''Airheads'' depicts a relationship between creatures who are interconnected in an absurdist manner.

Storyline :This CG work is entitled ''Anjyu'', which refers to its composited layersof calmness. It reflects my feelings and emotions during creation.Software : OriginalHardware : SGI Octane Director: Yasuo Ohba Producer: Yasuo Ohba Production Company: Namco Ltd. Keywords: Electronic Theatre 2001 Contact Information: ohba@rd.namco.co.jp http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~ohba/ 1-1-32 Shin-Urashima-Cho Kanagawa-ku Yokohama, 221-0031 Japan +81.45.461.8013 Fax: +81.45.461.8014

For 18 days during the Southern Hemisphere spring of 1997, a NASA-launched Canadian satellite called RADARSAT collected pieces of a puzzle that will help scientists study the most remote and inaccessible part of the earth -- Antarctica. Scientists have now put the puzzle pieces together to form the first high-resolution radar map of the mysterious frozen continent. With detail to the point of picking out a research bungalow on an iceburg, this new map has answered scientist's questions about the icy continent, and has also raised new questions about strange and fascinating features never seen before. Director: Alex Kekesi Producer: Wade Sisler, Michael Starobin Production Company: GST Contact Information: Alex.Kekesi@gsfc.nasa.gov http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Capital Zoom is a seamless, cloudless, zoom-in starting from a global view zooming down to the nation's Capitol. It is composed entirely of real earth-observing satellite data. Included are IKONOS 1 meter data, Landsat7 15/30 meter data, Terra/MODIS 250 meter data, and Terra/MODIS 8 kilometer data. The visualization first zooms in seamlessly, then zooms out showing where the different data set layers reside.This vizualization was created using Maya for motion control, Renderman for rendering, IDL for pre-processing of the data, Imagine for image registration, and Photoshop for color matching.

This TV commercial, for release in China, utilised both CGI plus miniature models set in a festive surrounding in China. An Asian version of the Polar Bear was the aspiration...but with a distinctive Chinese feel, hence the introduction of the magical clay doll family.The miniature city was built and consequently shot by motion control. The CGI clay dolls were animated giving a stop-motion look and feel. The whole production, including CGI, miniatures, and motion control, utilised 4 weeks production time.CGI software: LightWave, AfterEffects Director: Frankie Chung Producer: Chu Chu Cheng Production Company: centro digital pictures ltd Contact Information: lui@Centro.com.hk www.centro.com.hk 601 hkitc 72 tat chee avenue hong kong, nil Hong Kong (852) 2319 6688 Fax: (852) 2319 2272

A little boy goes to a birthday party... with his imagination ! Director: Christophe BARNOUIN, Nathalie BONNIN, Luc DESGARDIN Producer: SUPINFOCOM Production Company: p/o SUPINFOCOM Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Contact Information: contact@waveworld.net www.supinfocom.fr 10 avenue Henri Matisse Tertia 3000 Aulnoy-Lez-Valenciennes, F-59300 France

A predatory reptile makes a cute pet when it's young, but can it be fun to eat from a can instead of catching food on the hoof? And what if the owner gives up trying to care properly for it? Only really well prepared people can take care of an adult exotic pet well enough to give it a pleasant life. Director: Skye Carlson Producer: Skye Carlson Production Company: Ringling School of Art & Design c/o Susan Trovas Contact Information: afn20039@afn.org http://www.rsad.edu/~ccarlson

This prototype house is one of a series of courthouse designs made by Mies van der Rohe in 1930's. The computer graphics film team took the original schematic design that survived on a plan drawing, achieved a derivative version by adding components similar to those found in other projects designed and built by the architect and developed a visualization utilizing radiosity-based software. The camera moves between and around the uniquely shaped elemental walls and reveals the pleasure of developing scenes full of material colors and the ambiance of sunlight.

Conceived as a critique of traditional architectural ''flythroughs'' and perhaps a glimpse into the future of online environments, this short film documents the investigation of an abandoned house from multiple points of view. The ''handheld'' camera movement was accomplished through four layers of motion capture data via the mouse. The house was designed and modeled in form-Z, animation in 3ds max, and rendering in mental ray. AfterEffects and Combustion were used for compositing and graphics. Director: Joseph Kosinski Producer: k+d.lab Production Company: k+d.lab Contact Information: joseph@kdlab.net www.kdlab.net 145 Hudson Street 2nd Fl. New York, NY 10013 United States 2129661932 Fax: 2129661937

Fétiche Mascotte (Duffy the Mascot, aka The Mascot, aka Puppet Love, aka The Devil's Ball) (1934), a strange story about a loving dog puppet who practically goes through Hell to get an orange to a dying girl. Director Ladislas Starevich (1882-1965) was a Polish, Russian and French stop-motion animator who used insects and animals as his protagonists.

Early Light is part 2 of a 3 part series dealing with times of day/seasons. The idea is to create a living manuscript of the impressions/memories of different seasons and how they unfold. The work progresses from the end of Winter thru Spring and is also Morning.The work is inspired by experiences of landscape as sensed internally and spiritually. These are interpretations of natureÆs consciousness emerging and shifting in character. The source scenes are constructed from multiple photographs and video footage. The stills are animated thru mattes of generated light, wind and noise. Producer / Director: John S. Banks Production Company: Artek Images Contact Information: jsbanks@interaccess.com artekimages.com 2327 N. Geneva Terrace Chicago, IL 60614 United States 773-296-0508

Perhaps the greatest challenge that Enemy at the Gates presented to Double Negative was how to serve the film's narrative flow whilst staying as faithful as possible to history. For the opening sequence digital matte paintings depicting Stalingrad's war-torn skyline were derived from an exhaustively researched 3D architectural library. Detailed surveys of surviving Stuka aircraft ensured an accurate portrayal of the dive-bomber attack. In the air raid sequence the 3D library was taken to its logical conclusion with a digital recreation of the entire ruined cityscape. Through extensive previsualisation all VFX work was tightly integrated with the film's dramatic structure. Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud Producer: Jean-Jacques Annaud Production Company: Double Negative Audio/Visual: sound, color Keywords: Electronic Theatre 2001 Contact Information: mh@dneg.com 2nd Floor 77 Shaftesbury Avenue London, W1V8HQ United Kingdom +44 20 7534 4400 Fax: +44 20 7534 4452

An individual steals a unique identity in a world of absolute control. Software: Lightwave 5.6, Project Messiah, After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop, Steinberg Nuendo. Hardware: two Pentium IIIs and two Athlons. Director: Jason Wen Producer: Jason Wen Production Company: Crystalline Lens Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Contact Information: jason_wen@hotmail.com 1801 Lakeland Park Drive Garland, TX 75043 United States 972-240-0141 Fax: 972-240-0087

A short story of a sailor dreaming of himself underwater. He discovers a mermaid who wants to kiss. Director: James Torrens Producer: Vancouver Film School Production Company: Vancouver Film School Contact Information: arnault@vfs.com 420 Homer Street Vancouver , BC V6B 2V5 Canada 604.685.6331, ext. 109

A struggling (and starving) actor finally relents and agrees to go to Hollywood to be in films. But first, Felix has to find a way to raise the money to get Felix and his master (the actor) there.

Visually stunning and action packed, Freeware is a 3-D, CG-animated thrill ride through a futuristic world. This sci-fi short follows three cyborgs on a daring race to rescue Maia, an assistant at a powerful IT company, from the grips of its evil CEO. All animation was created using Alias/Wavefronts Maya. Director: Alex Orrelle Producer: Mike Kaczmarek Production Company: Academy of Art Audio/Visual: sound, color Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Contact Information: mikekaz@hotmail.com www.freewarethemovie.com 15267 Hesperian Blvd. #310 San Leandro, CA 94578 United States 1-650-628-7686 Fax: 1-510-357-9680

I made the inorganic objects in this desolate space appear to move of their own volition. Software used ''MAYA''. All motions of an object are controlled by ''MEL (Maya Embedded Language)'' and ''Expression''. This work was awarded excellence prize in the ''Non-interactive division'' of the ''2000 4th.Agency for Cultural Affairs media Arts Festival''. Director: Hitoshi Akayama, Katsuyuki Kamei Producer: Hitoshi Akayama, Katsuyuki Kamei Production Company: Japan Electronics College Contact Information: kamei@ts.jec.ac.jp http://www.cityfujisawa.ne.jp/~umitsuki/ 1-25-4 Hyakunin-cho Shinjyuku-ku Tokyo, 169-8522 Japan -12624 Fax: -10970

It is a fairy tale based on my grandmother's experience of surviving World War II. At that time, Japan occupied Korea. She remembers that she had to learn the Japanese language and culture and she even had to use a Japanese name. It is like having your own body without your own spirit inside.Software:softimage, Media100, SGI Director: Sungyeon Joh Producer: Sungyeon Joh Production Company: The School og the Art Institute of Chicago Contact Information: sungy@hotmail.com www.artic.edu/~sjoh 1321 40th St. #329 Emeryville , CA 94608 United States 510-752-3816 Fax: 510-752-3430

In the desert of Arizona two Cowboys meet for a most unusual duel.3d Computeranimated Short Film Software: Maya Hardware: Dual 600 MHz Intergraph Workstation Production Time: 8 months Director: Johannes Weiland Producer: Martin Burkert Production Company: Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg Keywords: Contact Information: sven.pannicke@filmakademie.de - Mathildenstrasse 20 - Ludwigsburg, 71638 Germany 4.97E+11 Fax: 4.97E+13

Cornered by a bully on a class trip to the natural history museum, Hubert Stinkler, gets locked into a laboratory where he literally stumbles onto a talking brain in a jar and gets mixed up in a bizarre tale of vivisection and mayhem.Hubert's Brain is a twisted buddy movie between a boy and a brain. Each will go to great lengths to prove the values of friendship.The story gives new meaning to the phrase ''everybody needs some...body.''Hubert's Brain was modeled, animated and rendered in Maya from Alias/Wavefront and composited using Shake from Nothing Real. Director: Phil Robinson Producer: Nina Rappaport Production Company: Wild Brain, Inc. Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Contact Information: ninar@wildbrain.com www.wildbraininc.com