Animation Guild

Sure, our biggest and most important single event is the Annie Awards, our annual celebration of the art of animation and the people who create it, but we also do more for our community outside of our most public event. Over the past three years we have consistently raised our contributions to the animation community, this year earmarking $185,000 for animation-based programs and events, including but not limited to ASIFA's Animation Aid Foundation, ASIFA Animation Educators Forum's scholarship and faculty grants programs, the Animated Film Preservation Initiative and Open Source Support, as well as continuing to sponsor other animation organizations and events. That, and completing and opening our ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Center and June Foray Screening Room, keeps us all of us focused squarely on our mission. Frankly, without your help and support through memberships and individual and corporate sponsorships none of this would be possible. Join us and be a part of honoring those who work in animation as well as helping us to give back in so many important ways. For more information on ASIFA-Hollywood, the world's foremost honorary animation society, please visit asifa-hollywood.org. JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG

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• PRESIDENT'S LETTER
• EDITOR'S NOTE
• ART & CRAFTAko Castuera's dynamic ceramics
• AFTER HOURS DWA's Abarcaon the sweet sideof animation
• IN PRODUCTION How Paradise, P.D.runs its show
• ON THE JOB Character Designers at different studios
• SPACE INVADERS Get lost in Ben Balistreri's home studio
• PERSPECTIVE Surviving pixel vision
• DIALOGUE Artists onthe show that inspired them
• THE LOCAL Color Stylists ask for your support, our convention delegates
• SOCIAL HOURT oasting our members around town
• MUSIC IN MOTION For Cosmo Segurson, his Nickelodeon short, The Prince and Mr. Whiskers, brings together influences from hispast. Inspired by hot jazz, 1930'scartoons and his father, he creates amusical battle in a stop-motion world.
• AND THE WINNER IS…We look back at eight Primetime Emmy winners over the last five decades, highlighting shows that impacted the industry. From The Flintstones to SpongeBob SquarePants, these unforgettable characters continue to live on.
• INTO THE NIGHT How do you design a summer vacation film without sunlight? That was one big challenge for the production of Hotel Transylvania 3.Learn how the artists behind the filmcreated a bright destination for Dracand his family.