Call for Entries
VRML Contest.
The VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) Consortium, a non-profit organization,
is sponsoring a VRML contest in collaboration with 3-D Design Magazine.
Designed to showcase creative use of VRML to bring interactive 3-D graphics
to the Web, the contest will be divided into 5 major categories: Best Business
content, Most Artistic content, Most Innovative content, Best Architecture
and Best Visualization. The entry deadline is January 16, 1998. 3D Design
will provide judges for the contest and winners will be announced at the
VRML `98 conference in Monterey, CA (February 16-19, 1998). Prizes include
software and hardware donated by VRML Consortium member companies. For
entry forms and rules, and to download free VRML authoring tools, visit
http://www.vrml.org
International Broadcasting Awards. The Hollywood Radio and Television
Society is soliciting entries for its 38th Annual International Broadcasting
Awards. One out of 17 television categories is specifically for animation,
but categories such as "Broadcast/Cable Entertainment Promotion,"
"Commercial Series," and "Humorous" are open to all
television media. The entry deadline is January 16, 1998, and entry fees
range from U.S. $150 to $300 per entry. Call (818) 789-1182 for entry forms
and information.
New Kids Fest In Toronto. The Toronto International Film Festival
Group is launching Sprockets: Toronto International Film Festival for Children,
a new venue to showcase live-action and animated film fare for kids, in
a festival setting, to family audiences. Rather than the traditional competition
format, Sprockets is being programmed by a curator/festival director, Jane
Schoettle, former director of the Milk and ZOOM! International Children's
Festivals. The 6-day event will take place in Toronto during the third
week of April (exact dates and location TBD). Schoettle said that she is
still looking for quality animated films to include in the program, particularly
international films from outside of North America. Entries, which can include
shorts, TV episodes or features which have not been broadcast or theatrically
released in Canada before April 18, are being accepted until January 9.
VHS videocassettes should be sent to:
Sprockets c/o Cinematheque Ontario
2 Carlton Street, Toronto, ON Canada M5B 1J3
Email, for further information: sprocket@torfilmfest.ca
Singapore Animation Fiesta. The second annual Animation Fiesta,
organized by Temasek Polytechnic, will take place during the Singapore
Festival for the Arts, June 19-21, 1998. This small festival welcomes submissions
of animation, video and multimedia works, but is not a competitive event.
The entry deadline for all submissions is December 31, 1997. For information,
contact btea@tp.ac.sg
For more information on festival organizers Temasek Polytechnic and animation
in Singapore, see Gigi Hu's article, "Animation in Singapore,"
in the February 1998 issue of Animation World Magazine.
http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.11/articles/hu1.11.html
Computer Animation Conference. The Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and the IEEE Computer
Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has put out a call for papers and
films to be presented at the 11th annual Conference on Computer Animation
at the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation (HMS) at the University
of Pennsylvania, June 8-10, 1998. Academic papers on the following topics
of research are being sought: motion control; animation for scientific
visualization; keyframe techniques; animation in engineering; motion capture;
motion blur and temporal antialiasing; robotics and animation; physics
and animation; virtual humans and avatars; behavioral animation; virtual
collaborative environments (VCE); real-time simulation; virtual reality;
medical applications; sound and speech synchronization; and physics-based
animation. The submission deadline for unpublished papers (up to 20 pages)
is February 3, 1998, and authors will be notified by March 15. For detailed
submission and conference information, contact the University of Pennsylvania's
Department of Computer and Information Science at dnm@central.cis.upenn.edu
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