FPS magazine

has posted another article in its new Festival Review

section. In "The Celebration of BC Animation," Leslie Bishko reviews

the event which presented an impressive 25-year retrospective of

independent animation in Vancouver last October.





You can subscribe to FPS and all your favorite animation publications

directly from the Internet 24 hours a day! Available in AWN's

Be a part of Playboy's rich heritage of cartoon humor. Participate in

Playboy's Comix and Animation Contest. All multimedia formats welcome:

Shockwave, Flash, videotape, pen and ink and more! Grand prize winner

receives $25,000. Five honorable mentions will also be selected. Judges

include Scott Adams, Award winning creator of Dilbert, and Kevin Smith,

Writer/Director of hit films "Chasing Amy" and "Dogma." The deadline for

submission is April 1, 2000. As with any contest there are lots of rules

Meet key industry leaders in two power packed panels! AWN's Dan Sarto will

present "THE NEXT WAVE: ANIMATION ON THE INTERNET" at the Animation Expo on

Saturday, March 4, 1:00 PM - 5:30 PM. A panel of leading animators and

industry experts will discuss current opportunities and future

possibilities for the creation and distribution of animation on the

Internet. Session 1 will focus on THE TOOLS, TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIES

being used to create web-based animated content. With so much focus on

- Do you live and breathe anime, comics, manga and sci-fi? Do you enjoy

working in a fast-paced, start-up environment? Then this may be your dream

job! Actionace.com, a pre-IPO company located in the San Francisco Bay

Area, is launching an on-line entertainment channel featuring webisodes

animated in Flash. Actionace.com is hiring all levels of ANIMATORS, from

seasoned professionals to entry-level. Job requirements/skills are: 4-year

college degree (animation major preferred); Thorough understanding of

STEPHEN L. BRAIN, former senior VP and general manager at Fox Animation

Studios has joined STAN LEE MEDIA, INC. as their new executive VP of

Production. In his new post, Brain will create Stan Lee Media's new digital

animation studio dedicated to developing Internet entertainment. Brain will

supervise the production team of storyboard artists, digital artists and

Flash animators as well as increasing Stan Lee's roster of 50 artists to

100 artists within the next 90 days. Beginning his career in 1977, Brain

This week both Corel and Adobe announced that they were adding support for

Macromedia Flash to some of their flagship products. Adobe will be adding

support for Flash to their popular web development tool GoLive, which means

that Adobe users should be able to easily integrate Flash animation into

their existing GoLive projects. Corel also announced that it would be

adding support for Flash to Corel LINUX and CorelDRAW 9. Corel LINUX will

be the first Linux OS to include the Macromedia Flash Player as a standard

The results of AWN's drawing to win a copy of Giannalberto Bendazzi's

reference book "Cartoons: One Hundred Years Of Cinema Animation" are in.

Following are the names of the ten winners: Eric Beckman, Carla Cobb, Peter

Dougherty, Andrea Moore, Scott Nelowet, Gail Noonan, Mary Peng, Stephen

Rapley, George Roy and Peter Westoby. Congratulations and thank you to all

the Animation Flash subscribers who participated.

ASIFA-Hollywood will host its 7th Annual Animation Expo on March 3-4, 2000,

in Glendale, California. The Expo is a two day animation industry trade

show focusing on the exhibition of animation related products and services

and the recruitment of related talent and personnel. Confirmed workshops

include: master teacher and layout artist Glenn Vilppu's "Capturing the

Pose with Line;" Ralph Sanchez, Director of Animation Development at

Nickelodeon Animation Studio, providing insight into developing and

Animation World Network is excited to announce that it has been acquired by

Creative Planet (www.creativeplanet.com), a network of business-to-business

Web sites for creative professionals. Dan Sarto, COO and co-founder of AWN

said, "This transaction will afford AWN the opportunity to continue its

aggressive growth strategy and sustained position as the leading Internet

site for the animation profession." AWN brings to Creative Planet its vast

Toon Boom Technologies recently released a new version of its 2D cel animation software, USAnimation, which is used by top animation studios all over the world (Walt Disney TV Animation, Film Roman, Warner Bros., Klasky Csupo, Paramount Pictures, Mercury FilmWorks, Sunwoo, Cuckoo's Nest, Cinar). Version 5.0 brings a wealth of new tools to animators, including the new 3D camera, or USAnimation's Real-Time Scene Planning module (which can be used at any time after scanning).

New York-based HEAVY.COM is looking for ANIMATORS to join their growing

staff. Applicants are expected to have solid skills in drawing,

storytelling, design, Flash and interpersonal dynamics. Prior filmmaking

experience and/or background in traditional 2D animation techniques is a

plus.





For more information about these and other jobs, check out AWN's

Career Connections, the online Animation Job Fair.

FPS (Frames Per Second), the Canadian animation magazine, now has a

questionnaire on-line that they invite all readers, new and old, to fill

out. The FPS survey is located at

http://www.awn.com/fps/.





The current issue of FPS (#18) is available for sale in AWN's

Newsstand,

where you can subscribe to your favorite animation publications and

Funkmation Studios, an animation house providing services for film,

television, CD-Rom and the Web, has floated into a new home in Brooklyn's

Navy Yard. The animation house will share the new space with New York

Studios' film and television sound stage. Funkmation's credits include:

SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH CD-Rom; storyboard and background design on

COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG; Flash animation on Partner Re's screen savers;

and a 2D animation pilot with C&C Films entitled MAXIMUM BLACK. The new

Sign up now for AWN's ANIMATION FLASH Newsletter and your name will be

entered in a drawing to win a copy of this comprehensive history and

critique of world animation, acclaimed as a classic work of scholarship,

and an indispensable addition to any animation library. AWN is giving away

ten copies of this prestigious book to its subscribers by drawing lots.

This exceptional Millennium drawing is open to all new subscribers and

re-subscribers who buy a yearly subscription of the ANIMATION FLASH before

New Visual Entertainment, Inc., a 3D production company specializing in 3D

product development and distribution for special venue theaters, home

video, broadcast, and theatrical markets, has announced its completed

acquisition of Impact Pictures, Inc., a small San Diego-based multi-media

production house specializing in Web animation, streaming media and

high-end CD-ROM corporate presentations, in a stock for stock transaction.

New Visual plans to utilize the creative hardware and staffing assets of

Three new Scandinavian markets surrendered their airwaves to Pokemania.

Worldwide sensation Pokemon was recently sold to TV4 in Sweden, TV2 in

Denmark and TV2 in Norway. The show will hit the new territories in January

and February 2000. The international distributor, Lacey Entertainment, also

announced the sale of the Pikachu-vehicle to ATV in Turkey and Noga

Communications' Children's Channel in Israel.





The Pokemon phenomenon began in America in 1998 with the release of the

Visual Magic Magazine, AWN's 3D animation and digital effects online

magazine, has posted a new article:

"The Buzz About Flash 4." Flash 4

claims to be the ultimate tool for web animation...and quite frankly, it

probably is.

Animation World Network will be publishing a special NATPE

edition of our weekly E-mail newsletter, Animation Flash,

on January 18, 2000. To insure all your NATPE-related news

is printed in the Flash please submit press releases to

rick@awn.com by January 14, 2000. Please put "NATPE News"

in the subject area of your e-mail.

Sign up now for AWN's ANIMATION FLASH Newsletter and your name will

be entered in a drawing to win a copy of this comprehensive history

and critique of world animation, acclaimed as a classic work of

scholarship, and an indispensable addition to any animation library.

AWN is giving away ten copies of this prestigious book to its

subscribers by drawing lots. This exceptional Millennium drawing is

open to all new subscribers and re-subscribers who buy a yearly

shockwave.com, One Infinity and Madlab Creative have produced Why2k@large which uses Flash 4 animation and MP3 streaming audio technologies to present an animated, multimedia series focusing on the approach of the year 2000. Live interviews were collected on the streets of New York City, New Orleans and San Francisco featuring what the American public thinks about the approaching Millennium.