This Month's Contributors
Jerry Beck
is a cartoon historian, writer and animation studio executive. He was editor
of The 50 Greatest Cartoons (Turner), recently co-wrote Warner
Bros. Animation Art (Levin) and is currently a freelance writer and
consultant through his own company, Cartoon Research Co.
Robert Gonzales is director of Technology & Operations at Warner
Bros. Online.
Michelle Klein-Häss is a San Fernando Valley-based writer,
photographer and webkeeper. Her flagship web site is Animation Nerd's Paradise,
one of the Animation World Network family of animation sites. ANP can be
visited at http://anp.awn.com/.
Ilene Hoffman is a freelance writer who served as director of development
for Turner Feature Animation and as manager of development for Hanna-Barbera
Cartoons. She is currently pursuing her Masters Degree in English Literature.
Wendy Jackson is associate editor of Animation World Magazine.
Heather Kenyon is editor in chief of Animation World Magazine.
Kit Laybourne is behind one of the sweetest shows on TV (Gullah
Gullah Island) for Nickelodeon and the most twisted (Liquid Television)
for MTV. He is currently executive producer of Hank The Cowdog,
an animated feature film and television series being developed by Nickelodeon.
During the 1995-96 academic year, he taught the Advanced Animation Seminar
at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He also authored one of the standard
texts on animation, The Animation Book, with a new edition covering
digital animation to be published by Crown in September 1998.
Patrick Loughney, Ph.D. is head of the Moving Image Section of the
Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division of The Library
of Congress.
Michel Ocelot is president of the International Animated Film Association
(ASIFA).
Barry Purves is a Manchester-based filmmaker. Through his production
company, Bare Boards Productions, he has directed several stop-motion animated
films and commercials, including Next, Screen Play, Rigoletto
and Achilles.
Kellie-Bea Rainey is in the animation and SPFX industry and has
produced both traditional animation and computer animation. Kellie-Bea
has worked for Pacific Title Digital, National SIGGRAPH `95, The Baer Animation
Company, and most recently, Jim Henson Interactive. Kellie-Bea is currently
the owner and president of her new studio and school, The Better Mouse
Trap.
Chris Robinson is executive director of the Ottawa International
Animation Festival and the founder and director of SAFO, the International
Student Animation Festival of Ottawa. In his spare time, Robinson is vice
president of ASIFA-Canada, and managing editor of FPS Animation Magazine.
Robinson has curated film programs (AnimExpo, Images Festival, and Olympia
Film Festival), served on juries (AnimExpo, World Animation Celebration),
and written articles on animation for Animation World Magazine,
FPS, and Take One.
Glenn Vilppu teaches figure drawing at the American Animation Institute,
the Masters program of the UCLA Animation Dept., Walt Disney Feature Animation
and Warner Bros. Feature Animation, and is being sent to teach artists
at Disney TV studios in Japan, Canada and the Philippines. Vilppu has also
worked in the animation industry for 18 years as a layout, storyboard and
presentation artist. His drawing manual and video tapes are being used
worldwide as course materials for animation students.
Note: Readers may contact any Animation World Magazine contributor by sending an e-mail to editor@awn.com.
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