Animation World Magazine, Issue 2.9, December 1997


This Month's Contributors

Note: Readers may contact any Animation World Magazine contributor by sending an email to editor@awn.com.

Melissa Chimovitz is a freelance writer with a predilection towards run-on-sentences. Armed with a degree in photography from Rhode Island School of Design, a portfolio of handmade puppets, a short animated film (Eat'm Up: A Very Short Film About Love [1997]), and a determination to become a great animator, she will enter Cal Arts' Masters Program for Experimental Animation in September 1998. In the meantime, she lives happily in Brooklyn, New York, where she is participating in Janie Geiser's soon-to-be-named puppetry lab and working on a new film.

Frédérique Doumic is MILIA's special consultant in collaborative ventures between animation producers and interactive, gaming companies.

Edgar Dutka
is a scriptwriter, animation historian and professor at The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

Mike Dietz is an animator and "ditch digger" at The Neverhood.

Christopher Harz is a multimedia consultant in online simulation and gaming. He helped develop the military's massive-scale online war games, and is now working on 3-D multiplayer web sites.

Wendy Jackson is Associate Editor of Animation World Magazine.

Heather Kenyon is Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Magazine.

Sayoko Kinoshita is director of the Hiroshima International Animation Festival in Japan.

Natalya Loukinykh, author and TV producer, graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University. Since 1991 she has worked with the organizing group of the KROK International Animation Festival, as press-attache and film selector. She is also director of Animatheka, a documentary TV program about animation.

Mark Morrison, to his astonishment, designs computer games for a living. He was the lead writer on The Dame Was Loaded, and script editor on the Galax-Arena prototype for Gameplay 21. He currently works at Beam Software, and is worried he might have gone too easy on them.

Don Perro is an animator and designer currently coordinating the Commercial Animation Program at Capilano College in North Vancouver, Canada. He has made one experimental film in his life: a frame by frame tour of his 1977 KZ 650 motorcycle using a macro lens, one inch from the bike. It was never shown to anyone.

Bill Plympton is an award-winning independent animator based in New York. His new feature film, I Married A Strange Person, is currently touring the festival circuit, and was shown most recently at the Sitges Festival. Bill Plympton's web site can be seen in AWN's Animation Village at http://www.awn.com/plymptoons

Daniel Rein is currently a Super 80 pilot flying domestic, U.S. routes with American Airlines. He has 800 flight hours in the F-16 A and C model Fighting Falcon, 600 hours in the F-15C Eagle and 155 hours in the F-5E Tiger II.

Tim Samoff is a Producer at Sound Source Interactive, where he has taken part in the creation of over 20 licensed edutainment titles, screen savers, and games including, Babe Interactive MovieBook, Free Willy 2 Interactive MovieBook, The Hercules & Xena Learning Adventure, and the Babylon 5 Limited Edition Entertainment Utility. He is currently producing a 3-D adventure game sequel to the James Cameron film, The Abyss.

Gunnar Strøm is Associate Professor at Volda College in Norway, where he is head of the animation department. He has published a number of books on animation and music videos. He is president of ASIFA Norway, and a board member and former secretary general of ASIFA International.

Joseph Szadkowski writes on various aspects of popular culture and is a columnist for The Washington Times.

Pamela Kleibrink Thompson
is an independent recruiter. Her past clients include Walt Disney Feature Animation, Fox Feature Animation, and Dream Quest Images and Engineering Animation Inc. and interactive companies such as Raven Software, Hollywood On Line, Activision, and Adrenalin Entertainment. Thompson is also a consultant to colleges and universities helping them design their animation training programs. As manager of art at Virgin Interactive Entertainment, she established the art department, recruiting, hiring and training 24 artists, many with no previous computer experience. Her animation production background includes features such as Bebe's Kids, the Fox television series The Simpsons, and the original Amazing Stories episode of Family Dog. Thompson is a founding member of Women in Animation and active in ASIFA. Her articles on animation, business and management topics have appeared in over 40 periodicals. She is currently writing a book called The Animation Job Hunter's Guide.

Joe Toledo is a project manager for the Jamison/Gold Interactive Agency and was recently named Resident Simpsons Expert to the Animation World Staff. He spends his free time not unlike The Simpsons' Comic Book Guy, but at a lot fewer Dr. Who Marathons.



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