AnimationHQ is hosting a chat with talented and veteran animator, Heidi Guedel. She spent time at Disney, Don Bluth Productions and Warner Brothers. She has worked on many Feature Animation titles including The Secret of NIMH, The Fox and the Hound, An American Tail, and Quest for Camelot. In addition, she did character layout for Rough Draft Studios (Futurama), worked in multimedia at Vortex Media Arts, and worked on videogame animation for the classic 80's laserdisc games "Dragon's Lair" and "Space Ace". The chat will take place on Saturday, December 6th at 8 pm EST. You can go to http://animationhq.net/v2/features/events.htm for more information on him and the directions on how to get to the chat room located towards the bottom of the page. Don't miss it!

Women in Animation is hosting an evening of Santa-Ria at WIA/LA's annual Christmas Party. The event offers a chance for schmoozing, networking and general catching-up, accompanied by an array of finger foods. A no-host bar will be available for libations and wassails. The event will take place at the Barsac Brasserie, 4212 Lankershim Blvd, beginning at 6:30 pm. Attendees must RSVP by December 5 by calling (310) 535-3838.

The Toronto Animated Image Society will be hosting its annual Holiday Party. Everyone is invited to come and celebrate the season. Organizers are asking everyone to bring food and drink to share. TAIS Animators' Co-op is located at 37 Hanna Avenue, Suite 231, Toronto. Enter the building by door 5A, south side of building and walk up to the second floor. The party will run from 6:00 to 9:30 pm and admission is free. For more information, e-mail: Tais@bellnet.ca or visit http://www.awn.com/tais.

If you are a business development executive or deal with animation acquisitions we invite you to check this out!

The Film & TV Department - Embassy of France is bringing a collection of animation pilots and new programming in Los Angeles, December 11th, 2003 at the Goethe institut (5750 Wilshire Boulevard - Suite 100).
Find out what the top French animation companies have been producing and how to contact them and the creatives behind the shows.

The evening will start off with a screening at 7:00 pm. followed by a Q&A with Special Animation Guests from France. And then, a cocktail party following at 8:00 pm.

If this sounds like something you are interested in, please let us know as soon as possible by responding to sebastien.connan@diplomatie.fr with your complete contact information including mailing address and phone number.

Seats are limited and we are quickly assembling the guest list as the event is just around the corner. We hope to see you there!

AnimationHQ is excited to welcome accomplished voice actor, David Kaye. David has a long list of credits and is well known for such characters like Sesshomaru from INU YASHA, Professor Xavier in X-MEN: EVOLUTION, Spectral in REBOOT, Treize Khushrenada in MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM WING, and of course Megatron in TRANSFORMERS: ARMADA, BEAST WARS, and BEAST MACHINES. That is just to name a few of the vast roles he has done. The chat will take place on Saturday, December 13th at 6 pm EST/3 pm PST. You can go to http://animationhq.net/v2/features/events.htm for more information on him and the directions on how to get to the chat room located towards the bottom of the page. Don't miss it!

Annual Conference of Digital Media/Animation for educators from all higher education institutes and professional training organizations, publishers and other related companies in China to discuss topics of education and training programs, textbooks, industry trends, police, theory and technology of the field.

Organizers:
Beijing Normal University Institute of Digital Media
Beijing University Department Digital Arts
Tsinghua University SJC New Media Center
Beijing Film Academy School of Animation
Beijing Broadcast Institute School of Animation
Zhejiang University National Key Lab of CG
ACM SIGGRAPH Beijing Chapter

Artists Helping Artists (AHA!) and THE CREATIVE LINE magazine will be holding an AHA! artists gatherings. This AHA gathering is free. The meeting is a safe space where artists, musicians, writers, arts educators and community arts leaders can make new contacts and share and align their creative visions and projects. It

Artists Helping Artists (AHA!) and THE CREATIVE LINE magazine will be holding an AHA! artists gatherings. This AHA gathering is free. The meeting is a safe space where artists, musicians, writers, arts educators and community arts leaders can make new contacts and share and align their creative visions and projects. It

Thursday, January 8th 2:30 & 6:30 PM
Future Media Concepts - Washington, DC
818 18th St. NW, Suite 630, Washington DC 20006


Future Media Concepts knows how important it is to stay ahead of the curve. To keep you and your work at the cutting edge, FMC is hosting two not-to-be-missed Softimage events in Washington DC, on January 8th 2004.



Softimage

ASIFA-Hollywood is putting out a call for volunteers for the upcoming Annie Awards on Feb. 7, 2004. On January 8 at 7:30 pm, the ballot meeting needs volunteers to prepare the ballots for mailing. On January 14 at 7:30 pm, the Annies Volunteer Meeting will address event pre-production, which will include assistance with the program book, coordination of advertising, name badges, signage/layout, printing, juried award recipient coordinators and ballot coordinators. On January 28 at 7:30 pm, the meeting will be discussing day of the event action items and post-production, which will include ticket check-in and name badge distribution, will-call check-in, ushers/seating assistance, program distribution and presenter assistants. The meeting will take place at the ASIFA Animation Center at 721 South Victory Blvd. For more information, visit www.annieawards.org.