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Do you like video games? What about cool art? If you answered "yes" to either question and live in Los Angeles, I know what you should be doing tonight. iam8bit is opening their newest gallery show, and it's a videogame-themed art extravaganza featuring the work of a variety of returning and first-time artists inspired by classic 1980’s videogames. Last night iam8bit held a small preview, and I stopped by as the doors were closing to take pictures of everything on display. As you'll see after the jump, the show is loaded with some great stuff from 80 artists like Mark Englert, Olly Moss, Aled Lewis, Dkng, Jc Richard, Phantom City Creative, We Buy Your Kids and many, many more. If you'd like to go, the show opens tonight at 7pm and runs until June 30th. iam8bit 2147 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90026 Regular Hours: Opening Night: Friday, June...

With awards season is underway comes the 38th Annual Annie Award nominations, which recognize the year’s best work in animation. Since the creation of the animation-specific Oscar category in 2001, the Annies have predicted the Academy Award winner every year except 2006 and 2008.

Unfortunately, the award has been tainted by controversy after CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg reportedly bought each DreamWorks Animation employee a membership in the International Animated Film Society, Asifa-Hollywood, skewing the voting in the studio’s favor. This likely resulted in a surprise sweep by DreamWorks Animations’ Kung Fu Panda at the Annies in 2008-2009 over Pixar’s eventual Oscar winner, Wall-e.

Disney Studios has since pulled its official support of the event and submissions for the awards, though individual animators are able to submit their films themselves. As a result, the rules were changed for individual achievement categories, but Disney sought a neutral committee of animators from every studio to propose and approve guidelines.