Wild Brain’s Dave Marshall, co-director of FernGully 2, discusses how he tailored the pre-production process of FernGully 2 to guarantee the best final film for the budget.

Remembering and depicting the past...

Animation and its many changing faces...

Where there is a will, a way can sometimes be created...

It's getting to be time to pay attention...

Home Videos and Animation Art: keeping a memory alive...

Our coverage of the fifth annual festival in Rio Di Janiero, Brazil includes: a review by Edmundo Barrieros, "Anima Mundi In Brief," in both Portuguese and English, an essay, "On the Winning Film: Dada," by Lea Zagury and Aida Queiros which discusses Piet Kroon's Dada, and a Quicktime movie of the award-winning film.

Licensing and merchandising is playing to kids and teaching them that they can get what they want, in a big way.

Carlos Ramos Scrapbook

Keeping up to speed with today's ultra-new, ultra-cool technology is a daunting task. We asked four leaders in the field to answer, "What are the largest challenges you face everyday running a digital studio/facility?" Representatives from Rhythm & Hues, Fantôme, Neurones Animation and Pacific Data Images all replied. Time and time again the experts all agree that the continual push to upgrade to the newest technology and then integrate it back into the system proves to be the largest challenge. Oh, yes, and finding incredibly talented people and...

Aah, television, our old friend. What madness the power of a child with a remote control instills in us...

Friends and colleagues say goodbye to a pioneer of international television production.

Heather Kenyon introduces this issue with a focus on two hot topics in the comics world plus introduces two new features of the magazine.

June 1997's Dirdy Birdy by John Dilworth.

Greetings from AWN's new Editor-in-Chief.

Commercials Many years ago, when I was an undergraduate student, I volunteered to transcribe an oral history interview with Hans Richter, one of the pioneers of European avant garde cinema, whose career dated back to the 1920s. One of the comments that stuck with me all these years was about an offer he had to make an advertising film. As he considered himself first and foremost an artist, he refused. Later, after seeing the resulting film, he was so delighted that he changed his mind towards working on such films. Today, with the likes of Spike Lee making...

A Word on Music and Animation

March 1997's Dirdy Birdy by John Dilworth.

Heather Kenyon reports how Balbir Mathur and his organization, Trees for Life, with help from Frédérick Back, are using animation in to help people in the third world plant trees.

The Thief and the Cobbler: A Modest Proposal