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T H E A W N S P O T L I G H T
YOUR WEEKLY GUIDE TO ANIMATION WORLD NETWORK AND AFFILIATE PUBLICATIONS
Thursday, May 4, 2000
http://www.awn.com
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1. A W N H E A D L I N E N E W S I N
B R I E F
2. S I T E A N D A F F I L I A T E N E W S
* The May Issue Of Animation World Magazine Is Now Available:
This Month: Independent Animators and Recruiting & Jobs.
* Job Opportunities For Animators, Digital Artists, Directors,
Instructors And More.
* Annecy Festival's 40th Anniversary Program.
* New At Visual Magic Magazine.
* New Additions To AWN's Calendar Of Events.
3. H O T S P O T S
* Plympton's Comic Of The Week.
* This Week's Animation Trivia Quiz.
* This Week's Special Feature In AWN's Ever Expanding Store:
Masters Of Russian Animation On DVD And New Digitally
Remastered Norstein films.
4. U P C O M I N G E V E N T S I N A N I M A T I
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Here is a selection of the top stories currently covered in AWN's
Headline News.
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* Business
Filmmakers Call Foul To Canadian TV Fund
Project: Messiah's New Reincarnation
Cinar Employees Barred From Trading
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* Events
Singapore Animation Fiesta 2000
AnimeOnline Festival
Swatch & AtomFilms Launch Flash Talent Search
Bill Plympton's Guilty Pleasures At WAC
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* Films
Pokemon & Stuart Struggle For International BO
It's Raining Stars For Cats & Dogs
U-571 Sinks The New Recruits At US BO
El Dorado Falls To Five
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* Internet and Interactive
Two Nova Scotia Guys Net Spielberg Deal
Bunny Grenade Explodes Onto Web
Ben Stein Wins With Shockwave
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* Licensing
Hasbro Builds With Bob
Power Puffed Soundtrack
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* People
DEN's Programming VP Vamooses
Tsujihara Takes Over Entertaindom
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* Television
Parker & Stone's 3 Year Deal
Marx Brothers Toon Stopped By Heirs
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up-and-coming animators as well as seasoned professionals. And
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2. S I T E A N D A F F I L I A T E S
N E W S
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* THE MAY ISSUE OF ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE IS NOW ON-LINE!
This month we take a look at Independent Animators and Recruiting &
Jobs. We have a profile of Ladislav Starewicz and Simon Pummell.
Martin "Dr. Toon" Goodman draws some correlations between two
independents named JohnSguaranteed you'll be surprised. Heather
Kenyon reveals that whether used by established filmmakers or
up-and-coming youngsters, the Internet is proving to be a very
versatile tool helping everyone gain a little more freedom and
independence. Plus, with all the hubbub recently in Los Angeles about
artists being out of work, runaway productions and the well attended
PBS affiliate station picket, Heather Kenyon sat down with Tom Sito
to talk. Larry Lauria touches base with DreamWorks' Frank Gladstone
to learn the latest on what studios expect to see in portfolios, and
Larry also offers some college finding tips to help prospective
students make the right choices for them. Plus, there's much, much
more like film and event reviews. Check it out for the full story.
- Entomology and Animation: A Portrait of An Early Master Ladislaw Starewicz
Eric Schneider profiles the man who brought stop-motion animation to
Russia, Ladislaw Starewicz. Utilizing puppet beetles and dragonflies,
he created films which still speak to us today. Includes Quicktime
movie clips!
--> http://www.awn.com/mag/issue5.02/5.02pages/schneiderstarewicz.php3
- The Surreal World of Simon Pummell
Equally perverse, disturbing and intellectual, the films of Simon
Pummell always generate discussion and introspection as they walk the
line between experimental non-linear impressions and narrative
structure. Includes Quicktime movie clips!
--> http://www.awn.com/mag/issue5.02/5.02pages/kenyonpummell.php3
- Pulling Yourself Together: The Professional Portfolio
Larry Lauria touches base with DreamWorks' Frank Gladstone to learn
the latest on what studios expect to see in portfolios.
--> http://www.awn.com/mag/issue5.02/5.02pages/luriaportfolio.php3
- The Hottest Family in Animated TV: Betty and Mickey Paraskevas
Raymond Palma chats with the mother-son team of Betty and Mickey
Paraskevas, whose children's books are turning into television shows
like wildfire.
--> http://www.awn.com/mag/issue5.02/5.02pages/palmatv.php3
- India's Expanding Horizons Part III
Jayanti Sen finishes up her profile of animation in India by
profiling the current projects, companies and artists that are
helping to build India into an animation nation of force.
--> http://www.awn.com/mag/issue5.02/5.02pages/senindiaIII.php3
- Cartoons On The Bay: On The Internet Front
Annick Teninge journeyed to television's festival in Positano, Italy,
only to find that they were talking about (what else?) but the
Internet.
--> http://www.awn.com/mag/issue5.02/5.02pages/teningebay.php3
- The 2000 British Animation Awards
The British Animation Awards brought the U.K. animation population
out for the night. Andrew Osmond was there and reports with this
colorful scrapbook.
--> http://www.awn.com/mag/issue5.02/5.02pages/osmondBAA.php3
- The Problem With Bad Teeth
European feature animation producers and filmmakers gathered in
Potsdam to discuss funding and distribution partnerships and deals.
Heikki Jokinen reports on Cartoon's latest coup.
--> http://www.awn.com/mag/issue5.02/5.02pages/jokinencartmov.php3
- The 3rd Brisbane International Animation Festival
Stephen Lynch reports from Australia's foremost animation festival.
--> http://www.awn.com/mag/issue5.02/5.02pages/lynchbrisbane.php3
A full Table of Contents is available at:
--> http://www.awn.com/mag
* JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR ANIMATORS, DIGITAL ARTISTS, DIRECTORS,
INSTRUCTORS AND MORE.
Los Angeles, California-based Unbound Studios, an Internet animation
and gaming company, is looking for 2D/FLASH ANIMATORS, an ANIMATION
DIRECTOR and TRADITIONAL ANIMATORS. . . Sherman Oaks,
California-based Animation Creations, an Animation Workshop, is
looking for an ANIMATION INSTRUCTOR/ASSISTANT. . . Toronto,
Canada-based Nelvana is looking for traditional ANIMATORS for a new
series animated in Flash, as well as a DIRECTOR and STORYBOARD
ARTISTS. . . Sylmar, California-based SportsPage.com, an
Internet-based sports and entertainment company, is looking for an
ASSISTANT ANIMATOR/COMPOSITOR, a BACKGROUND DESIGNER/PAINTER, a FLASH
ANIMATOR and a STORYBOARD ARTIST for weekly Flash-based,
sports-themed cartoons. . . Los Angeles, California-based Icebox,
Inc., an Internet company creating original animation series for the
Web, is looking for BG/LAYOUT ARTISTS, CHARACTER DESIGNERS, CLEANUP
ARTISTS, COLOR STYLISTS, FLASH ANIMATORS, GRAPHIC ARTISTS/ADOBE
ILLUSTRATOR ARTISTS, PROP DESIGNERS and STORYBOARD ARTISTS. . .
Celbridge, Ireland-based The Forge Studios Ltd. is looking for
CHARACTER ANIMATORS that specialize in either realistic human
animation, realistic animals or realistic children. . . Toronto,
Canada-based Nitromedia Communications, a New Media company using
Flash animation for educational and entertainment purposes, is
looking for a CHARACTER ANIMATOR (FLASH). . . Winter Park,
Florida-based Full Sail Real World Education, an accredited
entertainment technology institution, is looking for COURSE
DIRECTOR/LAB INSTRUCTORS for their Computer Animation Degree Program.
. . Maitland, Florida-based OutStart Inc., an e-learning technology
and services start-up, is looking for a GRAPHIC DESIGNER/MULTIMEDIA
ARTIST. . . Savannah, Georgia-based Savannah College of Art and
Design is looking for a PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER ART. . . Burbank,
California-based Walt Disney Feature Animation is looking for a SCENE
SET UP ADMINISTRATOR and a SOFTWARE DEVELOPER.
For more information about these and other jobs, check out AWN's
Career Connections, the online Animation Job Fair:
--> http://www2.awn.com/career
* ANNECY FESTIVAL'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM.
For its 2000 edition and its 40th anniversary (June 5-10, 2000), the
Annecy International Animated Film Festival received 1,092 films (995
in 1999) from 52 countries. 279 of them, representing 36 countries,
have been selected for official competition with 207 in competition
and 72 in panorama. The selection committee members were: Barbel
Neubauer (filmmaker, Germany), Luca Raffaelli (journalist, Italy),
Jannik Hastrup (filmmaker, Denmark) and Francois Darrasse (teacher,
France) for short and feature films; Cristina Brandner Garcia
(Neptuno, Spain), Andre de Semlyen (Cartoon Network, France) and John
Bullivant (TV Looneland, UK) for TV and commissioned films; Claire
Fouquet (teacher/filmmaker, France), Lydia Boutot (Prix
Pixel-Imagina, France) and Jean-Luc Slock (Camera Enfants Admis,
Belgium) for student and graduation films. Festival guests include
Mr. Roy E. Disney, as Honorary President of this 24th edition, John
Lasseter, Jimmy Murakami and more. Annecy 2000 will present a
10-program retrospective of one century of frame by frame cinema,
under the aegis of prestigious animation historian Giannalberto
Bendazzi, and a program of the Annecy Grand Prix winners since 1960.
Other events include the participation of triple Oscar-winning
animator Richard Williams, with a three-day Animation Masterclass on
the principles of animation. The MIFA expo will be open June 7-10,
2000, and feature a sizable new technologies area. Conferences
include "The Future Of Animation On The Web," "Motion-Capture:
Animation or Not Animation," "Short Fiction Films, Goodbye to the
20th Century" and "Franco-Spanish Co-Productions." For more
information and registration forms, visit http://www.annecy.org,
call
(+33.4).50.10.09.00, or fax (+33.4).50.10.09.70.
* NEW AT VISUAL MAGIC MAGAZINE.
Check out the latest "behind the scenes" features and tutorials from
Visual Magic Magazine. In "Cinema 4D XL 6 Reviewed," Adam Watkins
takes a look at the latest offering from MAXON - their eagerly
awaited Cinema 4D XL version 6.
--> http://visualmagic.awn.com/vmag/article.php3?article_no=30
* NEW ADDITIONS TO AWN'S CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
This week's updates to the Calendar of Events includes the Singapore
Animation Fiesta in June 2000, and the first AnimeOnline Festival in
Los Angeles in July 2000. With multiple search capabilities, AWN's
new calendar of events gives you a customized way to look through the
upcoming events - by Name, Location, Entry Deadline, Category, Event
Type and more. Use it to stay abreast of animation related activities
across the globe. If you know of animation related events that we
don't have listed, send an email with the pertinent facts to
rick@awn.com. We'd love to publish your event
information for free!
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3. H O T S P O T S
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* PLYMPTON'S COMIC OF THE WEEK.
Plympton's new series of comics extracted from the comic book,
"Sleazy Cartoons of Bill Plympton," is for ADULTS ONLY. A new
(REALLY!) outrageous comic by Bill Plympton can be found each Friday
at:
--> http://www.awn.com/plympton
* THIS WEEK'S ANIMATION TRIVIA QUIZ.
Test your skills and challenge your brain with AWN's Animation Trivia
Quiz. This week, we're asking questions about award winners. Who is
the female animator who won the 1980 Winsor McCay lifetime
achievement award? What is the name of the new stop-motion feature by
Oscar winner Nick Park? Which film was not an original IMAX release?
Good luck...you'll need it!
--> http://www2.awn.com/quiz
* THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL FEATURES IN AWN'S EVER EXPANDING STORE:
Masters Of Russian Animation On DVD And New Digitally Remastered
Norstein Films.
"The Masters of Russian Animation," an extraordinary collection of
Russia's most important animated short films, is now available on
DVD! Volume 1 includes ten films from directors Fyodor Kitruk, Vadim
Kurchevsky, Andrei Khrjanovsky, Rasa Strautmane, Yefim Gamburg,
Andrei Khrjanovsky, Nikolai Serebryakov and Anatoly Petrov. In All,
the Russian collection includes seven videotapes, available
individually and in 3- or 7-tape packages. Volume 1 is now available
on DVD for $24.95 plus s/h. Volume 2 will be released on DVD on May
16, 2000. Volume 3 in July and Volume 4 in September, 2000 will
follow.
--> http://www.awn.com/awnstore/products.php3?pcat=Videos&item_no=IJ1018
"Volume 5 - The Norstein Collection" remastered! All of the films
have been digitally restored in Los Angeles under the supervision of
Yuri Norstein and his late cinematographer Alexender Zhukovsly. The
volume includes all of Norstein's works: "Battle Of Kerjenets" (with
Ivanov-Vano), "Rabbit And Fox," "25th - First Day," "Heron And
Crane," "Hedgehog In The Fog" and "Tale Of Tales."
--> http://www.awn.com/awnstore/products.php3?pcat=Videos&item_no=IJ1005
The AWN Store also offers Limited Edition Autographed Prints from
Yuri Norstein's "Tales of Tales" and "Hedgehog in the Fog." Each
print, made in Russia from the drawings Norstein used to develop his
characters, is hand-signed by Norstein. Most of the proceeds from
sales will go to help finance the ongoing production of "Overcoat,"
Norstein's famous work in progress. He began "Overcoat," which is
based on a famous story by Nikolai Gogol, after completing "Tale of
Tales" in 1978. This is a very limited offer and is reasonably priced
at $100.00 each. Some prints have sold out so act soon.
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4. U P CO M I N G E V E N T S I N A N I M A T I O N
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* Friday, April 28 - Saturday, April 29, 2000. Glendale, California, U.S.A.
The Merce Cunningham Dance Company, one of the most influential
companies operating in modern dance in this century, is presenting
the Los Angeles area premiere of BIPED.
--> http://www2.awn.com/spotlight/events.php3?item=2445
* Wednesday, May 3 - Sunday, May 7, 2000. Fredrikstad, Norway.
The Nordic and Baltic Animation Festival Fredrikstad invites both
animators and spectators to take part in five days of animated fun to
promote the screening and understanding of animation. . . .
--> http://www2.awn.com/spotlight/events.php3?item=2405
* Thursday, May 4, 2000. Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
The UCLA Film and Television Archive will present THE OLD MAN AND THE
SEA at "Digital In Quebec," an evening showcasing 13 shorts from an
exciting hub of digital artistry. . . .
--> http://www2.awn.com/spotlight/events.php3?item=2475
* Monday, May 8 - Thursday, May 11, 2000. Santa Clara, California, U.S.A.
The 3D Conference and Expo provides four days of in-depth classes
focused on the art and technology of 3D. . . .
--> http://www2.awn.com/spotlight/events.php3?item=2406
* Thursday, May 11 - Sunday, May 14, 2000. Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada.
The Golden Sheaf Awards or the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival
offer awards in various categories. . . .
--> http://www2.awn.com/spotlight/events.php3?item=2407
* Wednesday, May 17 - Saturday, May 20, 2000. Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
The Large Format Cinema Festival 2000 will mark the Large Format
Cinema Association's 4th annual Conference and 3rd annual Large
Format Film Festival.
--> http://www2.awn.com/spotlight/events.php3?item=2446
* Friday, May 19 - Sunday, May 21, 2000. Melbourne, Florida, U.S.A.
The American Digital Arts Festival accepts entries in a vast array of
the digital arts. . . .
--> http://www2.awn.com/spotlight/events.php3?item=2447
* Monday, May 22 - Friday, May 26, 2000. New York, New York, U.S.A.
The 41st Annual Clio Awards honor advertising excellence worldwide. . . .
--> http://www2.awn.com/spotlight/events.php3?item=2448
* Wednesday, May 24 - Saturday, May 27, 2000. Vancouver, Canada.
The World Education Market will be a first-of-its kind annual event
for all key players in education to meet on a world stage. . . .
--> http://www2.awn.com/spotlight/events.php3?item=2449
* Wednesday, May 24, 2000. New York, New York, U.S.A.
Bill Plympton will be appearing at Carolines on Broadway in New York. . . .
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* Tuesday, May 30 - Sunday, June 4, 2000. Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
The 7th World Animation Celebration (WAC) will showcase more than 800
films, including the best in both classic and contemporary animation.
. . .
--> http://www2.awn.com/spotlight/events.php3?item=2567
* Friday, June 2, 2000. Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
The 7th World Animation Celebration (WAC) will feature Bill
Plympton's works in a midnight show called "Guilty Pleasures.". . .
--> http://www2.awn.com/spotlight/events.php3?item=2572
* Monday, June 5 - Sunday, June 11, 2000. Toronto, Canada.
The 6th Annual Toronto Short Film Festival features several
categories in animation. . . .
--> http://www2.awn.com/spotlight/events.php3?item=2568
* Monday, June 5 - Saturday, June 10, 2000. Annecy, France.
The 24th Annecy International Film Festival and Market will celebrate
a century of animation. . . .
--> http://www2.awn.com/spotlight/events.php3?item=2602
* Monday, June 5 - Wednesday, June 7, 2000. Annecy, France.
The First International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and
Rendering (NPAR) is the first international symposium dedicated to
non-photorealistic animation and rendering, including cartoon
animation systems and techniques. . . .
--> http://www2.awn.com/spotlight/events.php3?item=2569
* Wednesday, June 7 - Sunday, June 11, 2000. Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.
The Nashville Independent Film Festival (NIFF) will showcase the best
in independent film and video. . . .
--> http://www2.awn.com/spotlight/events.php3?item=2570
* Tuesday, June 13 - Thursday, June 15, 2000. New York, New York, U.S.A.
The 20th annual L!censing trade show is dedicated to the
multi-billion dollar worldwide business of consumer product
licensing, marketing and merchandising. . . .
--> http://www2.awn.com/spotlight/events.php3?item=2571
NEW!
* Friday, June 9 - Sunday, June 11, 2000. Suntec City, Singapore.
The Singapore Animation Fiesta 2000 will highlight creativity in
animation. . . .
--> http://www2.awn.com/spotlight/events.php3?item=2599
NEW!
* Saturday, July 1, 2000. Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
TOKYOPOP.com is presenting the first AnimeOnline Festival. Animation
artists working in anime style are invited to submit their original
anime Internet works in Flash, Shockwave or Quicktime formats. . . .
--> http://www2.awn.com/spotlight/events.php3?item=2600
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