ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 4.10 - JANUARY 2000

2000 And Beyond: A Host of Possibilities and Changes
(Continued from page 2)

Chris Robinson.
Chris Robinson, Executive Director, Ottawa International Animation Festival and the International Student Animation Festival of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Bad Beckett Response To Issues Of Industry: An Xmas Serenade

To: Mass media execs.
a quick and painless way.
of removing fuggin heads from fuggin asses.
once the tools can be found to perform.
these poor beings will see light and colour.
senses deadened by hibernetic envelopment.
will spring to life.
embrace.
once brown and occasionally black -- even blue or green after cocktail hour --
a terrain of options.
to be negotiated.
explored.
embraced.
importantly consider.
To find Beatrice.
lost ones must embrace.
the bowels of myopic ignorance.
facing their fears.
begin to see a world.

To: Consumers.
the peasant must rise from their crapulent (means drunkenness, but it's fit my needs better) existence.
Too deeply immersed.
not in the bowels.
in the eyes.
not their eyes.
aural now visual boxes dictate
their needs.
limited view.
closed many doors.
slow hypnotism.
need a century of undoing
to liberate the Peasants from
The lost Ones.

To: 'Educators' (hahahahaha...that's a good one).
labourers or artists?
make up your damn mind.
Don't be what ya ain't.
I want the whole
Not the parts.

To: Onliners.
internet grows.
a source of hope for independents.
no middlemen says Corky.
Bullfunk I say.
Same suits dominating the computer.
I gander down one list of atomation films and see mostly spike rejects
yikes.
Should be the next big thing
Will be the same old thing.

Another heavenly day...

Samuel Beckett, Paris, December 1989
(This rare Beckett artifact which seemed to address his concerns about the cartoon entertainment industry was discovered in the late 20th century in the vaults of the Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa, Canada. Apparently, Beckett was scripting an animation film based on the life of Buster Keaton to be directed by the great German animator, Raimund Krumme.)


Jeff Lotman, CEO, Vivid Animation & Global Icons, Los Angeles, California, USA

"The greatest challenge in the animation business is the unbelievable opportunities in the world of CG animation. We are just scratching the surface at this moment so the challenge is to one-up the next person continually in terms of style and look while always having the story be paramount.

"What will have to change for CG animation to have the impact it really can have is to make the process a lot faster. One of the reasons that major studios are reluctant to produce animated features, either CG or 2D, is the time involved, and the cash required.

"We, as an industry, have to continue to push new technologies that will speed the process to make films in the same time frames as our live-action counterparts. All of this is being fueled by the success of Toy Story 2 and complete acceptance of the CG medium by the mass audience."


Gail Currey, Chief Operating Officer, Industrial Light & Magic, San Rafael, California, USA

Gail Currey.

"The biggest challenge in the coming year for animation at ILM is learning how to optimize the skills and tools that our talented animators have acquired by working on not only our animated projects but also on traditional effects movies. Our past recruiting efforts have paid off and we now have a core group of animators who are at the top of their form. The challenge is bringing in projects that continue to hone their skills and thankfully, ILM's clients are always pushing us in ways that give the animators new opportunities to refine and show off their talent. We want to provide an improved technology base that gives animators more time to be animating while removing worries like file management from their daily routine. ILM vies for brilliant technological minds with other industries, which provides us with a recruiting challenge. Lastly, growing the supervisory skills of our animators is an area in which we are concentrating by developing training programs that will enhance their abilities to communicate animation direction. It looks like it's going to be a great year for animation, and ILM has several exciting animated projects pending, so we know these challenges will be worth all the effort we expect to exert in meeting them."
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