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.
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...
Editor's Notebook
Editor's Notebook by Harvey Deneroff.
Reynard the Fox and the Jew Animal
The Dutch film industry's most ambitious production during World War II was an anti-Semitic sequel to Reynard the Fox. Egbert Barten and Gerard Groeneveld detail the fascinating story behind the film's production.
Icelandic Animation
Animation in Iceland is a relatively recent (and mostly hidden) phenomenon. Giannalberto Bendazzi provides an look at frame-by-frame filmmaking in the island nation.
Dirdy Birdy
Attorney Nicolas Valluet explores the whys and wherefores of having your work put on the Internet.
Desert Island Series....The Pragmatic Voice of Kibitzing?!?
Tom Sito, June Foray and Bob Basler.
The View From Hollywood
Raimund Krumme, one of Germany's top independent animators who is now working on a feature version of a children's classic, talks about Hollywood and the challenges posed by his new project.
The Politics of Protectionism: The Cartoon Forum
Jill McGreal discusses the politics of funding for animation via the European Union's CARTOON initiative, which is trying to create the infrastructure for a transnational industry.
The Case of Hans Fischerkoesen
Hans Fischerkoesen, Germany's leading producer of animated commercials, was ordered to make theatrical cartoons by the government in World War II, as William Moritz notes, he produced a trio of remarkable films which were not exactly Nazi propaganda.
Momotaro's Gods-Blessed Sea Warriors: Japan's Unknown Wartime Feature
Fred Patten takes a look at Japan's first animated feature, a propaganda tract made at the behest of the country's military government.
Leaving Home
Linda Simensky ruminates on the political and other consequences of changing jobs amidst today's boom times in the animation industry.
Fight To The Death, But Don't Hurt Anybody! Memories of Political Correctness
Tom Sito, fresh from his gig as head of story on Disney's Pocohantas, details his experiences over the years trying to be politically correct.
Editor's Notebook
Editor's Notebook October 1996: Politics & Propaganda
SIGGRAPH 96
SIGGRAPH, held between August 4-9, at the Morial Convention Center, in New Orleans, is the world's largest and most prestigious computer technology event dealing with computer graphics and interactive techniques, of which animation plays a major part. The annual conference is put on by what was once known as the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics (i.e., SIGGRAPH). This year marked the 23rd running of the big daddy of all computer graphic conferences, which acts as a showcase for all the newest and greatest achievements in computerized...
Hiroshima 96, Journal de bord
Monique Renault (Pays-Bas).Jeudi 22, premier jour du festival Arriv hier apr avoir survolla moitidu monde sans en avoir vu grand chose. Si. Taiwan. C'est beaucoup plus grand que je ne l'imaginais. Pour moi, Taiwan c'etait un amoncelement de petits ateliers oles gens s'entassent pour fabriquer des faux Dior, des fausses Rayban ou Adidas ... Apparemment ils ont aussi des montagnes et de la verdure.
Je suis contente de revenir Hiroshima. En mai dernier, pour la selection - ah! la section! - j'avais douvert le...
TV's Fall Animation Lineup
A special report from Pamela Schechter detailing what's new and what's being renewed in animation on American television this coming season.
Listen Up, It's Playtime
The GiggleBone Gang is alive and well at Seattle-based Headbone Interactive. Judith Shane explains it all.
So You Wanna Be an Animation Executive?
Cori Stern provides a test to see if you too can join the executive ranks at the animation company of your choice.
