My animation studio is called apt animation and my first production was a short animated film called

A Case On A Peel

My second film, finished in January 2007, is called

Some Like It Heavy

Film Festival Director's Bio

Aidan Terry, 14, is the writer, designer, animator, co-editor, and director of Some Like It Heavy,  an animated short film about a giddy old geezer who goes ga-ga over a gargantuan goddess. He started drawing at age three, and it soon became very clear that art was his passion. He started animation classes at age nine with John Teton of Earthlight Pictures in Santa Barbara, California, and made a three second animated loop after the first class. Some Like It Heavy, completed in January of 2007, runs 5 min 40 sec. and needed over 3000 drawings to complete. It is his second animated film and has been entered in 19 film Festivals world wide. His first, A Case On A Peel, started when it "popped into" his mind after about six months of classes when he was 9 1/2 years old. It required about 18 months and 850 drawings to complete. A Case On A Peel has screened in film festivals in the US, Canada, Europe, and South America.

Festivals and Awards

A Case On A Peel

2005 Santa Barbara International Film Festival World Premiere Screening. 2005 Kalamazoo Animation Festival International Gold Medal StudentYouth Div. 2005 International Student Film Festival Best Animation High School Division 2005 Danville International Children's Film Festival Festival Audience Award 2005 Ojai Youth Film Festival Selected for Screening by Invitation

2005 Ottawa International Animation Festival North America's largest animation festival Selected for Student Competition (109 films selected out of 1880 entered)

2005 Chicago International Children's Film Festival the largest festival of films for children in North America Second Prize/Child-Produced Short film or video

2006 East Lansing Children's Film Festival Selected for Screening by Invitation 2006 Melbourne International Children's Film Festival Melbourne and Sydney, Australia Selected for Screening by Invitation

2006 Impact Festival, New York City—Screening by Invitation

2006 Tri Media Film Festival, Ft Collins, CO—Screening by Invitation

2007 Platform International Animation Festival, Portland, OR Screening by invitation

Some Like It Heavy

2007 International Student Film Festival Best Animation/High School Div.

2007 San Francisco International Children's Film Festival World Premiere

2007 San Diego International Children's Film Festival--Balboa Park April

2007 San Diego International Children's Film Festival--ComicCon July

2007 Li’l Longbaugh Film Festival, Portland, Oregon

2007 Danville International Children's Film Festival

2007 Seattle International Film Festival Futurewave

2007 Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival

2007 California International Animation Festival Finalist Best Animation—2D Animated Shorts—Festival Oct 2-3

2007 Chicago International Children's Film Festival the largest festival of films for children in North America Competition October 2007

2007 International Student Film Festival Hollywood--Nov 2007

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If you are interested in learning about or doing animation, I would recommend that you contact John Teton of Earthlight Pictures . He is my instructor, and an international award winning filmmaker and trainer.