ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 5.12 - MARCH 2001

Written and compiled by Rick DeMott.
Technology news written and compiled by Paul Younghusband.


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Awards | Business | Commercials | Events | Films
Internet & Interactive | People | Technology | Television | Video

Awards

  • Oscars Do Not Reject Father & Daughter & Periwig-Maker
  • BAFTA Nominates Chicken Run As Best British Film
  • Maya Wins Best Of Show At Macworld
  • Nick Announces Kid's Choice Noms

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Awards

Business

  • New F/X Studio Mr. X Launches
  • Gaming Firm Spawns F/X Studio In North Carolina
  • Kaydara Gains $5M In Venture Capital
  • Realviz Raises $9.39 Million
  • Animation Stock Ticker For Tuesday, February 6, 2001
  • iFilm Secures $10 Million
  • Sega Ends Dreamcast
  • DreamWorks Backs Out Of GameWorks
  • Animation Stock Ticker For Tuesday, January 30, 2001
  • Pukka Launches Pukka Post & Pukka Web
  • Animation Stock Ticker For Tuesday, January 23, 2000

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Business

Commercials

  • LocoMotion Animates Tropical Party With Vicon Motion-Capture
  • iXL Parodies The Matrix Effect For Comedy Central TV Funhouse Promo
  • ATTIK Launches Wrigley's Big Red Into 2001
  • R!OT Pulls Off Great Escape For Ford
  • Quiet Man Livens Up Regional Sport Spots For Fox
  • ViewPoint Blooms 3D Venus Spot For Gillette
  • PRoGRESS Speeds Up New Cisco Campaign

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Commercials

Events

  • Mainframe's Fraccia Speaks At The University of Washington
  • Mogra Festival Is The Online Festival Of After Effects Art

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Events

Films

  • Hannibal/Tiger Slash Records At US Box Office
  • Cast Away Floats In Third
  • Cast Away Sinks To Third
  • Adam Sandler's Meatball Animation Makes Feature
  • New Int BO Champ Castaways Competition

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Films

Internet and Interactive

  • This Week's Web Animation Guide For Friday, February 9, 2001
  • Infogrames Nails Men In Black, Peanuts' Rights
  • Brilliant Digital To Release Multipath Player For Mac
  • Interplay Nabs Matrix Gaming Rights
  • Distant Corners Gains Creature Feature Rights
  • This Week's Web Animation Guide For Friday, February 2, 2001
  • Spielberg & Howard Webtoons Debut On Monday, February 5
  • Australian Government Sets Out To Ban Political Web Game

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Internet%and%Interactive

People

  • Warner Home Video Shuffles Staff
  • Brilliant Digital Hires New CFO/COO
  • Ed Catmull Named Pixar President
  • Executive Producer Mandy Martin Enters ATTIK
  • Harvey's Mischel Takes Pres Post At Rumpus

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=People

Technology

  • Caligari Unleashes trueSpace5
  • Discreet Begins Shipping frost 2.5
  • Digimation Ships Phoenix 1.5
  • DPS AniMate Released For dspReality & dpsVelocity
  • Rainbow Studios Switches To 3DBOXX
  • DigiCel Releases FlipBook PT
  • eReview Producer Premieres At NAPTE
  • Discreet Ships 3ds max 4
  • ReelSmart Motion Blur Now Available For Shake, Avid & Discreet
  • SOFTIMAGE|XSI 1.5 Now Shipping

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Technology

Television

  • AtomFilms Brings Content To Pay-Per-View
  • U.S. Primetime TV Ratings For The Week Of January 15-21, 2001

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Television

Video

  • Mattel, Mainframe Bring Barbie To Nutcracker Feature

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Video