Millimages, a France-based animation production house, has opened a new Internet production division. The Flash produced products will be targeting a teen and adult audience. The company will create a minimum of fifty 20 second to 2 minute episodes per season. The animation firm with locations in London and Paris hopes to create content that converges television and the Web. Millimages is currently working on the development of 12 original Net series, some of which are co-productions with companies such as Magma Films (Ireland) and Happylife (Sweden).

* Friday, May 19 - Sunday, October 1, 2000. Burbank, California, U.S.A.

The Animation Academy, an in-house trade school owned by Animatrix

Productions, is looking for a 2D ANIMATION INSTRUCTOR teaching basic

animation, storyboards, character creation and layout/design. . . San

Francisco and New York City-based One Infinity Inc., a streaming

media development company, is looking for a 2D BACKGROUND

ILLUSTRATOR, a 2D FLASH ANIMATOR and a 2D FLASH LIP-SYNCHER for an

animated Flash hip-hop music video. . . West Los Angeles,

TAIS member Cathy Schmidt will be giving a demonstration of Flash

Animation on Thursday, May 25, 2000 at 7:30 p.m. at the InterAccess

Electronic Media Arts Centre, in Toronto, Canada. Admission is free

for TAIS members, everyone else CA$10.00. Seating is limited and

participants must register by sending an e-mail to Cathy at

nomads@accessv.com. TAIS also presents "Timing For Animation" with

Greg Duffell. The event will take place on June 7, 2000 at 8:00 p.m

Anima Mundi Web is Brazil's international animation Web competition.

The event is open to all countries and work must be in Flash and gif

formats. The festival will pre-select 20 animations and an

international jury will vote for the winners. The international jury

will consist of the people that have registered on the Anima Mundi

Festival Web site. The deadline for entries is June 1, 2000. The

winners will be announced on the closing night of the Anima Mundi

Mondo Media's weekly Web toon, THUGS ON FILM, will hit BBC America's summer primetime line up. Mondo, a leader in Web content production, also announced that bbcamerica.com will air THUGS ON FILM which will include a co-branded show introduction and a special launch page on the bbcamerica.com Web site. The pact also includes a Mondo/BBC America co-production, which will create two brand new animated characters exclusively for BBC America and bbcamerica.com. THUGS ON FILM is a film review show hosted by Cecil and Stubby, two English hoods.

Wild Brain, Inc. announced that the animation studio is producing a slate of original Web shows for the Cartoon Network On-line. The 15 Webtoons will air on both of the companies' Internet channels. The two companies have worked together before, most recently on EL KABONG, a Cartoon Network retro TV short featuring the famous 1960s cartoon character, Quick Draw McGraw. Reflecting Cartoon Network's wide array of animated genres, Wild Brain's 15 new creations will vary in terms of art-direction, character design and overall tone.

Anima Mundi Web is Brazil's international animation Web competition. The event is open to all countries and work must be in Flash and gif formats. The festival will pre-select 20 animations and an international jury will vote for the winners. The international jury will consist of the people that have registered on the Anima Mundi Festival Web site. The winners will be announced on the closing night of the Anima Mundi Festival in Rio de Janeiro on July 23. The deadline for entries is June 1, 2000. For judging go to www.animamundiweb.com.br.

Creative Planet's AWN is recruiting! We are looking for an EDITOR for the AWN ANIMATION RESOURCE GUIDE and an AFFILIATE PROGRAM MANAGER to help us grow our Affiliate Program.

Los Angeles, California-based Unbound Studios, an Internet animation and gaming company, is looking for 2D/FLASH ANIMATORS, an ANIMATION DIRECTOR and TRADITIONAL ANIMATORS. . . Sherman Oaks, California-based Animation Creations, an Animation Workshop, is looking for an ANIMATION INSTRUCTOR/ASSISTANT. . . Toronto, Canada-based Nelvana is looking for traditional ANIMATORS for a new series animated in Flash, as well as a DIRECTOR and STORYBOARD ARTISTS. . .

* Saturday, July 1, 2000. Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

The two guys behind Nova Scotia-based RDAStudio's TALES OF IRTH have signed a deal to produce the Flash animated series for DreamWorks and Imagine Entertainment's new Web venture POP.com. About a year ago, Robert Leth, 47, and Frank Forrestall, 27, started working together to bring Forrestall’s fantasy TALES OF IRTH to the Web. POP.com has been actively searching the Net for intelligent and forward thinking Webisodes to bring to POP.com. Jamie Tosi, head of Flash animation at POP.com said to AWN, "TALES OF IRTH is very sophisticated, but with a subtle humor.

Seattle, Washington-based Jet City Studios, a children's Internet

production studio, is looking for 2D ANIMATORS. Flash and Shockwave

experience a plus. . . Hollywood, California-based REZN8 is looking

for 3D ANIMATORS for modeling, texturing, animating and compositing.

. . West Hollywood, California-based Ring of Fire Studios is looking

for a 3D DEPARTMENT HEAD/CGI ANIMATOR. . . Pixel Envy, Inc., a

leading producer of visual effects for film and video, is seeking a

San Francisco, California-based Mondo Media, a leading online animation and syndication company, is looking for 2D TRADITIONAL CHARACTER ANIMATORs, ANIMATION DIRECTORs, CHARACTER DESIGNERs/ILLUSTRATORs and STORYBOARD ARTISTs to work on original Web-based animated shows. . . Imaginary Forces, a conceptual design/production company based in Hollywood, California, is looking for 2D/3D ANIMATORs. . .Manhattan's So!much[design] is looking for a 3D ANIMATOR. .

Stan Lee Media, Inc. (SLM) announced a strategic alliance with Canadian-based Toon Boom Technologies for the development of Web-based animation software, which SLM will utilize in constructing its episodic Web comics. Jamie Wilkinson, executive vice president, Internet strategy for SLM, will oversee Beta testing in late summer/early fall 2000, to take place in Montreal and at a number of animation houses throughout the world. Pentafour Software & Exports Ltd., a leading developer of 2D/3D graphics and animation, special effects and software, will also participate in the project.

MIP TV (April 8-14, 2000) is one of the premiere television

conferences and markets in the world. The six-day event brings

together production companies and distributors from all over the

globe. The conference includes a vast array of panels and round-table

discussions with some of the world's top professionals. In 1999, MIP

TV attracted 10,439 professionals from 2,565 companies from 94

countries, of which 1,170 were exhibiting companies from 50 different

Stardust Entertainment Filmproduktion, a computer animation and visual effects studio located in Berlin-Potsdam, Germany, is looking to recruit a number of people to work on this and other upcoming productions this year. The company language is English.

On the occasion of the upcoming MIP TV (April 10-14) and Cartoons on the Bay Festival (April 14-18), AWN will be publishing a special TV Animation edition of the Animation Flash on April 4, 2000. To insure that all your television-related news is printed in the Flash please submit press releases to rick@awn.com by March 30, 2000. Please put "MIP TV News" in the subject area of your e-mail. Thank you.

New Orleans, Louisiana-based Imprimatur, Inc., a production, multi-media marketing firm and event planning company is looking for a 2D ANIMATOR for contract work on a children's television program. . . San Francisco, California-based Mondo Media, a new media company that creates and syndicates digital animation for the Web, television and film, is looking for 2D TRADITIONAL CHARACTER ANIMATORS and CHARACTER DESIGNERS to work on original on-line animations and shows. . .

Palo Alto, California-based Pacific Data Images is looking for SENIOR

CHARACTER ANIMATORS. . . Neoglyphix, a pre-IPO Internet entertainment

channel, has an opening for an ANIMATION DIRECTOR who will supervise

all artwork for production of the company's animated Webisodes. . .

Colorado Springs-based Visual Approach is looking for 3D CHARACTER

ANIMATORS for the production of a 3D animated kids series. . .

Hollywood Digital Visual Effects is seeking junior and senior 3D