Scott Ross, Jane Baer and Bob Rogers.

If you like to second-guess jury decisions, Ottawa '96 was the perfect animation festival for you. Almost as good as the O.J. Simpson trial. Even the Grand Prize Winner engaged in some public secondguessing.Ottawa award winners, Igor Kovalyov, Pritt Parn and Paul Dressien.When Russian animator Igor Kovalyov came forward to accept his best film of the festival trophy for Bird in the Window, he was suitably gracious if somewhat stunned. He thought Priit Parn would win it for his film 1895. This was the perfect ending to an enjoyable animation festival that featured some peculiar choices for...

Festivals are wonderful places to discover the like-minded and the like-minded wannabes. The debut of the Brisbane Animation Festival, cheekily entitled Celluloid Briefs, drew the vibrant Queensland animation community and the lovers of animation to revel in two days of flickering projected images. And, it appears from the success of this first time out, it will be, as the organizers have promised, a biennial event. Brisbane, a city of about one and a half million has a surprisingly active animation group. With 260 members in the Queensland Animators Group, the organization is certainly on...

Robin Allan examines how Disneyland, the progenitor of today's theme parks, came into being and the role animation had in it.

Judith Rubin surveys what's going on in animated ridefilms at theme parks and other venues around the world and who's making them.

Philippe Moins takes a look at one of the oldest and most respected animation schools in continental European.

Bob Swain interviews director Jim Cameron's reworking of Terminator 2 for Universal Studios theme park in Orlando, Terminator 2-3D .

Tom Sito, June Foray and Bob Basler.

Jill McGreal discusses the politics of funding for animation via the European Union's CARTOON initiative, which is trying to create the infrastructure for a transnational industry.

Fred Patten takes a look at Japan's first animated feature, a propaganda tract made at the behest of the country's military government.