Animation World Magazine, Issue 2.7, October 1997


editor@awn.com

What About Us?
We are a top Australian production house who enjoys receiving your newsletter but find the info on deadlines for festivals and competitions are always too soon for us to be able to submit work. Please take us into consideration when passing on such info where and when you have control of such things.

Also, we would like to see some more global information. You are called Animation World after all! For example, we have the world's only Minister for Multimedia! Melbourne, Victoria is one of the world's fastest growing multimedia capitals. Also, the use of computers per household is very high here.

We're also interested in what's going on in the rest of the world. Do you have any discussion groups or such?

Joanne Wellington
Production Manager
Tantamount Productions
http://www.tantamount.com.au



Dear Joanne:

Thank you for writing! This letter touches on a number of subjects that are important to us here at Animation World Network.

First, the festivals....we make available festival information as quickly as possible. As soon as we obtain information from the festivals whose sites we host, the information is posted. The festivals that we mention in the Animation Flash are also mentioned as soon as we obtain the press release. We have received a number of letters like yours encouraging longer leads on festival deadlines. We are read by a number of prominent festival directors, so keep your fingers crossed and hope they are reading this right now! We do provide the Calendar of Events (www.awn.com/awneng/village/calendar.html) as well which can be used as a reference.

We are striving to represent a world wide view of the industry. Australia is just one of the regions that we know we need to represent more. Even before we received you letter, we had just placed a number of calls to Australian companies and agencies to try to obtain news and spread the fact that we want and need involvement. We love to hear about animation companies all over the world and encourage people to drop us a line if we are missing something big. I have a sneaking suspicion your Australian Minister might end up in our December Gaming issue and I can't wait! I had no idea Australia had a Minister of Multimedia. We just need to be told. A great idea is to pass the Weekly Animation Flash Email Newsletter (you can have them register for the Flash at www/awn.com/register.html) onto someone that you know. The more people that are familiar with the Flash, our Magazine and site - the more input we will have to hopefully serve you all better.

Also, we do look continually at how many people from certain countries are monitoring our site and in what they are interested. By analyzing this information we hope to serve you, our reader, better. Australia is always in the top ten hit producing countries week after week and therefore, we need to start paying more attention to you. At the same time, South American countries are not represented in our top ten but this could be because we provide hardly any coverage for them. We hope to boost this region's news and coverage on our site as well.

Do we have discussion groups? Yes! We are finding that a number of people obtain the Weekly Animation Flash Email Newsletter but seem to have forgotten our main site. The Animation Flash is just the tip of the AWN iceberg. At www.awn.com you will find, among other features, chats and discussion forums, an online animation art exhibit called The Gallery, Career Connections, The Vault, a database of films and filmmakers, The Marketplace and the Animation Village which hosts a number of other animation related webs sites. We have a lot to offer and it will only continue to get better as Animation World Network lives up to its promise of being the global meeting place for animation enthusiasts. We want the site to be a place where people can meet from all over the world and exchange ideas and information. So please folks, we can't tell you enough, drop us a line, let us know what you like and what you hate because we are listening and we are hearing loud and clear.

Thank you again for writing Joanne. It provided quite the soapbox! And yes, you will see more Australian coverage, we promise.

Sincerely,
The Editors


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