Each week, Animation World Magazine offers new articles, special features and theme-based coverage of the art, craft and industry of animation. New this week:
- Sketching on Location: Three Dimensional FiguresRenowned drawing instructor Glenn Vilppu continues with his tenth "sketching on location" teaching installment. This month we delve into creating three-dimensional forms with the use of light.
- Licensing And Merchandising Trends And Their Impact On The Sale Of Animated Programming Alliance Atlantis' Ken Faier discusses how today's marketplace is being impacted by L & M trends and what one can do to get ahead.
- Hobbit-alized: The First Attempt At Animating The HobbitWe were first with this, but it became our most ignominious and unnecessary failure. Please weep with me as you read this. I coulda bin a contendah...
- Nine And A Half Questions with Mavis PaisleyWill Ryan asks the infamous voice actress and performer Mavis Paisley a question or two -- or nine and a half.
- I Castelli Animati and Oscar Grillo's ExhibitionsRon Diamond attended Italy's I Castelli Animati and took in two of Oscar Grillo's art exhibitions - one featuring Betty Boop and the other featuring our favorite faces and personalities in animation at crucial moments. Includes both exhibits!