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NATPE News: The Big Market In
The Big Easy.
Business: Quebec Animation
Makes Quite A Team, A Split Decision For Net MTV, Macromedia Gains
The Net's Andromedia, Nelvana Goes Public With $40M Deal, LoConte
Upgrades To LoConte.2, Holland's ComicHouse Moves Into The Wild,
AOL & Time Warner Merge Into New Media Giant, Disney Delivers
Strategy 2000, Mill Film & Magic Camera Morph Into One, Santiago
Studios In Search Of U.S. Co-Prod, Disney's Imagine Finds New Home
At Fox, Disney Channel With A Latin Touch, Outlook 2000 For Acclaim,
New Visual To Impact The Web.
People: Charles Schulz Retires,
Disney's Former Internet Exec Convicted, Ex-Go.Com Exec Freed From
Jail, Disney's Chairman Roth Resigns, Lacroix Fades From Fantome.
Musical Chairs: John Cooke Named The J. Paul Getty Trust's VP, Seven
Animation Names Jo Noble Producer, Crawford Communications Promotes
Bill Thompson, Andrea-Manuela Seibert Named VP European Sales At
Rive Gauche International TV, DECODE Entertainment Names Dominique
Bazay And Caroline Dorris VPs, Attik Appoints Paul Driver As Design
Director, Craig M. Johns Named To Interface Media Group's Client
Services Department, Blue Sky Studios Promotes Linda Zazza, Black
Logic Hires 3D Animator Mark Voelpel, Toonz Animation India Names
Tom Tilbury To Exec Staff, Bruce Gionet Becomes Black Logic's CGI
Supervisor, Quickband Networks Signs Kim Adelman, Jesse Reisner
Promoted To Editor At Editing Concepts, CYBERWORLD International
Corporation Gains Paul Lypaczewski As New Senior VP, Jude Brennan
Joins Oxygen Media, 3D Animator Andrew Sinagra Added Radium Roster,
MeTV.Com Nets Veteran Film-Buyer John Reweda, Bernard Stolar Named
President Of Mattel Interactive, Olive Jar Studios Opens Their Doors
To A New Exec Mark Rhodes, Infogrames North America Inc. Adds Derek
Quackenbush And Ron Rudolph To Senior Management Team, Acclaim Entertainment
Inc. Appoints Jay Andronaco As Manager Of Public Relations And Bradford
W. Loucks As VP Of Sales, Mill Film Promotes Laurent Hugueniot And
David Lomax Heads Of Mill Film 3D, Film Roman Inc. Gains Leonard
J. Grossi To Their Board Of Directors And Promotes Sidney Clifton
To Director Of Television Development, Claire Robinson New VP Intellectual
Property Law For The Walt Disney Co., Arnold Rifkin Joins MediaTrip.Com's
Board Of Directors, Rainbow Studios Adds David Stipes To Management
Staff, SyCoNet.Com, Inc. Makes Anneliese Chang New Director Of Marketing,
Rebecca Poole New VP Production At Animanagement, Cartoon Network
Turns Timothy Hall Into Their New Exec VP.
In Passing: In Memory Of Darris
Dobbs, MAD Mag's Martin Dies, Disney's Legendary Marc Davis
Dies.
Films: AWN Animated Box Office
Report, Fantasia Already Filling Theaters, Mononoke
Follow-Up, DreamWorks Brings Nathan Never To Screen.
Television: Pokemon:
Europe Won't Be The Same, Scandinavia Surrenders To Pokemania. TV
Tidbits: Angela Anaconda Marathon, PBS Kids, Daria
Telefilm, Cecil And Her Very Own Universe And Swamp Dog, Muppet
Time, The Wild Thornberrys Tour, Hugo Jungle, Maggie And
The Ferocious Beast, Men In Black: The Series, Atari Creator
On ZDTV, Iron Giant On Cartoon Network And TNT, PBS's Nature,
Teddybears, Improv-Ice Debuts Rocket For FXDeko Graphics, South
African Sesame Street, Futurama, Clifford The Big Red Dog, Hey
Monie, Joe Psycho & Moofrog Cartoonshow.
Commercials: Seeing Spots:
Ring Of Fire Provides FX For Ericsson; TOPIX/Mad Dog, Chuck Gammage
Animation, And Generator Film Produces Spot For Campbell's Soup;
Kellogg's Froot Loops Comes To Life With Help From Simex Studios;
TOPIX/Mad Dog Provide CG Images For Sears; Spontaneous Combustion
Produces Animation For Millstone Coffee; iXL Digital Video Group
Produces Openings 20/20; Eyeball Creates ID Tags For USA Network;
Renegade Animation Creates Trix Yogurt Spot; yU + Co Provide Motion
Graphics Design For American Express "Blue" Commercials;
Digital Domain Helps Plum Productions Create Fiat Punto Spots; Radium
Produces Mervyn's California Commercials; V12 Births Blue Cross/Blue
Shield Commercial; Red Rover Molds Molson Export Spot; Class-Key
Chew-Po Produces Spots For Hasbro And Tiger Electronics; Curious
Pictures And Tomato Create RCA Spot.
Internet & Interactive: Brazil
Bans Violent Video Games, Muppets Move To AcmeCity. Cyber Bytes:
Muppetworld, Shockwave.Com's Holiday Additions, Viz Comm. Relaunches
Anime Sites, MeTV.Com And Sonalysts Studios, Why2K@Large, Entertaindom's
Superman, Xena: Warrior Princess and KISS Immortals, Film.Com's
Crapston Villas. Interactivity: Vigilante 8: Second Offense,
Quake III Arena, South Park Rally, Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 2: Buzz
Lightyear To The Rescue, Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat From
Your Head To Your Feet.
Home Video: Babar
Breaks Directly To Video, Batman Descends On DVD & Video,
Phantom Menace's Worldwide Release.
Location-Based Entertainment:
Euro-Disney May Not Party Like It's 1999, Black Logic Kicks
With The Rockettes, Looney Toons Fly In The New Year.
Licensing: Cartoon Net's
Mag Masters Poland.
Technology: Metacreations
Makes 'Creative' Changes, TGS Announces Amapi 3D V.5, 3D Studio
Max 3.1 Now Shipping, Final Cut Pro 1.2 Quite A Bundle, Boris FX
Launches Boris Red, Newtek Introduces Lightwave [6] For Mac, Empowering
The People With Puppettime, ALIAS|Wavefront To Develop Maya For
Intel's IA-64 Processor.
Education: ORAD Arrives
At Seneca.
Awards: Grammy's Toon Tunes.
Events: Ongoing
Events: Folimage Screening, Rotterdam International Film Festival,
22nd International Short Film Festival of San Roque. Upcoming
Events: Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival,
29th Mobius Advertising Awards, Cartoon Noir in LA.
Last Month in Animation: Charles
M. Schulz Exhibit, "The Art of Disney Storybooks" Exhibit,
"Animation Dreams: Millennium Nightmares" Exhibit, Women
in Animation Writers' Group, Moondance International Film Festival,
Canadian Drawn Screening, TAIS presents "Creating Appealing
Cartoon Characters" with Peter Emslie, Art in Motion Exhibit.
Upcoming Major Industry Events:
Imagina 2000, Milia, MIP TV, Annecy International Film Festival
and Market, SIGGRAPH 2000.
