The Online Flash Film Festival is set up to highlight the ever-growing community of Flash artists. The event will screen 90 films, e-art and multimedia exhibits, conferences, seminaries and software presentations. DESERT will present avant-garde and experimental music to images. ONART.V1 will consist of several computer rooms set up for visitors to create work at the festival.
November 12 - 17, 2001. Barcelona, Spain
Entry Deadline: July 15, 2001
October 4 - 7, 2001. Palavas les Flots/Montpelier, France
Entry Deadline: July 14, 2001
October 24 - 26, 2001. Singapore
November 28 30, 2001. Hong Kong, China.
CASBAA 2001 is Asia's premier convention for the cable and satellite broadcasting industry. Held annually, this year's CASBAA convention is all about the business of doing business inside the new economy and making it work! For more information, contact Aslam Sardar, Tel: ++ 65 322 2729; Fax: ++ 65 226 3264; Email: aslam.sardar@terrapinn.com; or Web: www.casbaa2001.com
May 26 - 31, 2001. Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.A.
April 2002. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Entry Deadline: December 1, 2000
April 11 May 9, 2001. New York, New York, U.S.A.
May 25 - 26, 2001. North Hollywood, California, U.S.A.
May 4 - 10, 2001. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
May 30, 2001. San Francisco, California USA
May 17 19, 2001. Bochum, Germany
The Internationales Bochumer Videofestival will present a selection of fiction, documentary and experimental videos. Awards include three Jury Awards, an Audience Award and Special Prizes. Other features include workshops, interactive CD-ROM art, video installations and conferences. For more information contact AStA-Videofestival, Universitätsstraße 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany; Tel.: ++ 49 234 3226902; Fax: ++ 49 234 701623; E-mail: videofestival@ruhr-uni-bochum.de; or Web: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/videofestival
May 19, 2001. Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
The Nordic and Baltic Animation Festival is a celebration of animation of all styles from around the world. The event is planning a tribute to THE SIMPSONS. The festival presents Nordic and Baltic films in competition, Nordic and Baltic Panorama, International highlights, tributes, exhibitions and much more.
MAC 3D NY, a Mac 3D Artist Association, is hosting meetings every other month at the Apple Marketing Center in New York City. The next meeting will be held Wednesday, May 2, 2001 at 6:00 pm. The topic is: Architecture and 3D/CAD Industrial Design, with guests from Form-Z, Architosh and Artlantis. The Apple Marketing Center is located at 53rd Street at Lexington Avenue, on the 29th floor of the Citicorp building.
Animagic Entertainment has begun production on BALLOONATIKS, a new comic-action adventure CGI series being produced by The Krislin Company. The first episode is slated to show in October 2001 at MIPCOM. According to series producer Walk Kubiak (TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, THE SMURFS), We have successfully developed a 3D look that challenges in quality and richness any high-end CGI-produced feature film, while working within the constraints of a typical Saturday morning budget. Grammy award-winner Ray Parker Jr. composed the theme song and will provide music for the series.
Fox Kids Network has announced that the new animated series MEDABOT will be joining their Fall 2001 lineup. Fox has ordered 26 episodes of the show, being produced by Nelvana Limited, in association with NAS/Kodansha. The series is set in 2122 A.D., when every kid owns a high performance Medabot, a pet robot with artificial intelligence and strength exclusively controlled by its owner. Kids compete with each other in Robattles pitting Medabot against Medabot. MEDABOT sets the standard for robot-themed action series, said Toper Taylor, president, Nelvana Communications.
Michael Dudok de Wit, who won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short for his acclaimed film FATHER AND DAUGHTER, has donated to charity the high definition television he won for giving the shortest acceptance speech (18 seconds) at the Oscar awards ceremony. Dudok de Wit, who lives in London, donated the television to Hollygrove, L.A.s oldest non-sectarian residential facility for abused children. Founded in 1880 as the Los Angeles Orphans Home Society, Hollygrove has served over 15,000 orphaned, abused and neglected children.
Premiering on the IFILM Network this week is DAMNED, a new film by Alex Crouch. Most consider a game of chess to be a fun, harmless way to pass the time, but nobody said it was fun for the pieces on the board! Witness the horrible fate of one group of chess pieces as they're thrown into the jaws of death. These guys know the true meaning of the word "Damned!" Find this short at: www.ifilm.com/ifilm/skeletons/film_detail/0,1263,1104743,00.html. .
eLance Inc., a professional services marketplace, has announced a new Website for Macromedia Flash development and usability services. Powered by eLance, the companys platform for Web-based outsourcing, the site, named the eLance Rich-Media Market (featuring Macromedia Flash services), lets visitors quickly purchase Flash related services for a fixed-price. The new service will allow Web designers and other Internet content creators the ability to get quick, affordable access to high quality Flash development professionals.
Greg Boegner has been named senior vice president and general manager of eKids Internet, a private, secure Internet-based network designed especially for children. eKids is one of a number of such networks developed by SilverTech, Inc., creator of Private Internet Engine (P.I.E.) technology, founded in February 1997 by former telecommunications executive, El St. John. Other company vertical markets include eDistributors, eLawyer, eUniversity, eShipping, eFinance, eGovernment and eMedicine.
Animation and visual effects house Celluloid Studios has recently completed a series of 30-second Bubble Boys spots for Budweiser. The four commercials, The Agent, Agent Phil, Holdouts and Negotiator, are the latest in an ongoing series of Budweiser commercials done by the company, and continue the narrative of two mechanical, tabletop hockey players, Murph and La Rue. The humorous ads again focus on their pursuit of being as famous as hockey legend Wayne Gretzky.
Creative design boutique EyeballNYC has teamed with Showtime Networks recently launched ShoNext digital cable channel to produce the 12-episode TV/Web series DISC JOCKEY, an innovative, mixed-media exploration of emerging American DJs. Each two-minute segment combines a documentary-style DJ interview with an animated superhero sequence. Music downloads, DJ tour schedules and other material are available on the Website. "Showtime was very clear in its creative direction," said EyeballNYC director Alex Moulton, who is also a DJ.
Digital studio Spontaneous Combustion has created the title design and end logo animation for a pool of 30-second spots, with 15-second lifts, for T.J. MAXXs Maxximum Stories campaign, which rolled out nationwide on March 18, 2001. The ads, tagged You should go, show women talking about why they love T.J. MAXX. According to design director Dana Yee, "Because the tag is You should go, we wanted to parlay a sense of motion with the typography.
The International Animation Festival of Brazil, Anima Mundi, presents its second Web animation competition, Anima Mundi Web. The competition is open to all international works in Flash format and under 500 K. The deadline for entries is June 1, 2001. There is no entry fee. The festival will pre-select twenty works that will be displayed on the festival Website for viewing and voting from June 15 to July 20, 2001. Viewers can vote for the public prize. A group of animation professionals will be invited by the curators of Anima Mundi Web to grant the professional prize.
