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

New York-based HEAVY.COM is looking for ANIMATORS to join their growing

staff. Applicants are expected to have solid skills in drawing,

storytelling, design, Flash and interpersonal dynamics. Prior filmmaking

experience and/or background in traditional 2D animation techniques is a

plus.





For more information about these and other jobs, check out AWN's

Career Connections, the online Animation Job Fair.

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

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 subscription of the ANIMATION FLASH before

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

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.

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

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

This weekend, Film Roman, Inc., producers of THE SIMPSONS and KING OF THE
HILL, launched Level 13.net, an innovative multi-channel animation network
to be delivered via the Internet. Level 13 is the industry's first
regularly scheduled, animated television-like network made directly for the
Web. William Shpall, Chief Operating Officer of Film Roman, and architect
of the company's Internet strategy, said, "While many of today's
entertainment and Internet leaders are still testing enhanced television

Like Woody and Buzz, Visual Magic Magazine is back. After a period of
inactivity, your favorite visual effects & 3D animation magazine is back on
the web sporting a brand new look, a new way of publishing, and a renewed
commitment to providing superior articles and news to visual effects and
animation professionals and enthusiasts. The only thing we don't have is
Tom Hanks and Tim Allen. But that can be arranged (maybe). "Toy Story 2" is
hitting our screens very soon, and of course, you can expect full coverage

Mondo Media, one of the Bay Area's largest independent animation studios,
is looking for TRADITIONAL 2D CHARACTER ANIMATORS and DIRECTORS who are
interested in participating in the creation of original on-line
entertainment. The Mondo Mini Shows are currently featured on Netscape's
Netcenter, Shockwave.com, and Altavista, as well as other affiliate sites.
Contract and staff positions available. Job Requirements: Traditional
character animation experience; Timing; Poses; Knowledge of basic

Shockwave.com, owned and operated by
Macromedia Inc., and Stan Lee, Inc. have teamed up to bring Stan Lee's
first episodic Web animation series to life. Stan Lee, the genius behind
classic comic characters like Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Incredible
Hulk, will create his new 5-minute "Web-isodes" using Macromedia Flash
technology. According to Lee this new venture will allow the whole world to
be part of his new creations without limitations. This exclusive deal
includes Macromedia, Inc.'s $5 million purchase of Stan Lee Media Inc.

Macromedia, the producers of popular web and graphics tools Flash, Director, and Freehand, recently announced a new product bundle: Dreamweaver 3 Fireworks 3 studio. The bundle contains new versions of Dreamweaver and Fireworks, however, both of the new versions will be available as stand-alone applications. Dreamweaver, the most popular web authoring tool available to designers, boasts several new features, most notably a new feature which allows users to customize Dreamweaver itself using Javascript, HTML, and XML.

Several weeks ago (Animation Flash 9/28/99) Oxygen Media, Geraldine Laybourne's company founded to
provide content for women, announced its online production team. Now Oxygen
Media has named seven executive producers for its original cable television
line-up. CARSEY WERNER MANDABACH will oversee seven hours of original
programming each day on the 24-hour-a-day, 7 day-a-week cable network. The
new appointments are: LINDA CORRADINA (former Senior Vice President,
Programming and Production, VH1) will join Giselle Benetar as Executive

New York City-based Oxygen Media,Geraldine Laybourne's company founded to provide content for women, has
reached an agreement with Insight Communications to distribute the Oxygen
cable network. Insight is the 8th largest cable operator in the United
States, serving more than one million customers in six states. Under the
terms of the agreement, Insight Communications will launch Oxygen across
the majority of its systems. The new Oxygen cable network, which launches
on O2/O2/2000, will be integrated with Oxygen's existing online properties

Macromedia, the industry leader in web design and web graphics tool
development, announced several moves and agreements which gear the
company toward taking e-commerce to a new level, and making Macromedia a
central part of this growing sector's evolution. The company unveiled its
eBusiness Infrastructure strategy, i.e. plans to provide 'solutions' for
content creation, management, personalisation and management of Extranet
and Internet sites.


The company also made several other significant announcements, most notably

Burnaby, British Columbia-based CDIS is offering a one-day industry
introduction to Macromedia's Flash 4.0 on October 23 from 9 am-4:30 pm.
Cost is $225, which includes lunch. By the end of the seminar, you'll know
how to prepare graphics for Flash, use the interface, sketch and draft
ideas for animation and interactivity, create symbols and manipulate
instances for actions, combine the final pieces into your own 30-second
animated banner with sound, and post the final product to the web with FTP.