Interactive Trendlines
A sampling of what some of the leading lights in interactive animation have to say about what the future has in store.
How The Grinch Stole Christmas . . . and My Heart
Frankie Kowalski takes a loving peek at the Christmas classic on the occasion of its 30th anniversary.
The Animated World of John Canemaker
Filmmaker, teacher and animation historian, John Canemaker has been called animation's ambassador at large. Mike Lyons explains why.
La Cambre, an Animation School in Brussels
Philippe Moins takes a look at one of the oldest and most respected animation schools in continental European.
Editor's Notebook
Editor's Notebook: Interactive Animation
Une école d'animation à Bruxelles: la Cambre
Philippe Moins takes a look at one of the oldest and most respected animation schools in continental European.
Lettuce Entertain You: A Visit to Sierra On-Line
Judith Shane reports on what goes on behind the scenes at one of the leading video game producers and of the latest escapades of Leisure Suit Larry and Jolly Al.
Espinho 96: Small Is Still Beautiful
Ron Mann, Sue Shakespeare, Space Jam Directors, Tony Cervone and Bruce Smith.
New Media--A Ringside View of Trends in the Industry
Andrew Zucker provides a blow-by-blow description of the fate of "new media," from computer animation to interactive CD-ROMs.
Street Fighter--From Video Game to Anime
Capcom's popular Street Fighter games have spawned a slew of movie and TV adaptations both in Japan and the US. Brian Camp reports.
Visioneering: Interactive Animation at Creative Capers
Creative Capers had a happy existence doing animation for Hollywood feature films until the CD-ROM revolution came along. Harvey Deneroff takes a peek at what's doing there animation-wise.
Space Jam
Let's face it, there is no avoiding Space Jam. Warner Bros. really pulled out all the stops to make sure the film opened big, which it did. In so doing, they finally proved that Disney is not the only one that has the ability to make and successfully market an animated feature as a major event. Thus, the psychological hegomony that was Walt Disney Feature Animation is no more. In this context, it seems rather picky to cast any sort of critical eye on it. After all, aren't the special effects and the marriage of live-action and animation terrific? Well, yes, most of the time, but...
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Society for Animation Studies: 8th Annual Conference
Philippe Moins takes a look at one of the oldest and most respected animation schools in continental European.
Dirdy Birdy
A international selection of filmmakers, executives and others share their thoughts about why animators should consider sending their works to festivals.
The Fremont Street Experience--No Glitz, No Glory!
Las Vegas' Freemont Street Experience boasts of the world's largest electric sign and Jane Baer explains to Frankie Kowalski how one does animation for a 5 screen panel that is almost 1,400 feet long.
Desert Island Series....Please keep your arms in the vehicle while the ride is in motion!
Scott Ross, Jane Baer and Bob Rogers.
Brisbane Animation Festival
Festivals are wonderful places to discover the like-minded and the like-minded wannabes. The debut of the Brisbane Animation Festival, cheekily entitled Celluloid Briefs, drew the vibrant Queensland animation community and the lovers of animation to revel in two days of flickering projected images. And, it appears from the success of this first time out, it will be, as the organizers have promised, a biennial event.
Brisbane, a city of about one and a half million has a surprisingly active animation group. With 260 members in the Queensland Animators Group, the organization is certainly on...
The National Lottery: A Polemic
The unexpected success of Britain's new national lottery can be a means of mitigating the dire results of privatization in funding animated films. Jill McGreal explains.
Something's Wrong With Our Ship: Animated Motion-Simulator Films in Theme Parks
Judith Rubin surveys what's going on in animated ridefilms at theme parks and other venues around the world and who's making them.
BRC Imagination Arts
BRC Imagination Arts, one of the oldest and largest producers of animated and live-action ridefilms is profiled by Rita Street.
Editor's Notebook
Editor's Notebook by Harvey Deneroff.
T2-3D
Bob Swain interviews director Jim Cameron's reworking of Terminator 2 for Universal Studios theme park in Orlando, Terminator 2-3D .
Contracts for Original Works Published on Internet
Attorney Nicolas Valluet explores the whys and wherefores of having your work put on the Internet.
Les Contrats d'Exploitation d'Oeuvres Originales Sur l'Internet
Attorney Nicolas Valluet explores the whys and wherefores of having your work put on the Internet.
Ottawa International Animation Festival
If you like to second-guess jury decisions, Ottawa '96 was the perfect animation festival for you. Almost as good as the O.J. Simpson trial. Even the Grand Prize Winner engaged in some public secondguessing.Ottawa award winners, Igor Kovalyov, Pritt Parn and Paul Dressien.When Russian animator Igor Kovalyov came forward to accept his best film of the festival trophy for Bird in the Window, he was suitably gracious if somewhat stunned. He thought Priit Parn would win it for his film 1895.
This was the perfect ending to an enjoyable animation festival that featured some peculiar choices for...
