Clare Kitson, John Coates, Gerry Travers, Fred Seibert, and Phil Roman

Cori Stern provides a test to see if you too can join the executive ranks at the animation company of your choice.

William Moritz with the Anima Mundi Festival Director, Marcos Magalhães. Courtesy of William Moritz. The fourth international Anima Mundi animation festival took place in Rio de Janeiro August 16-25, 1996, overlapping a bit with Hiroshima. Unlike the rather hectic pace and nervous business rivalry of the older and bigger festivals, Anima Mundi offers a relaxed and user-friendly atmosphere for discovering and enjoying animation. Naturally, it is rather hard to separate the event from the city of Rio, which is one of the most dazzling places, with its perfect weather,...

America's Hearst Entertainment and Venezuela's Cisneros Group are combining forces to form a new, 24-hour-a-day animation channel for Latin America. Harvey Deneroff reports.

SIGGRAPH, held between August 4-9, at the Morial Convention Center, in New Orleans, is the world's largest and most prestigious computer technology event dealing with computer graphics and interactive techniques, of which animation plays a major part. The annual conference is put on by what was once known as the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics (i.e., SIGGRAPH). This year marked the 23rd running of the big daddy of all computer graphic conferences, which acts as a showcase for all the newest and greatest achievements in computerized...

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Monique Renault (Pays-Bas).Jeudi 22, premier jour du festival Arrivée hier après avoir survolé la moitié du monde sans en avoir vu grand chose. Si. Taiwan. C'est beaucoup plus grand que je ne l'imaginais. Pour moi, Taiwan c'etait un amoncelement de petits ateliers où les gens s'entassent pour fabriquer des faux Dior, des fausses Rayban ou Adidas ... Apparemment ils ont aussi des montagnes et de la verdure. Je suis contente de revenir à Hiroshima. En mai dernier, pour la selection - ah! la sélection! - j'avais découvert le...

The International Animation Festival in Hiroshima is often referred to as the most organized animation festival in the world, and for good reason. Every screening, symposium, publication, party, exhibition, press conference and ceremony of the festival was expertly timed, translated and presented by a dedicated group of staff members and volunteers. For details on specific programs, please read Monique Renault's personal account of the week's events elsewhere in this issue. What is really so unique about Hiroshima is its simultaneous dedication to the art of animation and the promotion of...

Editor's Notebook by Harvey Deneroff.

The GiggleBone Gang is alive and well at Seattle-based Headbone Interactive. Judith Shane explains it all.