The Tampere 30th International Short Film Festival takes place in Tampere,
Finland from March 8 - 12, 2000. Entry deadline is December 7, 1999. As the
biggest short film event in Northern Europe, the Tampere Festival features
80 screenings, a film market, and seminars. For more information contact:
Tampere International Short Film Festival, Box 305, FIN-33101, Tampere,
Finland; Tel. + 358-3-213 003; Fax: + 358-3-223 0121; or E-mail:
film.festival@tt.tampere.fi. Also visit www.tampere.fi/festival/film.

The 10th International Trickfilm Festival takes place in Stuttgart, Germany
from March 16 - 21, 2000. The entry deadline is December 1, 1999. The
International Competition will present the best animated productions from
the past two years. More than 500 films will be screened at the festival.
The Best of Animation includes a selection of the most interesting films in
the history of artistic, animated film. Young Animation is a competition
featuring animated films from schools and colleges. The festival will also

mental images recently announced that its high-end Mental Ray rendering
software was the first workstation application to run on Intel's first
engineering samples of the IA-64 Itanium-based platform. mental images and
Intel have been working hand-in-hand to create a version of Mental Ray that
was ported and optimized for the Itanium processor. The new platform was
demonstrated to attendees of the Intel Developer Forum in Palm Springs by
Intel CEO Craig Barrett on an early version of Microsoft's 64-bit version

Previously, we reported that Warner Bros. Home Video had announced that THE
IRON GIANT DVD would be letterboxed at 1.85:1, which would have been
unfortunate because the film has a 2.35:1 aspect ratio and Brad Bird
designed THE IRON GIANT partly in homage to the very wide CinemaScope films
of the 1950s. But Warners has changed their mind and the DVD will be
letterboxed at 2.35:1. THE IRON GIANT DVD will include letterboxed (2.35:1)
and pan & scan versions of the movie, be 16X9, have AC3 and 5.1 surround

Image Entertainment is releasing Art Clokey's DAVEY AND GOLIATH on DVD and
VHS. DAVEY AND GOLIATH was a stop-motion television series that was made by
GUMBY creator Art Clokey for the Lutheran Church in America from 1962 to
1977. It was usually shown on Sunday morning. In the series, Davey, a boy,
and his dog, Goliath, would usually get into some sort of trouble, but
learn a moral lesson by the end of the story. The DAVEY AND GOLIATH DVD
will include eight 14 minute episodes. It is not region coded. Image is

DISNEY CONSUMER PRODUCTS has named ROBYN MILLER senior vice president of
Global Marketing and Studio Development. In her new role, Miller will be
responsible for developing and implementing worldwide marketing and
branding strategies for all of Disney Consumer Products' businesses:
Licensing, The Disney Store, Disney Publishing Worldwide, Walt Disney Art
Classics and Disney Interactive. She will also oversee the development of
consumer products strategies for Disney entertainment properties. At Buena

OLAF OLAFSSON has been named vice chairman of TIME WARNER DIGITAL MEDIA.
Olafsson's appointment becomes effective November 15. Olafsson will work
with Michael Pepe, president and chief operating officer of Time Warner
Digital Media, and the rest of the management team at Time Warner Digital
Media to continue developing strategic business plans for Time Warner's
diverse digital media businesses and identifying emerging growth
opportunities for the company in the digital realm. Olafsson joins Time

THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY has completed the next stage in the development of
its international organization for Europe by naming six Disney veterans to
country management roles. The six executives will all become managing
director of six country groupings. CLAUS GYDESEN, 39, has been appointed
managing director for Germany, Austria and Switzerland and will continue to
be based in Munich. As head of Disney's video operations in these markets,
Gydesen established a direct-to-retailer operation that helped make Buena

FRANK SAPERSTEIN has been appointed Creative Director of Philippines-based
pasi (PHILIPPINE ANIMATION STUDIO, INC.). His responsibilities will include
quality control, co-productions and marketing, and technical development of
the studio. He is based out of Los Angeles, California. Saperstein comes
directly from Matinee Entertainment where he served as
Producer/Director/Writer of KAMPUNG BOY, a co-production with pasi, which
won a Special Prize for Best TV Program at Annecy '99. In addition, MIMBI

Puffin Designs, the award winning company behind Commotion LE and the
Commotion Player, recently announced that a new image editing and effects
program for MAC and PC users - Commotion DV - is now shipping. The new
software is designed to make the nitty-gritty work of making visual effects
believable a piece of cake. For example, Commotion DV features a SuperClone
brush which makes wire and rig removal, crowd scene generation/editing,
shot clean-up and much more easier. This new release also features Puffin's

A new upgrade to Ulead's popular video editing software MediaStudio was
recently announced, with an interesting list of new features. The new
version will feature an integrated editing, painting, audio, and titling
tool in the one package. Ulead are also expanding MediaStudio's
compatibility and output features by announcing support for DV, MPEG-2, VFW
and WDM capture drivers, and IEEE-1394 support. More drag and drop effects,
filters and transitions will be present in the new version, along with new

British born Cambridge Animation Systems has announced a new plug-in for
Alias|Wavefront's Maya which allows users to turn their 3D work into
traditional looking 2D animations. Animo Inkworks lets Maya animators
export their 3D data into Animo where it can be composited into a 2D scene
using Animo's Scene III plug-in. This new release brings high-quality
toon-shading to Maya users, and allows them to integrate their 3D and 2D
work more tightly with a high degree of customisation.

ILM Visual Effects Supervisor Scott Squires' company Puffin Designs has begun
shipping a Windows version of the already available MAC software 'Composite
Wizard.' The Adobe After Effects plug-in is a smart little program which
gives artists the power to clean up After Effects composites quickly and
easily, fixing common compositing problems such as ragged edges, poor matte
extractions, and improper focal depth cues. The package features over 20
filters which can be used to clean up mattes, along with 'EZ' versions of

Spumco (THE REN AND STIMPY SHOW, RANGER SMITH) has begun a serialized Web
Comic called GEORGE LIQUOR'S FISHING SHOW, based on comics first seen in
Spumco's COMIC BOOK, which was published initially by Marvel, then by Dark
Horse. The Web version is like a comic book that talks, so when you click
on the dialogue balloons, George hollers at you, and there are also many
hidden sound effects waiting to be found. A new page or two will be added
every weekday at www.spumco.com/entertainment/gfs/index.html.

The 2nd Annual Worldfest-Flagstaff International Film Festival. Worldfest,
which has been held in Houston for 32 years and additionally in Charleston,
South Carolina for five years, takes place in Flagstaff, Arizona, the
festival's second appearance there. The festival's focus is on independent
works that have not yet been picked up for distribution. The wide
competition program features eight animation categories and several others,
which may accept animated works, such as "computer generated/mixed media."

The 22nd Cinanima International Animated Film Festival. Since 1977,
Cinanima has been promoting the international art of animation in Espinho,
a city located on the Northern coast of Portugal. The events takes place
Monday, November 8 - Sunday, November 14 in Esphino, Portugal. For more
information contact: Cinanima, Apartado 743, Rua 62-251, 4501 Espinho
Codex, Portugal; Tel. + (351) 2 734-4611, 734-1621; Fax: + (351) 2
734-6015; or E-mail: cinanima@mail.telepac.pt. Also visit
www.awn.com/cinanima.

The School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents the seventh annual New York
Digital Salon, an international juried showcase of computer-generated
artwork. Computer animation screenings will be shown at the SVA
Amphitheatre and the exhibit takes place in the School's Visual Arts
Museum, both located at 209 East 23rd Street. The event takes place Monday,
November 8 in New York, New York, USA. For more information and to view
work on-line, visit www.sva.edu/salon.

ASIFA-Hollywood and Glendale Community College present the
Fourth Annual Lecture Series on "Production Management" with guest speaker,
Kellie-Bea Cooper. Cooper, Production Manager at Phil Roman Entertainment,
has produced award winning independent shorts in both traditional animation
and computer animation which have been featured by SIGGRAPH. She has also
worked with several studios including Jim Henson Interactive and Warner
Brothers. Her background includes work in live action, interactive, Web,

New York University hosts a symposium on The National Film Board of Canada
in honor of the NFB's 60th anniversary. The event takes place Thursday,
November 11 - Sunday, November 14 in New York, New York, USA. For more
information Tel. (212) 596-1660.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents the National Film
Board of Canada's 60th Anniversary Animation Celebration. The Academy is
located at 8949 Wilshire Blvd. The event takes place Thursday, November 18,
8 pm. Beverly Hills, California, USA. For more information Tel. (310)
247-3000.