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Monday
- April 23, 2001
- Waking Life Distribution
Rights Acquired by Fox Searchlight
- Release Charts:
Animated, FX, and Anime DVDs
- Cartoonist Awards Set for
Late May
- News Link of the Day
- Microsoft Forms X-Box Alliance with Taco Bell
Waking
Life Distribution Rights Acquired by Fox Searchlight
(by digitalmediafx.com) Having air time at this year's Sundance
Festival was a big boost for the movie Waking Life, an
experimental animation that transformed live actors into unique
characters, each interpreted and animated by 31 different artists.
Fox Searchlight Pictures has announced that it has acquired the
distribution rights to Waking Life. Fox Searchlight will
apparently release the film nationally this Fall.
After editing
of the Waking Life footage was complete, the animation
process began using software invented by animator Bob Sabiston.
The software allows artists to paint over the digital footage
using a technique of interpolated rotoscoping. Individual brushstrokes
can be stretched smoothly across a range of frames, giving the
animation a unique look.
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 Release
Charts: Animated, FX, and Anime DVDs
(by digitalmediafx.com) It's another light week for animation,
FX, and anime releases. The Mummy Ultimate Edition is very timely
since The Mummy Returns hits theaters in less than two weeks.
the Ultimate Edition is a 2-disc collector's set. Here is this
week's list:
Ghost
(1990 - FX)
Magic
Knight Rayearth Season 2 (anime)
The
Mummy Ultimate Edition (1999 - FX)
Shadow
Raiders - Final Hours (Vol. 3) (1998 - animated)
Rurouni
Kenshin Vol. 7 - Shadow of the Wolf (1999 - anime)
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Cartoonist
Awards Set for Late May
Cartoonists from around the world will descend on Boca Raton,
Florida for the 55th annual Reuben Awards weekend May 26-31. Boca
Raton is the home of the International Museum of Cartoon Art,
founded in 1997 by Mort Walker, creator of Beetle Bailey. It is
arguably the largest and most prestigious cartoon art museum in
the world.
The three-day
event will climax with the presentation of The Reuben Award to
the outstanding cartoonist of the year on Saturday night at a
black-tie dinner. Past Reuben winners include Scott Adams, Sergio
Aragones, Garry Trudeau, Gary Larson, Cathy Guisewite, Mike Peters,
Jim Davis, Lynn Johnston, Bill Watterson, Charles Schulz... the
list goes back for 54 years. This years nominees are Pat Brady
(Rose Is Rose), Jack Davis (MAD Magazine) and Matt Groening, creator
of The Simpsons.
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News Link
of the Day - Microsoft Forms X-Box Alliance with Taco Bell
- Starts Spending Spree
According to USA Today:
"As part
of the biggest consumer launch in the 26-year history of the company,
Microsoft is forming an alliance with Taco Bell to promote the
fall launch of its Xbox video-game system.
Microsoft
promises to spend $500 million over 18 months to market Xbox around
the world. That makes Xbox one of the biggest consumer product
launches in history, eclipsing Microsoft's $200 million rollout
of its Windows 95 operating system..."
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