April 1996 Volume 1, No.1 Barry Purves' Rigoletto © Bare Boards Productions. ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE Volume 1, No.1 – April 1996 Editor's Notebook by Harvey Deneroff 3 Creating the Memories by Bill Kroyer 5 ANIMATION WORLD NETWORK One of Hollywood's leading directors and computer animation pioneer provides a personal history of computers in animation from the 6525 Sunset Blvd., days of Tron to the present. In so doing, Kroyer discusses the problems and opportunities posed by the marriage of art and technology. Garden Suite 10 Hollywood, CA 90028 The Emperor's New Clothes by Barry Purves 10 Phone : 213.468.2554 After ace puppet animator Barry Purves was displaced on Tim Burton's Mars Attacks ! by the folks at Industrial Light & Fax : 213.464.5914 Magic, we asked him to write something about his experience in Hollywood. The result is not what we expected, and instead he provides a wondrous soliloquy on the nature of animation, both of the traditional and computer kind. Email :
[email protected] 3-D Animation in France by Olivier Cotte 15 Olivier Cotte, creator of Terra Incognita, provides a rundown on what's going on in 3-D computer animation in France. Fantôme : The First 10 Years by Harvey Deneroff 18 ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE A talk with Georges Lacroix, co-founder of Fantôme Animation, about his company and the popular Insektors TV series,
[email protected] which is a reminder that there is life for computer animated shows beyond ReBoot. Technician of Suspended Disbelief : Rick Dyer, Shadoan and the Frontier of Animated PUBLISHER CD Entertainment by Eric La Brecque 21 Ron Diamond, President In the early 1980s, Rick Dyer engineered an interactive revolution when he married feature quality animation to video Dan Sarto, Chief Operating Officer games with titles such as Dragon's Lair.