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Laybourne Launching New Company

Geraldine Laybourne, often described as one of the most powerful women inthe entertainment industry, has left her post as president of Disney/ABC Cable Networks to form her own diversified media company. With ABC asits first investor and client, the still unnamed company will focus oncreating branded content for the Internet and television, targeted mainlyat women and children. Prior to joining Disney/ABC in 1996, Laybourne waspresident of Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite, a company she joined in 1980 at its

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Whose Golden Age?: Canadian Animation In The 1990s

Chris Robinson investigates the current status of animation in Canada and the tricky balance between art and industry.

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It Takes Three to Tango

Through a series of pointed questions we take a look at the relationship between educators, industry representatives and students. School profiles are included.

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It Takes Three To Tango: Educators

Joe Cloninger, Director, DH Institute of Media Arts, Santa Monica, U.S.A. Before anyone starts here we make sure the expectations are sensible and they know the great rewards as well as the harsh realities of being in this industry. We point out weaknesses and strengths that an individual may have so they are on solid ground to build a true career path. Once they get into the program we expose them to people in the industry through a lecture series and encourage them to get out and explore the industry themselves through SIGGRAPH meetings, events, conferences, user groups, etc. We also...

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Crashing BrainCamp

Wendy Jackson reports on the second annual BrainCamp, an exclusive think tank for executives in the kids' entertainment industry.

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It Takes Three To Tango: Industry Representatives

Kit Laybourne muses about the evolution of independent animation and looks "below the radar" for the growth of new emerging domains of digital animation.

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Vilppu Drawing Online: Gesture

Renowned drawing instructor Glenn Vilppu offers the first installment in his new bi-monthly Animation World Magazine online drawing course.

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The Essential Animation Reference Library

Animation historian Jerry Beck describes the ideal library of "essential" books on animation.

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It Takes Three To Tango: Students

Lyn Hart, Capilano College Commercial Animation Program, North Vancouver, B.C. Here I am; a squeaky-clean, fresh-out-of-school animation graduate. With my portfolio in hand and a slightly hesitant smile, I'm stepping out into the real world. But what has my two years of sweat and toil in Capilano College's Animation Program done for me?

For starters, it did exactly what it was supposed to do by providing me with the important basics I needed to land my first job. Some might have expected more. I must admit, I thought I was pretty hot stuff when I first began my animation education. I soon...

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On A Desert Island With....Internet Animators

A survey of animation and visual effects artists, asking, "What" ten animated films would you want to have with you if stranded on a desert island?

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Who the Heck is Jared?

Animation World Magazine profiles Jared, the singing, animated smiley face which has become a cult phenomenon on the World Wide Web.

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Dig This! 1001 Nights: An Animation Symphony

Buzz Potamkin tells us how the much-awaited first annual Annecy International Animated Film Festival faired.

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Editor's Notebook

It's the drawing stupid!

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Dirdy Birdy

June 2008's Dirdy Birdy by John Dilworth.

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Animation on the Internet: The Tools

Robert Gonzales shares his insight on the various tools currently available for creating animation on the Internet.

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Quest For Camelot : Warner's Bid for the Round Table

Ilene Hoffman reviews Warner Bros. Feature Animation's highly-anticipated first fully-animated feature film, Quest for Camelot

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Crashing BrainCamp

Wendy Jackson reports on the second annual BrainCamp,an exclusive think tank for executives in the kids' entertainment industry.

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Animation Sites: Some Stellar Attractions

Michelle Klein-Hs surveys the best animation web sites on the Internet, from her own Animation Nerd's Paradise to Spumco's George Liquor.

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Fireworks: Does it Have a Special Spark?

Webmaster Ged Bauer gives Macromedia's Fireworks a try to determine whether it is the "all-in-one-be-all-end-all" web graphics application that it claims to be.

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Below The Digital Radar

Kit Laybourne muses about the evolution of independent animation and looks "below the radar" for the growth of new emerging domains of digital animation.

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It Takes Three to Tango

Animation World Magazine's annual Jobs & Education issue includes a survey of pointed questions taking a look at the relationship between educators, industry representatives and students. School profiles are included.

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The Animation World in the Library of Congress

As part of Animation World Magazine's monthly Hidden Treasures column on archives, Patrick Loughney, Ph.D. defines what animation treasures lie behind the massive doors of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C

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ASIFA And Festivals: A Changing Relationship

In the wake of Annecy going annual,ASIFA International president Michel Ocelot discusses the history and significance of ASIFA's selective sponsorship and patronage of international animation festivals

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Tooning in the 1998 Fall Season

Joseph K. Bevilacqua highlights what's new in animation for the U.S. 1998/99 television season, from CBS to Cartoon Network.

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Here's A How de do Diary: March

The first installment of Barry Purves' production diary as he chronicles producing a series of animated shorts for Channel 4. An Animation World Magazine exclusive.

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