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Director Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship to Make New Short Film

Director Mark Osborne and Karen Dufilho-Rosen, producer of several Academy Award-winning animated short films, are partnering in Los Angeles to make THE BETTER HALF, a stop-motion animated short film, with a 2004/2005 Guggenheim Fellowship Osborne received to partially fund the making of the new short.

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DZP Marketing Adds Veteran Exec Producer Rainville

DZP Marketing Communications (www.dzpusa.com) has added Ray Rainville as the company's exec producer. Rainville comes to DZP following a year as the exec producer of Design VFX for post house Betelgeuse Prods, New York. At Betelgeuse, Rainville led the launch of the Betelgeuse division, BETSY Design VFX, a design/visual effects boutique.

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ArchVision Releases New Composer Program

ArchVision Inc. announced the availability of ArchVision Composer, a new tool that lets users add Rich Photorealistic Content (RPC) to 2D renderings and photographs. With features like automatic scaling, shadow generation and Opacity, Saturation and Brightness controls, Composer lets users improve the quality of their renderings by quickly adding realistic entourage like RPC people, trees and cars. Composer runs as a standalone application or in conjunction with Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Photoshop Elements.

Universal Headline News

Bohm New NBC Universal TV Distribution VP Int’l Marketing

Pauline Bohm joins NBC Universal Television Distribution in the newly created post of vp, international marketing. Bohm will work closely with Dan Weiss, evp, marketing, to whom she report, developing marketing strategies for international markets serviced by NBC Universal International TV Dist., which includes a client-base in more than 200 countries.

Dreamworks Headline News

Spider-Man 2 Spins Top Box Office Again

Sony's SPIDER-MAN 2 spun its way to the top of the box office weekend, ended July 12, 2004, catching another $46M in its web with a cume of $257M. The sequel (with vfx from Sony Pictures Imageworks and Radium Inc.) streaked past the $200M milestone in a record eight days, the $250M mark in a record 12 days and is fast approaching the $300M benchmark.

Effects Headline News

Svengali Visual Effects Garden State Work

Svengali Visual Effects has contributed visual effects to GARDEN STATE, Zach Braffs (NBCs SCRUBS) directorial debut that premiered to critical acclaim at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Scheduled for release on July 30, 2004 by Fox Searchlight, GARDEN STATE is a dark, romantic comedy set in New Jersey.

Animation Headline News

This Week’s Animation Trivia Quiz for July 8, 2004

Test your skills and challenge your brain with AWN's Animation Trivia Quiz. Check out the latest installment from quizmaster Karl Staven, an accomplished independent animator and head of the Animation Department at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Magica Headline News

Lanterna Magica To Produce Gino the Chicken

Italian animation studio Lanterna Magica, along with studios Enarmonia and Melazeta, have been given the go-ahead to produce GINO THE CHICKEN, a 52-episode TV series. The show is a co-production with Italian state television, RAI and is scheduled to be delivered in January 2006. Lanterna Magica plans to use Toon Boom Animation's Concerto to produce the series.

Technology Headline News

Bionatics' natFX 1.9 for 3ds max Now Available

Bionatics has announced the availability of natFX 1.9 for 3ds max from Discreet. The software now offers a new generation of hybrid modeling technology, such as the texture manager or the choice of the number of billboard. Hybrid modeling is a compromise between 2D and 3D.

Home Headline News

Randy Wells Joins Miramax Home Ent. Marketing

Randy Wells joins Miramax Home Ent. as vp of home entertainment, responsible for handling the companys day-to-day marketing of its home entertainment product for both Miramax and Dimension titles, including theatrical and direct to DVD titles. Wells will be based out of Miramaxs Los Angeles office and reports to sevp of home entertainment Jeffrey Fink.

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Alphanim and The Farm Get Cooking on New Series

Paris-based Alphanim is partnering with Irish house The Farm, to produce the new animated series, COOKING? CHILDS PLAY! Due for delivery in January 2005, COOKING? CHILDS PLAY! is based on Michel Olivers best-selling series of cookbooks for kids and is being produced with CCA and Canal J.

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J. J. Sedelmaier Animates Reph for ESPN SportsCenter Classics

As part of its 25th Anniversary celebration, ESPN has brought back some of its classic SportsCenter promo spots, featuring a new animated character named Reph, which was produced by J.J. Sedelmaier Prods. The commercials, which won numerous creative awards, were created by ESPN's longtime agency, Wieden + Kennedy. The Reph characters helps viewers know they're watching a classic spot by fruitlessly attempting to get into the ESPN vault. The character was designed by J. J. Sedelmaier, who produced and directed the animated segments.

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Oregon3D's Open House Features CG & Game Development

Oregon3D Inc., The Academy for Digital Arts & Sciences, will be holding a two-day open house scheduled for July 20 and 21, 2004. Technology presentations will focus on game development and design/visualization applications.

Oregon3D's Game Development Day: July 20, 3:00 to 7:00 pmPresenters from Turbo Squid, RTzen, Right Hemisphere and other guest speakers will explore the tools and techniques used to create today's top-selling videogames.

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Framestore Sounds Football in the Snow for BT

Framestore CFC recently completed digital effects work on a new three-spot campaign for BT, highlighting the company's Customer Care program. St. Luke's was the agency on SNOW, FOOTBALL and SOUNDS with Outsider films as the production company. SNOW and FOOTBALL were directed by Dom and Nic with Nick Gordon helming SOUNDS.

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MillTv goes for Gold with BBC’s First Olympians

MillTv recently completed the effects work on the BBC drama-documentary, THE FIRST OLYMPIANS, which looks at the equipment of early athletes and looks at the recently found remains of an early Olympic participant. MillTv was brought on board to digitally re-build the ancient site of Olympia, complete with games and crowds.

Team Headline News

Jeff Brown Signs With Tag Team Films

Academy and Emmy Award-winning director Jeff Brown has signed an agreement for exclusive representation with Tag Team Films in Los Angeles, an industry leading producer of kids and toy commercials. Brown, on staff at Rocket Films, New York City, for the past 10 years, has directed well over 100 toy spots, many involving very young children, including work for Fisher-Price, Hasbro, Tyco and Playskool.

Series Headline News

4Kids Offers Up Tokyo Mew Mew and F-Zero

4Kids Entertainment Inc. is offering two exciting new Japanese anime series to the global marketplace: TOKYO MEW MEW, a drama action series targeted to girls, and boys action/adventure series, F-ZERO.

MEW MEW (52x30) follows the adventures of five teenage girls who possess the powers of endangered animals and battle aliens who threaten mankind. These very contemporary teen girls are multi-taskers who accomplish all of this while juggling their time with homework and boys.

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