FPS (Frames Per Second), the Canadian animation magazine, now has a

questionnaire on-line that they invite all readers, new and old, to fill

out. The FPS survey is located at

http://www.awn.com/fps/.





The current issue of FPS (#18) is available for sale in AWN's

Newsstand,

where you can subscribe to your favorite animation publications and

Funkmation Studios, an animation house providing services for film,

television, CD-Rom and the Web, has floated into a new home in Brooklyn's

Navy Yard. The animation house will share the new space with New York

Studios' film and television sound stage. Funkmation's credits include:

SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH CD-Rom; storyboard and background design on

COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG; Flash animation on Partner Re's screen savers;

and a 2D animation pilot with C&C Films entitled MAXIMUM BLACK. The new

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critique of world animation, acclaimed as a classic work of scholarship,

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New Visual Entertainment, Inc., a 3D production company specializing in 3D

product development and distribution for special venue theaters, home

video, broadcast, and theatrical markets, has announced its completed

acquisition of Impact Pictures, Inc., a small San Diego-based multi-media

production house specializing in Web animation, streaming media and

high-end CD-ROM corporate presentations, in a stock for stock transaction.

New Visual plans to utilize the creative hardware and staffing assets of

Three new Scandinavian markets surrendered their airwaves to Pokemania.

Worldwide sensation Pokemon was recently sold to TV4 in Sweden, TV2 in

Denmark and TV2 in Norway. The show will hit the new territories in January

and February 2000. The international distributor, Lacey Entertainment, also

announced the sale of the Pikachu-vehicle to ATV in Turkey and Noga

Communications' Children's Channel in Israel.





The Pokemon phenomenon began in America in 1998 with the release of the

Visual Magic Magazine, AWN's 3D animation and digital effects online

magazine, has posted a new article:

"The Buzz About Flash 4." Flash 4

claims to be the ultimate tool for web animation...and quite frankly, it

probably is.

Animation World Network will be publishing a special NATPE

edition of our weekly E-mail newsletter, Animation Flash,

on January 18, 2000. To insure all your NATPE-related news

is printed in the Flash please submit press releases to

rick@awn.com by January 14, 2000. Please put "NATPE News"

in the subject area of your e-mail.

Sign up now for AWN's ANIMATION FLASH Newsletter and your name will

be entered in a drawing to win a copy of this comprehensive history

and critique of world animation, acclaimed as a classic work of

scholarship, and an indispensable addition to any animation library.

AWN is giving away ten copies of this prestigious book to its

subscribers by drawing lots. This exceptional Millennium drawing is

open to all new subscribers and re-subscribers who buy a yearly

shockwave.com, One Infinity and Madlab Creative have produced Why2k@large which uses Flash 4 animation and MP3 streaming audio technologies to present an animated, multimedia series focusing on the approach of the year 2000. Live interviews were collected on the streets of New York City, New Orleans and San Francisco featuring what the American public thinks about the approaching Millennium.

During the past few weeks, it seems like everyday there is an announcement
regarding a company beginning to broadcast animation over the 'net. With
Level 13 and Wild Brain recently throwing their hats into the ring with
their new Internet entertainment web sites, web surfers are starting to see
the beginning of a boom in Internet animation. Level13.net and
WildBrain.com join Harvey Entertainment, which launched realcartoons.net
just over a week ago, and Time-Warner, which launched Entertaindom.com last