This Week At Animation World Magazine
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...
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The Acrobat Issue Of Animation World Magazine Is Now Online!
The February Acrobat issue of Animation World Magazine is now online! In the featured articles...
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Job Opportunities For Animators, Storyboard Artists, Producers, And More
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania's A.C.Coy is looking for a SENIOR MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPER . . . Hollywood, California's Acme Filmworks is looking for a CG ARTIST . . . B1 Media is looking for a PRODUCER and a PRODUCTION MANAGER . . . New Paltz, New York's BASSARTS is looking for an AGENT . . . blackSHEEP is looking for a 2D/3D ANIMATOR & DIGITAL PRODUCTION TEAM . . . Classic Black is looking for a PROGRAM DEVELOPER . . . Toronto, Ontario's Cuppa Coffee Animation is looking for a STOP MOTION ANIMATOR . . . London, England's Datascope Recruitment is
Te Wei and Chinese Animation: Inseparable, Incomparable
John A. Lent and Xu Ying report their experiences from visiting Chinaand speaking with one of China's leading artists -- animation-relatedor otherwise -- Te Wei, and discussing the nation's rocky past andquickly changing future.
Cartoons On The Bay 2002 Opens Festival With Lilo & Stitch
Thursday, April 18 - Monday, April 22, 2002. Positano, Italy. Cartoons on the Bay, the International Festival and Conference of Television Animation is opening this year's festival on the evening of April 18th with the Italian premiere of Disney's highly-anticipated animated feature film "Lilo & Stitch." Promoted by Rai and conceived and organized by Rai Trade, the festival is an international event with awards, workshops, lectures and events centering on the ever-changing world of television animation. Actor Rowan Atkinson will be on hand to present his animated alter-ego "Mr.
Plympton's Mutant Aliens Premieres In New York
Bill Plympton's fourth animated feature, was an Official Selection of the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and the Grand Prize winner at the 2001 Annecy Animation Festival.
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Cartoon Movie
Begins: March 14, 2002
The fourth edition of the CARTOON MOVIE will take place in Potsdam/Babelsberg (Germany) from 14 to 16 March 2002.
In Event Types: Conferences, Animation
BrainCamp
Begins: March 14, 2002
Please Note - This is simply an up-date of a prior listing. We have moved. Our new address is:BrainCampc/o Howard Leib271 Madison AvenueSuite 200New York, NY 10016
Phone 212-545-9559fax 212-545-0909
everything else remains the same
In Event Types: Conferences, Seminars / Workshops, Animation, Live Action, New Media, Short Films, Television
BrainCamp 6
Begins: March 14, 2002
Bra!nCamp is the only high-level, cross-media conference specifically geared to major players in children
Dragonball Goes Live For Fox
Twentieth Century Fox has acquired the rights to DRAGONBALL and plans to produce a live-action feature film based on the manga property. DRAGONBALL began as a graphic novel and has become a multimedia phenomenon, including home video, video games and the popular DRAGONBALL Z animated series currently airing on Cartoon Network. The various DRAGONBALL properties relate an epic story between good and evil, involving super-powerful beings from another planet, known as the Saiyans, who protect Earth from the forces of darkness.
Latin American Broadcasters Add Some Salsa
Miami-based Latin American distribution outfit Salsa Entertainment has concluded several deals with leading broadcasters throughout the Latin American region. Puerto Rican broadcaster Telemundo has picked up the live-action/animation preschool series SALTYS LIGHTHOUSE (40 x 30 min) from Sunbow Entertainment.
R!OT Creates Hot Effects For Queen Of The Damned
Santa Monica-based visual effects house R!OT recently created visual effects shots for the current Warner Bros. release QUEEN OF THE DAMNED. The 114-shot workload of 3D computer graphics, digital matte paintings and 2D compositing was completed using SoftImage|XSI, Maya and Inferno as well as Armada, R!OTs artificial intelligence system (AI) for character/object animation and texture management. Originally used for the studios work on THE ONE, the application was co-developed by R!OT and SoftImage as a solution for scenes with extensive animated geometry.
Two New Series To Debut On Cartoon Network In 2002
Cartoon Network has announced two original series premieres in 2002: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ROBOT JONES? and CODENAME: KIDS NEXT DOOR. Scheduled to debut in July 2002, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ROBOT JONES? is set in the retro-1980s future where robots have become commonplace. Robot Jones is a special robot, who is programmed with basic emotions that he doesnt quite have a handle on. His socially awkward interactions with his family, friends and enemies, form the basis of the series.
Stephen Mann Joins Hornet As CG Supervisor
Media company Hornet Inc. has hired Stephen Mann as CG supervisor. Mann has an extensive background in computer animation and serves as an adjunct professor and Maya instructor for the department of computer art at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He recently served as digital effects supervisor for Kleiser-Walczak, where he handled visual effects work for commercials and feature films.
Live Chat with Victor Navone
Begins: March 13, 2002
We have organized another great Live Chat at www.CGChat.com.
Our new guest is Victor Navone, popular computer animator and artist. His animation, "Alien Song", got the attention of Pixar Animation Studios, where he is now employed as an animator. His most recent work can be found in "Monsters, Inc.", Pixar's new feature film.
For more information on Victor Navone visit his website at www.navone.org
The chat is held on Tuesday March 19th, 2002 . (Pick your Time Zone) 7:00 PM Pacific Standard Time 10:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
NATPE 2002 -- One Man's Opinion
Becoming an animation producer is no easy task but Gerard Raiti offers a few pointers from the folks at Duck Soup Studios, Renegade Animation and Wild Brain, Inc., on how you can get in the door and start to succeed.
Not The NATPE We Remember
NATPE 2002 was a breaking point for the event. Split into two different venues with a steep decline in attendance, some said it was the end...but others just shrugged and did their usual business. How bad is it? Adam Snyder reports.
TV-Loonland Makes Premiere Deal With France 5
Animation producer and distributor TV-Loonland has sold three preschool properties LITTLE GHOSTS (39 x 7 min), CONNIE THE COW (52 x 7 min) and HENRY'S WORLD (26 x 11 min), to public broadcaster France 5. The channel, which until recently was called La Cinquième, is recognized for being France's primary broadcaster of preschool programming and for providing its young audiences with television that promotes learning through play. LITTLE GHOSTS is a co-production between TV-Loonland and its subsidiary, UK animation studio Telemagination.
Electric Rain Offers Swift Import Capabilities To USAnimation
Electric Rain, Inc. has released a special edition of their Swift 3D plug-in line, which includes Swift 3D MAX and Swift 3D LW. This special edition offers an additional rendering format allowing users of Discreet 3ds max and NewTek LightWave 3D to export their scenes to a format that imports natively into USAnimation.
Chill With The Ice Age Website
If you haven't already, whet your appetite for Chris Wedge's feature film ICE AGE by visiting its "cool" Website at www.iceagemovie.com. 20th Century Fox and Internet consulting and development firm Genex have partnered on the site, which gives users an introduction to and interaction with the key characters from the film. The ICE AGE site chronicles the adventures of Scrat, a sabertooth squirrel who needs the help of online players to locate acorns, his key to surviving the Ice Age.
Cartoon Network Announces Its Fall Programming Slate
In addition to the more than 100 new episodes of original programs that are currently in production for 2002-2003, including 26 episodes each of COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG and ED, EDD N EDDY, JUSTICE LEAGUE (26 half-hours), POWERPUFF GIRLS (20 half-hours), SAMURAI JACK (26 half-hours) and GRIM & EVIL (13 new episodes), Cartoon Network will debut two new series in 2002 and eight new series pilots. The network will also premiere HAMTARO, a popular Japanese series the network recently acquired from ShoPro USA.
Nick Premieres Five New Shows
The first RUGRATS spin-off series and the TV series debut of the Oscar-nominated feature film JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS will headline five new animated series scheduled to launch on Nickelodeon during the 2002-2003 season. In addition to the RUGRATS spin-off ANGELICA AND SUSIE'S SCHOOL DAZE, and the premiere of THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS, Nickelodeon will also debut the comic tales of DANNY PHANTOM, a ghost-fighting kid superhero, MY NEIGHBOR IS A TEENAGE ROBOT, about, you guessed it, a teenaged robot and MAX AND RUBY, a new series for the Nick Jr. crowd.
Clifford Is Big At Daytime Emmy Nominations
The 29th Annual Daytime Emmy Award nominees were announced on March 13, 2002 and Scholastic Productions CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG walked away with five nominations, topping all other animated shows. Close behind was another PBS series, ARTHUR, which tied with The WBs JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES at three nominations each. Nicks DORA THE EXPLORER nabbed two noms including one for Outstanding Children's Animated Program.
Coming Out Of The Ice Age
John C. Donkin, Blue Sky's associate producer, reminisces on how the studio transformed itself from a small boutique into a major feature film contender.
Puppets Go Wild, Al Roker Is Stunned
London-based stop-motion animation production company Loose Moose was responsible for one of the coolest ads that debuted during the Super Bowl - the BRISK iced tea spot featuring a puppet uprising. The companys latest commercial in the six year Pepsi-Lipton BRISK campaign for J. Walter Thompson, New York is a 60-second spot called "DeVito," starring a puppet Danny DeVito and featuring the actor as his own voice talent. Co-stars were the regular cast of BRISK characters including Burgess Meredith, Phil Morris (the "Jackie Chiles" character from SEINFELD) and James Brown.
