Animation World Magazine, Issue 3.2, May 1998


This Month's Contributors

Note: Readers may contact any Animation World Magazine contributor by sending an e-mail to editor@awn.com.

Nag Ansorge is a prestigious, ground breaking live-action and animation filmmaker from Switzerland.

Brian Camp is Program Manager at CUNY-TV, the City University of New York cable TV station. He has written about Japanese animation for Outre Magazine and The Motion Picture Guide and has also written for Film Comment, Film Library Quarterly, Sightlines, The New York Daily News and Asian Cult Cinema.

Melissa Chimovitz is a freelance writer with a predilection towards run-on-sentences. Armed with a degree in photography from Rhode Island School of Design, a portfolio of handmade puppets, a short animated film (Eat'm Up: A Very Short Film About Love [1997]), and a determination to become a great animator, she will enter Cal Arts' Masters Program for Experimental Animation in September 1998. In the meantime, she lives happily in Brooklyn, New York, where she is participating in Janie Geiser's soon-to-be-named puppetry lab and working on a new film.

John R. Dilworth is a New York-based animator whose award-winning films have been seen all over the world. Since his return from Zagreb, John has vowed to converse only in Croatian, so please keep this in mind when contacting him.

Julien Dubois is a journalist who lives in Paris, France. For 10 years, he has been exploring the wings of this gigantic dream industry, the television industry.

Bill Fleming is president of Komodo Studio, a 3-D studio specializing in photorealism. He is the author of many 3-D books, including the 3D Photorealism Toolkit, published by John Wiley & Sons. He also serves as editor in chief of Serious 3D magazine, a 3-D magazine featuring nothing but intermediate/advanced tutorials for artists interested in taking their 3-D graphics to the next level. To find out more about Serious 3D, visit www.serious3d.com.

Wendy Jackson is associate editor of Animation World Magazine.

Heather Kenyon is editor in chief of Animation World Magazine.

Georges Lacroix is President and Founder of Fantôme.

Gregory Lukow
is director of the American Film Institute's National Center for Film and Video Preservation. He has served as AMIA's founding secretary and member of its Board of Directors since 1991.

Marcos Magalhães is an animation filmmaker and teacher, and also one of the directors of Anima Mundi International Festival in Brazil.

William Moritz teaches film and animation history at the California Institute of the Arts.

Marian Rudnyk is a former NASA astronomer and planetary photogeologist who worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He was part of NASA's PCAS (Planet Crossing Asteroid Survey) Program where he was an asteroid hunter. He also participated as a member of NASA's Achievement Award winning multi-mission imaging team on the Voyager at Neptune mission, as well Magellan at Venus and many others. Making a transition into the animation industry, he began as a traditional animator freelancing on such projects as a Levis commercial for Acme Filmworks. He currently works as a digital artist, science consultant and freelance writer. He has written for the World Book Encyclopedia and David Wallechinski's People's Almanac of the 20th Century. His current film credits include Titanic, Home Alone 3, and Armageddon.

Buzz Potamkin is an award-winning independent producer, best known for The Berenstain Bears and Dr. Seuss. Before he escaped L.A. for New York, he had been president of Southern Star Prods and then executive vice president of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons.

Mark Segall has won awards for labor journalism and public service copywriting. He co-authored How To Make Love To Your Money (Delacorte,1982) with his wife, Margaret Tobin. He is also editor of ASIFA-East's aNYmator newsletter.

Annick Teninge is general manager of Animation World Network.

Note: Readers may contact any Animation World Magazine contributor by sending an e-mail to editor@awn.com.


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