February 1998 Vol. 2, No. 11
Stop Motion and Motion Capture | Surveys | The Student Corner | Festivals and Events | Films | Books | Software | Hidden Treasures | News | Comics
Editor's Notebook
Animation and its many changing faces...
Letters: editor@awn.com
STOP-MOTION & MOTION-CAPTURE
Who's Data Is That Anyway?
Gregory Peter Panos, founding co-director of the Performance Animation
Society, describes a new frontier of dilemmas, the politics of performance
animation.
Boldly Throwing Down the Gauntlet
In our premier issue, acclaimed stop-motion animator
Barry J.C. Purves shared his sentiments on the coming of the computer.
Now Barry's back to share his thoughts on the last two years that have
been both exhilarating and disappointing for him.
A Conversation With...
In a small, quiet cafe, motion-capture pioneer Chris Walker and outrageous
stop-motion animator Corky Quakenbush got together for lunch and discovered
that even though their techniques may appear to be night and day, they
actually have a lot in common.
At Last, Foam Puppet Fabrication
Explained!
How does one build an armature from scratch and end up with a professional
foam puppet? Tom Brierton is here to take us through the steps and offer
advice.
Little Big Estonia: The Nukufilm
Studio
On the 40th anniversary of Estonia's Nukufilm, Heikki
Jokinen went for a visit to profile the puppet animation studio and their
place in the post-Soviet world.
Wallace & Gromit Spur Worldwide
Licensing Activity
Karen Raugust takes a look at the marketing machine behind everyone's favorite
clay characters, Wallace & Gromit.
Performance Animation: Behind
the Character
Heather Kenyon goes behind the scenes of Medialab Studio LA to meet the
people who create real-time, motion-captured characters by using a technique
the studio calls "computer puppetry."
SURVEYS
How'd They Do That?: Stop-Motion
Secrets Revealed
We asked six stop-motion maestros to reveal a few
tricks of the trade. Henry Selick, Barry Purves, David Fain, Andrew Ruhemann,
Voltaire and Mikk Rand responded with an odd assortment of ingredients
that may be useful to you in your next stop-motion film.
THE STUDENT CORNER
California Summer School for the
Arts: More Than an Education
Jon Roslyn profiles an in-depth, unique summer school program designed
for extremely talented and driven artistic youths.
FESTIVALS, EVENTS
The Havana Connection (Available in
Portugese and English)
Cesar Coelho takes us to the most important film
event in Latin cinema, The 19th International Festival of New Latin-American
Cinema, held in Havana, Cuba.
NATPE: It's A Tough Market But
Someone is Selling...
Heather Kenyon reports on NATPE 1998's animated shows and the attending
companies' goals. It's not just a syndicator's show anymore.
The World Animation Celebration:
Here It Comes
Joy Kennelly highlights the different events of the
World Animation Celebration which will be held in Pasadena, California
February 16-21.
FILMS
His Mother's Voice:
Dennis Tupicoff's New Documentary
Emru Townsend reviews Dennis Tupicoff's new animated documentary, His
Mother's Voice, an exploration of an unexpected death.
BOOKS
Forbidden Animation: A Valuable
Contribution
Mark Langer reviews Karl Cohen's new book, Forbidden Animation: Censored
Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America, a catalogue of censorship.
Digital Cinematography: A Good
Place to Start
Bill Fleming reviews Ben de Leeuw's Digital Cinematography, a book
that discusses the art of storytelling in 3-D computer animation.
SOFTWARE
The New Maya Sets Sail
On February 1, Alias|Wavefront is beginning to ship
their latest animation software, Maya and Maya Artisan. Max Sims is here
to tell us how it compares and what we can expect from this new tool.
HIDDEN TREASURES
The International Museum of Cartoon
Art
Relocated from New York City, a unique collection of original cartoon art
exists in Boca Raton, Florida. From comic books and strips to magazine
illustrations, find out why it is worth the trip...
NEWS
Animation World News
PDI signs on for Shrek, Nick says "Oh Yeah!" to shorts
and we say good-bye to Mae Questel, Cameron Guess and Lillian Bounds Disney.
On A Desert Island With. . . .Movers
and Shakers
Corky Quakenbush, Chris Walker and Barry Purves.
AWN COMICS
Dirdy Birdy
by John Dilworth
Next Issue's Highlights
This Month's Contributors
Cover: Motion-capture animation technology
makes anything possible. Protozoa created a 3-D "Virtual Bill Clinton"
for a special on MTV called, "The State of Music Videos," which
aired on the cable network after the President's annual "State of
the Union" address on January 27, 1998. MTV plans to use the real-time
animated character for live broadcast in the future. The "Virtual
Bill" image is courtesy of and © MTV Networks.
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