Animation Guild | We are 839 Digital Magazine
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D E PA R T M E N T 15 KEYFRAME 2002 2004 2007 The Academy Awards presents its first Oscar for Best Animated Feature to Shrek. MARCH 15 The Guild opens a free, self-instructed computer lab, allowing members to take advantage of the opportunity to use "state-of-the-art Windows and MacIntosh computers with the latest CG hardware." OCTOBER Persistence pays off. By an overwhelming 166 to 20, employees of DPS Film Roman vote to join TAG. The studio produces The Simpsons and King of the Hill for Fox. The contract is ratified in January 2005. JANUARY Netflix announces it will launch a streaming video service, " Watch Now," that will deliver content directly to T Vs, computers, and tablets. The animation landscape is forever changed. 2010 Animator and Animation Supervisor KEVIN KOCH helms the Guild through most of the 2000s. 2002-2010 JULY The Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Guild changes its name to The Animation Guild and Affiliated Electronic and Graphic Artists, IATSE Local 839. In short, the MPSC is now known as TAG. NOVEMBER Nickelodeon Animation Studios signs its first Collective Bargaining Agreement with Local 839, bringing Dora the Explorer and SpongeBob SquarePants into the Guild fold. JANUARY Steve Hulett introduces a series of online audio interviews with the "old guard" of hand-drawn animation. The project expands into an oral history archive featuring in- depth conversations with legends in the field of animation. 2011 FEBRUARY TAG's Gallery 839, located in the new Hollywood Way headquarters, presents its first exhibition titled Canvas, Bronze and Polyresin. It features animation veterans Bill Wray, George Scribner, Annie Guenther, Vicki Banks, and Ruben Procopio. The goal of the gallery's proposed First Friday exhibitions are to focus on work done by animation artists outside their day-to-day jobs. 2009 JULY TAG and the American Animation Institute move into their new headquarters at 1105 N. Hollywood Way in Burbank. AUGUST Sideletter N enters the Collective Bargaining Agreement, setting wage minimums and improved working conditions for New (streaming) Media. Martha Sigall Walt Peregoy ANNIVERSARY ISSUE 15