FRANK T. CARUSO has been promoted to VP, Creative, at KING FEATURES
SYNDICATE, a world leader in distributing comics to newpapers and merchandising licensing. The former Creative Director, Licensing will oversee new King Features licensing properties and all creative aspects of the company's Internet, animation and promotional activities. He will continue to supervise the creative aspects of BETTY BOOP, POPEYE, and other classic King Feature comic properties.

WILD BRAIN, INC. signed Oscar-winning producer NINA RAPPAPORT to head the
production company's computer graphics endeavors. After joining Wild Brain
in May of this year as a freelance producer, Rappaport helped bring
together the talent needed to produce the company's slate of CG projects.
Before coming to Wild Brain, Rappaport was Executive Producer at Blue Sky
Studios in New York. Her feature film credits include producing the effects
on JOE'S APARTMENT and A SIMPLE WISH and executive producing STAR TREK:
INSURRECTION.

Director/animator Mike Dietz, founder of Orange County, CA-based Mike
Dietz Studios, has signed on to direct an episode of THE PJ'S, the
stop-motion animated show starring movie-star Eddie Murphy, for Portland,
OR-based Will Vinton Studios. Mike Dietz was one of the founding partners
of The Neverhood, the stop motion animation studio that produced several
projects for Steven Spielberg's interactive division of DreamWorks SKG.
Since leaving The Neverhood to start his own animation studio, Mike has

Sega Dreamcast, the most advanced videogame system to date, has gone platinum.
Sega of America, Inc. announced that the 128-bit, Internet-ready videogame
system has sold one million units in North America since its launch on
September
9, 1999. This milestone came six weeks ahead of corporate predictions and
before
the after-Thanksgiving holiday shopping frenzy. The platinum mark for
Dreamcast has broken sales records by other high-profile consumer and
electronic products.

The Reed Midem Organization, organizers of Milia 2000, have entered into a
far-reaching agreement with the Interactive Software Federation of Europe
(ISFE)
-- who include members from interactive industry organizations like AISI in
Italy, ELSPA in the UK, NVPI in the Netherlands, SELL in France and VUD in
Germany -- to co-produce the Interactive Entertainment and Online Games
conference for the THINK.TANK Summit. THINK.TANK will be a new two-day
conference and networking event for the interactive content industry held in

This weekend, Film Roman, Inc., producers of THE SIMPSONS and KING OF THE
HILL, launched Level 13.net, an innovative multi-channel animation network
to be delivered via the Internet. Level 13 is the industry's first
regularly scheduled, animated television-like network made directly for the
Web. William Shpall, Chief Operating Officer of Film Roman, and architect
of the company's Internet strategy, said, "While many of today's
entertainment and Internet leaders are still testing enhanced television

On Monday, November 29, 1999, Time Warner launched its new Internet
entertainment network, Entertaindom. The new channel is the first on-line
entertainment network produced from a major media company. The channel will
offer a smorgasbord of on-line entertainment, news, and services from Warner's
vast vault of branded material. Entertaindom will include entertainment
news and
information from "Entertainment Weekly," CNN, Reuters, "Variety" and other
sources, including music and TV stories, movie reviews, hit lists and critics'

On December 10, 1999, Cartoon Network will debut the one-hour millenium
special DEXTER'S LABORATORY'S EGO TRIP. The special will center around Dexter's over-zealous reaction to receiving a message from the future which informs him that he will one day save the planet. The show will air at 7pm on December 10 and repeat at 12am on Janurary 1, 2000.

Famous Technologies has announced that version 1.5 of its stand-alone facial
animation system FAMOUSfaces is now shipping. The program, which is aimed at
film, broadcast, games and location-based entertainment developers now boasts
some amazing new features. The software allows character animators to create
realistic facial animation using one of, or a combination of any of the
following input devices: motion-capture, video, puppetry devices, voice
recognition or cluster targetting. New in version 1.5, animators can use the

The popular Knoll Light Factory plug-in from Puffin Designs was recently
released for Avid Xpress, Media Composer, and Symphony -- the trimmed
version of
Knoll Lens Flare Pro is titled Knoll Lens Flare AVX. The software allows users
to create lens flares with an unprecedented level of precision and control.
Based on the Lens Primitives in Knoll Lens Flare Pro, the plug-in consists
of a
number of filters which include elements modeled on professional camera lenses

Discreet's 3D Studio MAX 3 is currently being used by more than 116,000
artists
world-wide, a number signifying the major upgrades rising to an industry
standard package in film, broadcast, games, multimedia, and design industries.
The new upgrade boasts many new features, but the ones that have brought the
product into this popular position so soon after its release are most
definately
the new 'world-class' renderer, and the infinitely extensible production
environment. Many of these 100,000+ customers are taking advantage of 3D

AtomFilms, a pioneer in next-generation media, has added Bill Plympton to
their animation roster. The newly created Pymptonia fan site will be run by

Imagina 2000 with FIFI (Festival International du Film de l'Internet) have
opened their competition to animation created specifically for the

In preparation for the 14th World Festival of Animated Films, Zagreb 2000 has started taking entries. Entry forms must be received by February 1, 2000 and films on VHS (for selection only), BETACAM SP PAL, or film prints must be received by March 1, 2000. Please, send VHS tapes to Zagreb Film (Animafest) Vlaska 70 10,000 Zagreb, Croatia. The festival will be held June 21-25, 2000.



For more information contact Zagreb Film (Animafest) at Vlaska 70, 10,000
Zagreb, Croatia, Europe. Tel.: ++385-1-4666 439 4613 689, Fax: ++ 385-1-4557

Infogrames Entertainment, a leading developer, publisher and distributor of
interactive entertainment, announced it has acquired GT Interactive Software
(GTIS), a US-based company. The total investment is being reported as $135
million. Infogrames' product catalog includes such franchises as Mission
Impossible,Test Drive and Looney Tunes. GTIS brings such titles as Driver,
Deer Hunter, Blues Clues and Abe's Odyssey. This transaction is part of
Infogrames' global expansion strategy and will help further establish the

The Disney Channel and Toon Disney gear up for the holiday season with a new
millennium celebration. The Disney Channel will feature holiday episodes
from Playhouse Disney series BEAR IN THE BIG HOUSE, ROLIE POLIE OLIE, and
PB&J OTTER. To highlight FANTASIA/2000's January 1st opening in IMAX
theatres around the country, MOVIE SURFER'S will go inside the new film.
Toon Disney, the 24-hour all-animation network, will present various
holiday-themed features as well as the television premiere of the Annie

U.K.-based Eidos plc, one of the world's leading publishers and developers of entertainment software, announced their results for the three and six months ended September 30, 1999. Revenues for the quarter were BR£27.3 million (US$45.0 million), up from 21.8 million pounds for the corresponding period last year. On a U.S. GAAP basis the company's loss before tax for the quarter was £16.8 million ($27.8 million), giving a net loss of £12.8 million ($21.2 million) and a loss per share of 66.3 pence (109.4¢), compared to a net loss of £8.8

The Moondance International Film Festival has selected, the
traditionally-animated BEELINES, by Rachel Bevan Baker, from Edinburgh,
Scotland, as this year's winner in the animation division. Moondance 2000
takes place in Boulder, Colorado, January 14-16, 2000. Entries from female
screenwriters and filmmakers from any country were welcomed to the competition.
For more information e-mail: mermaid7cs@aol.com; or write: Moondance
International Film Festival, 970 Ninth Street, Boulder, CO 80302, USA.

The Los Angeles Independent Film Festival has put out a call for
submissions for its April 13-18, 2000 event. The deadline for submissions is January 7th, 2000.
The six year-old festival showcases the best in independent music videos from
North America. Music videos that were completed after January 1, 1998 can be
submitted on 1/2" VHS. If selected for exhibition, you must have a 16mm or
35mm print. For further information or submission application, please call (323)
951-7090 or check out the LAIFF website at www.laiff.com.

Lovebytes Digital Arts Festival 2000 invites entries of film, video,
multimedia and net art to feature in a substantial exhibition of digital work for
exhibition in April, 2000. In its fifth year, the festival features a
mixture of digital art and media including exhibitions, seminars, screenings, specially
commissioned artworks, alongside workshops and live performances from some of
the world's most innovative digital sound and multimedia artists. All events
will be staged in Sheffield's Media and Exhibition Centre. If you produce