The Webisode Academy is presenting a chat with top recruiter Pamela Thompson. Thompson is an independent recruiter, career coach and management consultant. Her clients have included Macromedia, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Digital Domain, Simex Digital Studios, Click 3X, Big Idea Productions, and interactive companies such as Stan Lee Media, Lucas Learning, The Los Angeles Times, Raven Software, and Hollywood Online.

Read Pamela Thompson's monthly "Career Coach" articles, written exclusively for AWN's Student Corner at http://www2.awn.com/studentcorner/resourcelist.php3!

Women in Animation will be holding its Annual Meeting. The meeting will take place from 2 - 3 pm, followed by a networking event and a special Short Attention Span Film Festival screening at 3:30 - 5 pm. Snacks and drinks will be provided. This will also be the last opportunity members have to vote in WIA's elections for the new International Board of Directors. The event will be held at Klasky Csupo at 6353 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. The meeting is free, but the screening is US$5 for members, $10 for non-members. RSVP is necessary to (818) 759 9596 by February 15, 2001.

The Second Annual Interactive TV Games Conference follows the new trends in the booming new sector of interactive TV games. The events will look at the new games formats, delivering new and existing games channels, synchronizing live enhanced TV game shows, developing and improving advanced interactive gaming resources such as WAP and the possibilities provided by advanced interactive technologies. The conference is a good opportunity for professionals in the new media field to discuss and conduct business in the growing interactive TV market.

Interactive TV & Mobile Games Conference is set up to look at the potential of games on interactive TV and digital TV. In addition, the event will address how advertisers will capitalize on this new market.

The Webisode Academy is holding a voice and sound capture workshop. Attendees will go to an actual sound studio and record their voices. A discussion will follow about the uses of voice capture on the Web.

The University of Washington is presenting a lecture by Isaac Kerlow, director of digital production for new technology and new media at Disney Animation Studios. Kerlow will discuss the convergence of classical and digital animation at Disney. The event will be held in Room 108, in the Student Union Building on the UW campus at 4:30 pm. The lecture is sponsored by the Animation Research Labs and the Department of Computer Science & Engineering.

Glenn Vilppu will be teaching drawing classes at Ringling School of Art and Design. He will address the topics "drawing animals" and "head drawing, expession and drapery." Vilppu is a distinguished teacher of illustration who has taught classes around the world.

For those who are not fortunate enough to be attending Vilppu classes, his material is available in the Animation World Store. You can buy his Vilppu Drawing Manuals and Sketch Books, as well as 25 videotapes of his classes, which cover topics such as anatomy and animal drawing lectures, demonstrations, exercises and specialized subjects.

Read Vilppu's "how to" instructional series, published exclusively in Animation World Magazine every other month. Use Animation World Magazine's Archives to find all the Vilppu articles published to date (use keyword: Vilppu). With multiple search capabilities, the Archives give you a customized way to look through the 57 issues published to date - by Issue, Date, Category, Title or Author.

The 2nd Annual Onscreen For Kids And Teens is a leading international event for professionals involved in developing programming for kids and teens. This two-day event will give visitors the opportunity to interact with leaders in youth entertainment from the television, film and new media industries. Topics addressed at the event will be managing rights, funding options for independents, contract pitfalls, developing and writing for youth, directing animation, anatomy of a publishing deal, negotiating a licensing contract and business strategies for small production companies.

Cal Arts is presenting a project called "The One Second Film," a deconstruction of animation as an art form. "The One Second Film" explores the idea of "perfect moments" in animation and magnifies the amount of labor that is put into these moments. The film is to be one second long (not counting titles and credits). The 24 frames will be reduced to 12, to be shot in 2s. Each frame will have its own director and its own crew. People attending the event will be invited to contribute a brushstroke to the various frames. The frames will be painted on 9ft x 5ft stretched canvases that will be rotoscoped. Color design for the individual frames will be chosen by Jules Engel, Cal Arts' founding director of the experimental animation program.

Read Animation World Magazine's "Jules Engel: The Mentor" to learn more about the tricky business of teaching experimental animation.

The University of Washington is presenting a lecture by David Fraccia, senior software developer at Mainframe Entertainment. Fraccia is also an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia. He will discuss many anecdotes from working at Mainframe such as, "So you want 50,000 long-haired ape people wearing togas to charge up out of the water?" The event will be held in Room 108, in the Student Union Building on the UW campus at 4:30 pm. The lecture is sponsored by the Animation Research Labs and the Department of Computer Science & Engineering.