We offer our "VFX Summer Preview: 10 Movies to Watch" this week.

AWNtv takes you to the great outdoors in this collection of animated shorts.

This week in AWN's Forums, a member is looking for a 3D animator to create a bunch (600+) of short character animated videos for a new fitness website. A member wants to know how much to pay for a three-minute animated pilot in Flash. A discussion is going on about adult animation and what exactly that is. A student needs a quick and easy way of compositing one layer of animation over a background. Someone needs clips of birds circling a dazed characters' head. Besides WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, what other places can this be found?

While SIGGRAPH 2009 may still be a few months away (the first week of August in New Orleans), Conference Chair Ronen Barzel provides an exclusive sneak peek of this year's "Network Your Senses" theme, including more emphasis on music and audio, greater integration of gaming, continued expansion of the Computer Animation Festival, elevating digital art to the same level as technical research, highlighting the new field of Information Aesthetics and connecting once again with the cultural richness of New Orleans, despite the challenges of the economic downturn.

This week in AWN's Forums, a discussion is going on the best social networking sites (besides AWN) out there.

AWNtv has put together its list of the ten summer animation and visual effects features we can't wait to see.

Test your skills and challenge your brain with AWN's Animation Trivia Quiz.

We've been negotiating for a while with MPC to cover its new Santa Monica-based boutique, and finally you can read Ellen Wolff's informative report.

This week in AWN's Forums, a member wants to know what's the term for when a cel of animation is mispainted? For example, Daffy's hands are yellow instead of black for a frame of animation. Maybe a glossary of little-used terms is in order. Besides AWN, which networking site works best for your professional needs? Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter? Or another? A member is looking for royalty-free vehicle models for Maya; anyone know where to find a site online that sells them? Anyone know how to pitch a show idea in Australia? A member has an idea.

Adults-only animation for your viewing pleasure.