Animation filmmaker, teacher, and author John Canemaker has been awarded a
Rockefeller Foundation residency grant in Bellagio, Italy. From July 27
through August 25, he will stay at the 16th century Villa Serbelloni on
Lake Como, where he will work on a storyboard for a personal animated film.
From August 31 through September 5, he will be a guest of FANTOCHE, the
Swiss Animation Festival in Baden, where he will present two
lecture/screenings on Animated Surrealism and Jazztoons: Jazz and Animation.

San Francisco-based Mondo Media is looking to hire a Director of Creative Operations...

New York-based Educational Institution for Children is looking for a Freelance Animator...

The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, is looking for an Office Coordinator...

The Art Institutes International at San Francisco, a post-secondary, degree granting educational institution, is seeking a qualified candidate to serve as ACADEMIC DIRECTOR...

SOFTIMAGE will be showcasing the latest release of Toonz, the leading 2D cel animation solution at SIGGRAPH '99 in Los Angeles. Toonz version 4.3 features a more interactive exposure sheet, larger palettes, "3D" textures, and new special FX. SOFTIMAGE will also be introducing for the first time the Toonz Linetester. Also shown, will be the Toonz plug-in for SOFTIMAGE®|3D which will minimize your tracking nightmares when combining all those external materials.

The deadlines for participation in Animation World Magazine's "SIGGRAPH 99 Special Report", part of our August "Computer and Internet Animation" issue, are fast approaching:


* Advertising space reservation: July 21st


* Press Releases and other News Items receipt: July 23rd


* Advertising Materials receipt: July 26th

The ASIFA Italy web site has been updated. Read the most recent issue of the ASIFA Italy Newsletter, NOTIZIE ASIFA ITALIA, featuring: "Japanimation At The Annecy Festival;" "Luigi Liberio Pensuti, Italian Animation Pioneer;" an interview with Terry Brian by Italian model-maker Francesca Ferrario;" Bendazzi on European animation in the book "The World History Of Cinema;” plus, a list of upcoming Italian events. Available in Italian only.


www.awn.com/asifa-italia

This week's updates to the Calendar of Events includes ten new animation-related events, including: The BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards in London, the Ourense Independent Film Festival in Spain, and Cinequest San Jose Film Festival 2000 in California.

Once again, Bill Plympton has updated his appearances page. This month, "I Married a Strange Person" will be appearing in various festivals and other events in Canada, Germany, Finland and Ukraine. "Mondo Plympton" will be screened in the US, Brazil and Germany. Bill will also be attending the events in Canada, Brazil and Germany.


www.awn.com/plympton/appearances.html

AWN has launched a brand new weekly animation trivia quiz...

This week's comic depicts a drug dealer...or is he a contortionist?

CARTOON has announced this year's nominees for the coveted Cartoon d'Or.
Making the list for best European animated short films are: L'ARME DU
CROCODILE by Eric Blesin (Belgium), EL CARMINANTE by Debra Smith (UK),
JOLLY ROGER by Mark Baker (UK), MIGRATION by Constantin Chamski (France),
LE CYCLOPE DE LA MER by Philippe Julien (France), and SALTKVERNEN by Pjotr
Sapegin (Norway). The annual Cartoon Forum, where the Cartoon d'Or is
awarded, is organized by AEFA Cartoon, the European Association for

Walt Disney-owned companies Touchstone Television Productions and ABC
Television Group are merging to form ABC Entertainment Television Group.
According to ABC Television Group president Pat Fili-Krushel, "The goal in
consolidation is to produce creative results that result in more Disney
product on ABC and also allow us to achieve economies of scale." In other
words, this consolidation will likely result in more Disney-produced
television programming appearing on ABC (Touchstone currently has only two

One year old Vancouver-based Mercury Filmworks, a fully equipped digital
animation facility, has added 3D production to its list of in-house
services. Currently, the 3D animation department at Mercury is working on
the television series D'MYNA LEAGUES, which has been created and developed
by Vancouver-based animation house Studio B, and is slated to air on
Canada's CTV/VTV in January 2000. With the addition of the new 3D
department, Mercury is now unique in its ability to take not just a single

"Shorties" is a series of two-minute animated shorts that re-interpret some
of Hanna-Barbera's lesser known, but fondly-remembered characters such as
Atom Ant, Jabberjaw, and Wally Gator. The shorts began to air in June
throughout the day on Cartoon Network during breaks from regularly
scheduled programming. They feature original plots and different animation
techniques for each short, and aim to update these characters with an
ironic, post-modern twist. Techniques include cel animation, cut-outs,

Children's BBC has commissioned newly formed London-based Silver Fox Films
to produce ANGELMOUSE, a 26-part series for the BBC. The series is about a
little mouse who has been sent down from heaven to help out. He's not very
good at his job, however, and whenever a good deed backfires, as often
happens, his halo dims or disappears. Graham Ralph is directing the series
which is slated to debut later this year. Graham Ralph recently formed
Sliver Fox after relinquishing his stake in London-based Hibbert Ralph

The CBS Television Network's 1999-2000 Saturday Morning schedule, which
begins on October 2, includes three returning shows and three new ones, all
produced by Toronto-based Nelvana. The new series are RESCUE HEROES,
BLASTER'S UNIVERSE, and NEW TALES FROM THE CRYPT. RESCUES HEROES is about a
team of international emergency response professionals, and is designed to
introduce young viewers to preparedness and safety techniques. BLASTER'S
UNIVERSE is based on a series of CD-ROMs from Knowledge Adventure. Set in

The Voice Over Group meets Monday, July 12, and every second Monday of the
month at Monday, July 12, 7 pm in Burbank, California, USA. Contact MJ
Lallo at (818) 980-6576 or Murel Whitaker at (310) 412-2719.

Disney's TARZAN, based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs character, finished
fourth, grossing an estimated $11.3 million at the US weekend boxoffice to
bring its total to $129.5 million. This puts it on the list of 100
top-grossing films of all-time in North America. It has already surpassed
Disney's previous animated feature, MULAN, which grossed $120.5 million.
Warner Bros.' WILD WILD WEST, with digital effects by ILM, finished second,
grossing an estimated $16.7 million for a total of $76.4 million; STAR WARS