This Month's Contributors

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Rick DeMott is the associate editor of Animation World Network. Previously, he served as media coordinator for Hollywood-based Acme Filmworks. He holds a B.A. in Film/Video from Penn State University with a Minor in Comparative Literature.

Piotr Dumala is a Polish director, animator, screenwriter who has produced several award-winning films, including Gentle Spirit (Lagodna), Walls (Sciany), Franz Kafka and Crime and Punishment. Recently he has animated dozens of episodes of Nervous Life, a series for television, and teaches animation at the Film School of Lodz in Warsaw. Dumala is also a writer of short stories and essays, a poster designer (he won the prize for best poster at the Annecy Festival in 1993) and an illustrator of books and journals. He is also a guest professor at the Komstfack Animation House in Eksjö , Sweden, and the Film School in Lodz, Poland.

Maureen Furniss, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor and Program Director of Film Studies at Chapman University in Orange, California. She is the founding editor of Animation Journal and the author of Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics (John Libbey, 1998).

Ilene Renee Gannaway is a freelance writer who served as Director of Development for Turner Feature Animation and as Manager of Development, Motion Pictures for Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. She is currently pursuing her Master's Degree in English Literature and after graduation will, like many animation folks, be in need of a job.

Martin "Dr. Toon" Goodman is a longtime student and fan of animation. He lives in Anderson, Indiana.

Michael Hurwicz believes in fairy tales, cartoons, music, trees and chocolate.

Heather Kenyon is editor-in-chief of Animation World Network. After receiving her B.F.A. with honors in Filmic Writing from USC's School of Cinema-Television, she went to work for Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. Currently, she is an International Board Member of Women In Animation and on the Board of Trustees of Trees for Life.

Joan Kim received her B.A. in English Literature from UCLA and currently is the editorial administrator for Animation World Network. Previously as a graphics consultant she produced several company reports and manuals and continues to pursue an education in computer graphics.

Jacquie Kubin, a Washington, DC-based freelance journalist, enjoys writing about the electronic entertainment and edutainment mediums, including the Internet. She is a frequent contributor to the Washington Times and Krause Publication magazines. She has won the 1998 Certificate of Award granted by the Metropolitan Area Mass Media Committee of the American Association of University Women.

Eric Oldrin is the senior producer of series and show content for Shockwave. Since joining Shockwave, Oldrin has produced and developed some of its key content, including Tim Burton's World of Stainboy. Prior to joining Shockwave, Oldrin helped build Mondo Media's online animation studio and produced The God and Devil Show, Thugs on Film and Like, News. Before that, he created games at America Online's WorldPlay Entertainment and Sierra Online's Imagination Network. Eric holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Pomona College.

Fred Patten has written on anime for fan and professional magazines since the late 1970s.

Chris Robinson is a writer, festival director, programmer, junky and doesn't give a shit about you. His hobbies include horseback riding, pudpulling, canoeing and goat thumping.

Joshua Seth is a voice over actor with the Arlene Thornton Agency in Los Angeles. He trained at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he holds a BFA with honors in Film as well as Philosophy. He can be heard as "Tai," the starring role in 20^th Century Fox's animated feature film Digimon the Movie. Arlene Thornton & Associates: 818-760-6688.

Gregory Singer is an independent animation producer living in a small hut on the edge of the known visible universe. No animals were harmed or consumed in the writing of his article.

Paul Younghusband is editor-in-chief of Visual Magic Magazine, a publication focusing on the 3D graphics and digital effects industries.