Each week, Animation World Magazine offers new articles, special features and theme-based coverage of the art, craft and industry of animation. New this week:

- Vampire Hunter D Comes to America

Fred Patten takes us inside the latest super-cool anime feature, VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST, now being shown in select U.S. theatres.

- The SIGGRAPH 2001 Computer Animation Festival: A Digital Odyssey

John Edgar Park discusses the best films of Siggraph's Electronic Theater. Includes QuickTime movie clips!

- TV Review: X-Chromosome

Jerry Beck reviews Oxygen's flagship show, X-CHROMOSOME, and finds it is funny, entertaining and real...even if you aren't a woman.

- Producing Animation: Storyboarding

This month, Catherine Winder and Zahra Dowlatabadi delve into the crucial pre-production step of storyboarding. This is the last step to economically keeping a film on track and shouldn't be taken lightly!