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Death Laughs Among Us: The Films of John Schnall

John Schnall.Independent animator John Schnall has put together a home video of his short films in association with Poteet Music, an independent record distributor based in New Jersey. Among the community of East Coast independents, Schnall is notably prolific; in this regard, his colleague Steve Dovas said that, "To me, what has been most admirable about his career has been the regularity with which he's turned out his funny, wierd, and wholly singular, self-produced animated films." All this abundance has driven Schnall to be able to release a 40-minute video collection at a relatively early...

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Kids Making Animation: A Sampling of Children's Animation Workshops Around the World

A look at what's going on in a selection of children's animation workshops in North and South America, Europe and Israel.

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16th Brussels Cartoon and Animated Film Festival

Brussels logo by Johan DeMoor.The sixteenth edition of the Brussels Cartoon and Animated Film Festival, organized by Folioscope, was held from February 4-16, during the Mardi Gras school holiday.

Apart from a retrospective held at the Museum of Cinema, this year's event was limited to one movie theater (Passage 44). The organizers, essentially, had not been able to reach a satisfactory agreement with the Botanique (a publicly-subsidized cultural center) that had served as the venue for specialized programs for previous editions.

Festivalgoers nevertheless didn't suffer because of this,...

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16e Festival du Dessin animé de Bruxelles

Logo du festival par Johan DeMoor.La seizie ition du Festival du Dessin animde Bruxelles, organis par Folioscope se tenait du 4 au 16 frier, piode de congscolaire du Mardi Gras.

Mis part une rrospective sur les pionniers du genre au Mus du Cina, la manifestation belge ait circonscrite cette ann dans une unique salle (celle du Passage 44). L'organisateur en effet, n'ait pas parvenu reconduire un accord satisfaisant avec le "Botanique" (centre...

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Trees for Life: Making Life Better Through Fruit Trees and Animation

Heather Kenyon reports how Balbir Mathur and his organization, Trees for Life, with help from Frick Back, are using animation in to help people in the third world plant trees.

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Going on Their Own in Vancouver

With animation booming in Vancouver, Sean Maclennan Murch explains how and why studios there are trying to sashay out of contract work and into their own properties.

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An Interview With George Griffin

Ann C. Phillipon talks with "quintessential independent American animator, George Griffin" about his life and art.

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Children's Animation, a Universal Language?

The BBC's Theresa Plummer-Andrews provides a light-hearted look at the problems and peccadilloes of producing animated children's programming for the international marketplace.

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UNICEF Draws on Talent to Advance Children's Rights

Deborah Reber provides a look on how almost 80 studios around the world joined forces to form UNICEF's International Animation Consortium for Child Rights.

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Louise Beaudet: une passion pour l'animation

The Career Coach reflects on the events of September 11, 2001 and calls for us to work toward our goals and dreams today.

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Renzo Kinoshita: A Talk With Miyasan Sadao Miyamoto

Will Ryan asks Mike Kazaleh slightly fewer than ten questions regarding getting started in Detroit, comic books and the benefits of working for hire...

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Where the Action Is

Harvey Deneroff sums up the current state of America's animation industry, with an emphasis on recent mergia mania, feature films and prime time shows..

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Dirdy Birdy

February 1997's Dirdy Birdy by John Dilworth.

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Staying Ahead of the Game

Jerry Hibbert, drawing from his own experience, provides some thoughts on the need for production companies to embrace change.

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NATPE '97: The Buzz of the Biz!

Jean-Luc Ballester talks how a 1983 government proposal changed the French animation industry and how the major entertainment union used it to improve working conditions for animation artists.

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Editor's Notebook

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Animation in Singapore

Gigi Hu reports on the current attempt by the island nation to bolster its fledgling animation industry.

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Desert Island Series....Animation Industry-ites

Piet Kroon, Pat Raine Webb, Jerry Hibbert, Steve Hulett, Jeff Massie and Georges Lacroix

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Heard at NATPE 97

At the 1997 Convention and Conference of the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE), our reporter on the scene, asked animation distributors: "What are some of the considerations involved in developing, producing, and ultimately distributing animation to the international market?" Herein are a selection of answers followed by some comments drawn from a panel discussion "Animation: The Universal Language," moderated by Cartoon Network President Betty Cohen , which discussed the realities of the much-hyped global marketplace for animation.Joel Andryc, Saban's Senior Vice...

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Don't Quit Your Day Job, Work the Night Shift

Dutch filmmaker Piet Kroon contributes the first in an occasional series devoted to a day in the life of an animation artist. Herein, Kroon explores the whys and wherefors of how he balances working as an independent filmmaker while holding down a full-time job at Warner Bros.

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Susan Pitt: An Animator's Journey

Jackie Leger explores the visions of painter, designer and animation filmmaker, Suzan Pitt.

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Shin Dong Mun, An Old Warrior in Korean Animation

John A. Lent interviews one of the pioneers of Korean animation, who had a profound effect on the course of the nation's indigenous production

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Remembering Al

Animator Alfred Eugster, whose career started in the silent era and ended doing animation for TV, passed away the night of January 1, 1997 at the age of 87. The following memoir and biofilmography was prepared by his friend and sometime colleague, Mark Mayerson.Left to right: Otto Englander, Shamus Culhane, and Al Eugster at Disney in 1935. From Shamus Culhane's Talking Animals and Other People (St. Martin's Press, 1986). Collection of Bernie Wolf.I first met Al in 1975 when I was researching an article on cartoons released by MGM when he let me interview him about the Iwerks studio.

When I...

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The Lyon Conference

Jean-Luc Ballester talks how a 1983 government proposal changed the French animation industry and how the major entertainment union used it to improve working conditions for animation artists.

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