky enough to live in San Diego, here are the cable channel numbers for Tech TV:
If you have this channel, and happen to catch this show, please let me know how it is cuz I don't get this channel myself. Enjoy! |
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| 02.18.2002 |
Cat Ciao scheduled for national cable TV appearance on TechTV's premiere show of "Eye Drops" on March 17, 2002. Check your local listings for exact time or stay tuned when I find out myself. Let's hope this show will be the beginning of a great forum for indie cgi filmmakers from now on. |
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| 11.01.2001 | Cat Ciao wins 1st Place Award in DV Contest's Comedy Category. This contest features digital works by independent filmmakers in categories that also include drama, sci-fi, horror, children, adult, action, and documentary. We'll see if this leads to six-figure deals for Spaz ;) | ||
| 08.15.2001 | Spaz
and myself made an impromptu appearance at this year's Siggraph2001
in Los Angeles for an interview on the making of CatCiao. Turns out
Cat Ciao has been invited to be part of the upcoming premiere
episode of Dash's Animation House
program on TechTV, a nationally-televised cable show. Spaz will be in
good company along with some really great shorts that you'll just have
to tune in to find out. Look for it Fall 2001, end of September they tell me. Stay tuned! |
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| 03.24.2001
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Selected to be shown at The California SUN International Animation Festival, March 23-24-31, 2001, in the Computer Animation category. The venue will be California State University, Northridge, (map) Campus Theatre on March 24, and on March 31, at Ventura College, Science Lecture Theater 222. Go check it out! | ||
| 01.12.2001
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Scheduled
to be shown at the 3rd Annual San Francisco
Independent Film Festival Jan 11-21, 2001. Currently schedule as a pre-featureatte short film on Jan 12 at the Digital MovieHouse & Festival Lounge, with an encore performance on Jan 17. For more info, surf to: http://www.sfindie.com/indiefest01/html/superstarlet.html |
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| 12.29.2000 | Currently streaming on HotPopTV.com as part of the first ever Asian American Internet Film Festival. Spaz wants you to go there and vote for this film!! This contest runs til February 2001 and the winner will become the "King of the World.". Spaz sez Thanx! | ||
| 12.25.2000 | Merry Xmas! Santa brought Spaz a wonderful gift this Christmas. He must've been a good kitty this year. Well, not really but "Cat Ciao" surpassed the 60,000-Viewed milestone on iFILM.com today! That's more viewers than the number of people who saw the latest Adam Sandler's flick! Thanx y'all for all y'all support! | ||
| 12.02.2000 | Televised on national TV on the Discovery Channel in a program called Tivo Takes as the "iFILM of the Week." This is "Cat Ciao's" television debut. Let's hope it shows up next on "Must See TV" or something. | ||
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11.13.2000 |
Accepted
to the San
Francisco Independent Film Festival
January 11-21, 2001. The exact time of
showing is TBD. Check back here for showtime. |
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11.09.2000
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Selected
by Tivo
to be
shown on
The Discovery Channel
tentatively scheduled for December 2, 2000. It will be featured
as the "IFILM of the week" in a program called "Tivo
Takes." The exact time of showing is TBD. Check back here
for exact showtime. |
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11.03.2000 |
Cat Ciao becomes #1 "Most Viewed Animation (of the week)" on iFILM. Also breaks into iFILM's "Top 20 Rated Animation of All-Time List" at #16. |
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11.02.2000 |
After a slow start, Cat Ciao becomes #2 "Most Viewed Film of Any Category (of the week)" on iFILM and featured on their frontpage as an "iFILM Favorite." |
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10.14.2000 |
Cat Ciao makes its CyberSpace debut on iFILM, streamable in Realplayer, Windows Media 100k & 300k, and QuickTime 300k formats. |
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| 08.24.2000 | Cat Ciao, the final "Director's Cut" version is finished and submitted to iFILM. This version contains more robust soundFX as well as a few added shots. This is the last of many "Director's Cut" versions. | ||
| 08.12.2000 | Cat Ciao debuts in my hometown of San Diego at the first annual San Diego Asian Film Festival as part of the "Moo Shoo Madness" program. | ||
| 07.23.2000 | Cat Ciao's first "completed" version debuts at Siggraph2000 Conference in New Orleans as part of the weeklong Animation Theaters "Digital Dementia" Program. | ||
| 05.21.2000 | An early version of Cat Ciao makes its North American debut at the Los Angeles Visual Communications FilmFest 2000 May 18-25, 2000. | ||
| 09.1999 | Production of Cat Ciao officially begins at Stanford University with the modeling of the BabyDactyl character. Not coincidentally, my caffeine addiction begins hereon. | ||
| 05.1999
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In the middle of a Maya tutorial class at the annual 3D Conference & Expo, the first Cat Ciao thumbnail images were doodled onto my sketchbook. This was ground zero for the birth of Cat Ciao. | ||
