VirtualMagic ASIA, the collaboration of VirtualMagic Animation and
ImagineAsia Studio for 2D digital ink, paint and compositing, is looking
for talented USAnimation Compositors for project work at their digital
animation facility in Manila, Philippines. The start date is mid October,
1999 or before. See VirtualMagic on the web and contact them at:


info@virtualmagicusa.com

Here's an overview of what's shaking on Cartoon Network's happening web site:


THIS MONTH'S NEXT BIG THING: New Web Premiere Toons! "Germtown" - Look
through the microscope at the wonderful world of germs. What do they do all
day anyway? "Saturday Night Fred" - Help Fred and Barney choose what to do
on a Saturday night in Bedrock! "The Marshmallow Money Show" - Hang out
with the kids on one city block and click to hear them give "shout-outs" or
break into rap-style songs!

David Allen, one of a handful of truly great stop-motion animators, died of cancer on Monday, August 16. He
was 55. Allen's work in commercials includes animating the Swiss Miss and
early Pillsbury Doughboy in the 1960s, and his feature work includes
CAVEMAN (1981), Q-THE WINGED SERPENT (1982), WILLOW (1988) and FREAKED
(1993). For ten years he had been working on an independent project, a
feature called PRIMEVALS. (The film will be finished at Full Moon Studios
where the film was being animated before Allen's death.) Allen began his

Warner Bros. Home Video is re-releasing the feature length THE LOONEY,
LOONEY, LOONEY BUGS BUNNY MOVIE, a collection of Looney Tunes by Friz
Freleng. It includes the following Bugs Bunny shorts: KNIGHTY KNIGHT BUGS,
SAHARA HARE, ROMAN LEGION HARE, HIGH DIVING HARE, HARE TRIMMED, SHOW BIZ
BUGS, WILD AND WOOLY HARE, and THE UNMENTIONABLES, as well as CATTY
CORNERED (Tweety & Sylvester), GOLDEN YEGGS (Daffy Duck), and THE THREE
LITTLE BOPS. (Note: Some films may not be complete.) Also from Warner Bros.

Animators in the TV, Film, and Video Game industries are achieving realistic 3D character animation economically and quickly using the suite of motion capture tools available from Motion Analysis Corporation of Santa Rosa, California. At SIGGRAPH 99, the company demonstrated the latest versions of its products.


"We have customers using our ExpertVision system to capture 1,000 moves a
week to produce a 22-minute TV show in only 10 days using just a dozen
animators. The economy and efficiency of producing digital entertainment

Toonz Animation India Pvt. Ltd., a new animation production studio, has purchased 11 licenses of Cambridge Animation Systems' Animo 2D software. All the systems run under Windows NT.



"We selected Animo because it satisfies all of our digital animation needs, whether for commercials, television series or feature films," says Bill Dennis, president and CEO of Toonz Animation.

White Plains, New York-based J.J. Sedelmaier has completed two :30 spots
for Old Navy. "Girls Zip Pocket Flares" features a young magician who
conjures up and controls Old Navy's new zip pocket jeans for her friends.
In "Boys Boarder Jeans," boys show off their large style jeans while
walking the dog, sawing a log, talking to a frog, and paying the rent while
skateboarding. The spots feature a '60s retro-style designed by David
Sheldon.

Newly-formed, Los Angeles-based FilmWorld Inc. Chairman Menahem Golan and
President John Daly have announced the first of many films they will
jointly produce. GUNGA DIN will be based on Rudyard Kipling's story about a
young Indian boy's adventures with the British Army in India. The
screenplay is by James Silke and Joseph Goldman, and the film's release is
projected for the 2000 holiday-season in theaters throughout the world.
Golan has had a film career spanning more than thirty years in which he has

This week's updates to the Calendar of Events includes the 11th International Children's Film Festival in India, and the 27th International Emmy Awards in New York.

Lucasfilm's STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE took in $16.5 million
in 24 territories over the weekend, bringing its foreign total to $154.3
million. In its second weekend in the UK, it finished first and grossed
$8.1 million, which was 70% of the market, for a total of $32.7 million in
11 days alone! It finished first for the third straight weekend in Japan,
as it grossed $4.5 million, for a total of $39.1 million. DreamWorks' THE
PRINCE OF EGYPT grossed $758,000 to bring its foreign total to $118.2