Nickelodeon's Worldwide Development Group, an international team of
Nickelodeon creative and development executives, is launching Nickelodeon's
first global animation storyboard competition. The competition is open to
animators around the world. Six winners will be given the opportunity to
produce a one to three minute animated short based on their winning
storyboard and have it air on Nickelodeon channels around the world.
Nickelodeon is looking for innovative animators with fresh,

Thirty-seven never-before-seen CARTOONS FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS PSA's will be shown at the Annecy Film Festival in Annecy, France on Tuesday, June 1 at 6 pm. A global broadcast initiative organized by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), CARTOONS FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS informs people about children's rights, as set forth by the 1989 United Nations General Assembly Convention on the Rights of the Child. To help raise awareness of these rights, UNICEF has collected 66 CARTOONS FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS spots produced by animators from 32 countries.

Two weeks after winning for best short film at the Cannes Film Festival,
Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis' short film, WHEN THE DAY BREAKS (The
National Film Board of Canada), has won the Grand Prix for best animated
short film at Annecy '99, which concluded on Saturday, June 5. The film is
about a pig whose world shifts after a car accident kills a stranger (a
chicken) on her block. The complete list of award winners is as follows:
The special Jury Prize went to AU BOUT DU MONDE/AT THE END OF THE EARTH by

Comic book artist Alex Ross will debut a limited edition lithograph from
the DC Comics graphic novel SUPERMAN: PEACE ON EARTH at the Warner Bros.
Studio Store Gallery at the corner of Fifth Ave. and 57th St. in New York
City on June 10, 1999 at 7 pm. The book tells the story of Superman's
efforts to alleviate world hunger. Sixteen pieces of the artwork to be
auctioned at Sotheby's later in June will be on display at the same Warner
Bros. Studio Store from Sunday, June 6-Saturday, June 12. Ross will donate

* Friday, June 4 - Sunday, June 6. Los Angeles, California, USA.


VES '99: A Festival of Visual Effects will include seminars by Robert Abel,
Dennis Muren, Jim Henson's Creature Shop, ILM's Rob Coleman, NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, John Knoll, Ray Harryhausen, and Scott Squires, and
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute). For more
information contact the Visual Effects Society at tel. (818) 789-7083; fax
(818) 789-7085; e-mail: visual.effects.society@worldnet.att.net; or visit
www.visual-effects-society.org.

The Rhode Island School of Design senior show includes films, videos, and
animation. Shows take place Wednesday, May 19 - Saturday, May 22, 7 pm, and
Friday, June 4, 1 pm and 7 pm in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. For more
information call 401-454-5233. Wednesday, May 19 - Saturday, May 22, 7 pm,
and Friday, June 4, 1 pm and 7 pm. Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

The Nuart in Los Angeles will be showing the 1999 Spike and Mike's Classic
Festival of Animation Friday, May 28-Thursday, June 3. The program includes
Blue Sky Studios' Oscar-nominated BUNNY, Aardman's HUM DRUM, Digital
Domain's TIGHTROPE, Pierre Coffin's PINGS, Peter Reynolds' THE BLUE SHOE,
Annecy-winner SIENTJE, Don Hertzfeldt's BILLY'S BALLOON, Laurent Gorgiard's
MAN WITH THE PENDULOUS ARMS, Behaviour Productions' THE ART OF SURVIVAL,
Chris Landreth's BINGO, Folimage's THE ROMANCE OF MY HEART, Eric Fernandes'

In March, Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd said it was interested in participating in a proposed project to build a Disney theme park in Hong Kong, but it depended on the outcome of talks between the government and Walt Disney Co. . . In Orlando, Florida, Walt Disney World officials said they expected more people than ever to flock to its sprawling Orlando theme park complex, after a 1998 performance that many industry analysts described as mixed. Year in and year out, Disney World proves to be the most popular tourist attraction on the planet.

The second part of UCLA's tribute to Japanese anime takes place May 8 -
June 1, 1999. (The first part of the series, titled MAGICAL BOYS & GIRLS,
took place in January 1999 and was devoted to children's animation.) The
tribute includes the following programs:


THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1999 - 7:30 PM

PRAISE BE TO SMALL ILLS (NAMU ICHIBYO SOKUSAI) (1973, 35mm, 18 min.)
Directed by Tadanari Okamoto. In Japanese with English subtitles.

THE DEMON (ONI)(1972, 35 mm, 8 min.) Directed by Kihachiro Kawamoto. In

Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis' short film, WHEN THE DAY BREAKS (The
National Film Board of Canada), won the Palme d'Or at the recently
concluded 52nd Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, France. It
took four years for Forbis and Tilby to finish the softly colored,
wordless, but musical, story of a pig whose world shifts after a car
accident kills a stranger (a chicken) on her block. Forbis and Tilby began
the production of "When the Day Breaks" by shooting High-8 video of the

On May 15, 1999 the 26th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards were presented in 43
categories during ceremonies held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York
City, and the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills. Outstanding Achievement
in Animation Emmy Awards were presented to William Joyce, Production
Designer for Nelvana's ROLIE POLIE OLIE, Dave Wasson, Production Designer
for "Max and His Special Problem," part of Nickelodeon's OH YEAH! CARTOONS
series, and Mark Zoeller, Storyboard Artist for DreamWorks' TOONSYLVANIA.

Eoin Clarke's DEVIANT! won the Best of Festival award at the first New York
Animation Festival. The first New York Animation Festival presented a
diverse international program of film and video animation from May 13-15 in
New York City. Over 2500 attended the three-day event which was held in
Greenwich Village at The New School for Social Research's Tishman
Auditorium. Here is the complete list of winners: Best of Festival:
DEVIANT! by Eoin Clarke; Honorable Mention: ONE SELF: FISH GIRL by Emily

The 40th Annual Clios, which are given in recognition of outstanding achievement in the advertising industry, have been announced for 1999. The following list includes only animation related awards. For a complete list of winners, visit www.clioawards.com.


ENTRY TYPE: TELEVISION/CINEMA

CATEGORY: ANIMATION–COMPUTER


BRONZE AWARDS:

Advertiser/Product/Service: Nature's Resource

Title: 'Echinacea'

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Chicago

Production Company: Blue Sky/VIFX, Harrison

A building at 2449 Charlotte St. on Hospital Hill, former home of the
Kansas City Slide Co., where A. Vern Cauger hired Disney in 1920, was
bought last year by the University of Missouri-Kansas City, which plans to
demolish the site to make way for a life-sciences facility and parking lot.
Disney worked for more than two years at the Charlotte address, helping
produce slides and one-minute films shown as advertisements in movie
theaters. He worked alongside other Kansas City artists who, like him,

The 26th annual Daytime Emmy Awards were announced on May 21st at New
York's Madison Square Garden Theatre. ARTHUR won Outstanding Children's
Animated Program; Rob Paulsen, the voice of "Pinky" on STEVEN SPIELBERG
PRESENTS: PINKY AND THE BRAIN, won for Outstanding Performer in an Animated
Series; PINKY AND THE BRAIN won for Outstanding Special Class/Animated
Program; VOLTRON won for Outstanding Sound Editing; THE NEW BATMAN/SUPERMAN
ADVENTURES won for Outstanding Sound Mixing - Special Class; STEVEN

A collection that includes several Felix the Cat films, as well as more than 1,500 16mm and 35mm silent films and a vast archive of stills, large-format celebrity portraits, clippings and other memorabilia from Hollywood's Silent Movie Theater will be offered at auction by Butterfield & Butterfield in Los Angeles, California, USA May 23 and 24, 1999. For more information contact Butterfield & Butterfield, Los Angeles, Michael Schwartz, (323) 850-7500 ext. 295; or Levi Morgan, (323) 850-7500 ext. 216; or (415) 861-7500 ext. 348.

*Wednesday, May 19th - Friday, May 21st. Los Angeles, California, USA.


Highlights of the 1999 Conference and Film Festival of the Large Format
Cinema Association include a tribute to large format film pioneer Lester
Novros, the Large Format Film Festival, Large Format animated films, panel
discussions about theater operations and industry business, sessions
exploring production and post production technology, and a screening of
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. For more information contact LFCA at (310) 823-4901.

Each year, Annie Award trophies are awarded for the year's best feature
film, video, television program, commercial, and animated interactive
production, as well as individual achievement by artists, writers and voice
talent. The most prestigious awards given at the annual award ceremonies
are the June Foray award, presented for special service to the artform, and
the Winsor McCay award for a lifetime of achievement in animation. The 27th
Annual Annie Awards ceremony will take place Saturday, November 6, 1999 at

The EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Visualization takes place Wednesday, May 26 -
Friday, May 28. Vienna, Austria. It will feature research papers about all
areas of visualization that will present original scientific ideas or
significant improvements to existing techniques, as well as case studies on
the successful application of visualization methods to special problems.
Contact info: Eduard Groeller, VisSym '99 Institute of Computer Graphics,
Vienna Univ. of Technology, Karlsplatz 13/186/2, A-1040 Wien, Austria.
E-mail: vissym99@cg.tuwien.ac.at.

*Tuesday, May 18th, 12 - 6 pm. New York, New York, USA.


Works by graduating seniors of the film, video, and animation departments
of The School of Visual Arts will be shown at the Loews Cineplex Worldwide
Cinemas (50th Street and 8th Avenue). A reception and awards ceremony
follows the screenings, beginning at 7 pm.