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Effects Headline News

VFX Producers Emphasize Asset Management and Previs at Producers Guild Mixer

The demanding and multi-faceted role of the visual effects producer took center stage as the Producers Guild of America hosted its third mixer of the year, Aug. 21, 2003, at Sony Imageworks.

Films Headline News

SAFO Announces Films

The Student Animation Festival Ottawa (SAFO) has announced the films in and out of competition for its 2003 event. California Institute of the Arts led the pack with seven film selected, followed by Royal College of Art with three films getting spots. The categories in the official competition are High School/Secondary Student Film (11 films), Post-Secondary Student Films (11 films), Post-Secondary Graduate Films (24 films), First Film (9 films), Childrens Animation (15 films) and Best School Showreel (6 schools).

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Producers Make Statement About LEAF & DAW Cancellation

Advanstar Communications, the producers of the London Effects and Animation Festival and Digital Arts World, have release its official statement regarding the suspension and cancellation of the events respectively. Both events were scheduled to run simultaneously from October 28-30, 2003 at Earls Court London.

Disney Headline News

Disney Offers 100 Kids the Chance to Draw with Disney Artists

Along with six Disney filmmakers, Walt Disney ceo Michael Eisner will be hosting 100 children for lunch and a hands-on demonstration of how films like LILO & STITCH, THE LION KING and TARZAN were made. The event will take place in the Disney Animation attraction at Disney's California Adventure park in Anaheim on September 6, 2003 starting at 11:30 am.

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LEAF & Digital Arts World 2003 Cancelled

AWN has learned from sources at the London Effects & Animation Festival (LEAF) that Advanstar, the producers of the event, have cancelled the 2003 edition of the festival along with Digital Arts World. LEAF is one of Europes biggest visual effects and animation events. The reason for the move hinged on the producers inability to garner enough funding from exhibitors to go forth with the events. As well, LEAF festival manager Sophie Trainor has left her post to take on a role in the public relations and marketing department at Soho visual effects house The Moving Picture Company.

Awards Headline News

DVD Awards Coming Soon

6th Annual DVD AwardsUniversal City, California, USAAugust 20, 2003

The 6th Annual DVD Awards is the premiere awards ceremony for the DVD industry. Hosted by famed film critic Leonard Maltin, the event celebrates the art of making DVDs. This year the event will feature a Viewer's Choice Award. DVD publishers, film studios, production companies, mastering facilities and individual producers are invited to participate in the awards program honoring the best in DVD. For more information visit http://www.recordingmedia.org/dvd-awards.html.

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ASIFA-Hollywood Presents Daws Butler Tribute

ASIFA-Hollywood presents a tribute to voice-acting legend Daws Butler. The event will be hosted by Joe Bevilacqua and will include panelists June Foray, Corey Burton and Nancy Cartwright. The panelists will perform one of Butler's workshop scripts live as well as play rare recordings of Butler's performances. The event will also include a Q&A session. The Walter Lantz Foundation will be sponsoring the event, which will begin at 7:30 pm on July 31, 2003 at the Glendale Public Library Auditorium, 222 E. Harvard Ave., Glendale, California.

Digital Headline News

What's Happening at SIGGRAPH 2003?

This year's SIGGRAPH is expected to draw more than 25,000 computer graphics and interactive technology professionals and 200 exhibitors at the San Diego Convention Center, July 27-31, 2003. The conference (Sunday through Thursday) includes a July 28 keynote address, "Modeling the Cosmos: The Shape of the Universe," by Cambridge University astrophysicist Anthony Lasenby (8:00-9:45 am, Room 20A-C).

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HypeFest Unveils Its 2003 Program

HypeFest, the new film and video festival that links independent ideas with commercial creativity, has announced its 2003 selection of short films, music videos, commercials and promos. Held at Cinespace in Hollywood, 6356 Hollywood Blvd., on July 26 and 27, HypeFest will present original short-subject work selected from hundreds of entries from around the world.

Free Headline News

First 20 Readers Get Free Passes to French Animation Screening

The American Cinematheque is offering AWN readers free passes to the French Animation Shorts screening at the Egyptain Theater on July 16, 2003. The first 20 people to e-mail GWEN@americancinematheque.com will receive free admission.

Animation Headline News

Animation Community Helps Save Ottawa Fest

As reported by AWN on July 3, 2002, the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) has regained its primary funding from Telefilm Canada through the end of the fiscal year 2004. OIAF received more than 300 letters of support from all over the globe, which were forwarded to Telefilm. Supporters included Canadian animation companies such as Funbag, Head Gear, Bardel Animation and Atomic Cartoons; U.S.

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Ottawa Saved… For Now

Chris Robinson, artistic director for the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), has informed AWN that Telefilm Canada, the federal film funding branch of the Ministry of Heritage, has renewed the festivals funding for the 2003-2004 fiscal year. More details will be posted when they arrive.

November Headline News

AFM Moves to Fall with AFI Film Fest

AFMA announced June 16, 2003 that it will shift its annual Santa Monica, California-based American Film Market from February to November beginning in 2004. The last winter AFM will be held on February 25 to March 3, 2004. The first fall AFM will be held November 3-10, 2004, meaning indie players and business will need to make plans to attend the AFM twice in 2004. This removes the AFM from the busy awards season as well as the nearby Sundance and Berlin fests.

Digital Headline News

Digital Summit to Tackle Hollywood

THE DIGITAL STUDIO, an iHollywood Forum Inc. summit exploring the impact of digital technologies on film and TV, will be held June 19-20, 2003, from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm at the Wyndham Belage Hotel in West Hollywood. Keynote speakers will include Chuck Comiskey, visual effects supervisor for James Cameron's Earthship Prods.; Steve Wright, technical director Cinesite; and Volker Engel, Oscar award-winner for Best Special Effects for INDEPENDENCE DAY.

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Garfield Turns 25

Garfield celebrates his 25th birthday with a book signing and exhibit with his creator, Jim Davis, at Animazing Gallery from 6-9:00 pm on June 18, 2003, in New York City. Comic creator and animation producer Davis will sign copies of IN DOG YEARS I'D BE DEAD, his just released book celebrating Garfields 25th anniversary ($35.00). Original paintings, classic GARFIELD cartoon strips and original animation cels and drawings will be on exhibit and for sale.

Animation Headline News

WIA Los Angeles Presents Storyboard Panel

Established storyboard artists will discuss how their art makes animation possible at the Women In Animation Los Angeles Chapter general meeting on June 26, 2003 from 6:30-9:30 pm at Klasky Csupo, 6353 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California. Characters, staging, pace, mood storyboard artists create the movie before it even gets made. The vision and blueprint for every aspect of production are set down in the storyboard, to be followed by everyone up through the final frame. "Storyboard: The Essential Art" panelists include Paul DeMeyer, director at Klasky Csupo; John Fountain, director at Nickelodeon; Llyn Hunter, storyboard artist at Walt Disney TV Animation and Linda Miller, director/writer/story artist for various studios. Christa Percival, story artist, will serve as moderator.

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Rhythm & Hues Adds Second Los Angeles Event

Due to the popular response for Rhythm & Hues' June 12 presentation of THE MAKING OF X-MEN 2 AND OTHER EFFECTS at its Los Angeles studios, the award-winning VFX house has added a second presentation on June 26, 2003.

Jude Adamson, a senior lighting technical director, and Anjelica Casillas, character development/producer, r&d, will explore the pipeline and procedures used by the artists at Rhythm & Hues Studios to produce a wide range of recent Hollywood films, including SCOOBY-DOO, DAREDEVIL and X-MEN 2.

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NATPE Moves 2004 Conference Back One Week

The National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) decided to push back its 2004 annual Conference and Exhibition one week to January 18-20, 2004, at the adjoined Venetian Hotel and Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas, according to Rick Feldman, NATPE president/ceo. The decision to change the event's dates and shorten its length by one day was made after the association determined that the requirements it held for hotel facilities and exhibition floor space for the original dates of January 13-16 could not be fulfilled.

Star Headline News

Stop-Motion Master Harryhausen Joins Hollywood Walk of Fame

Although it took many years of intense lobbying by the VFX community, stop-motion pioneer Ray Harryhausen (IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA, THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD, MYSTERIOUS ISLAND and JASON & THE ARGONAUTS) finally got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, June 10, 2003, right next to the legendary El Capitan Theater.

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