June 2001 Animatics: Getting off on the right frame by: Brigitte Marie Hoarau Excerpts: Before the days of videotape, storyboards visualized key aspects of a production before shooting began. While storyboards are still instrumental to visualization, animatics have take the concept one step further by producing those previsualized images on videotape. Though the quality of …
Orlando-based A&S Animation and Raven Moon Entertainment are teaming up to develop a series of animated Bible story shorts called A Message From God which are geared towards children ages 3 to 6. The one-minute stories, written by A&S’ Jeanne Pappas Simon, start with a brother and sister arguing about a situation they are in. …
Interview with Mark Simon about the Timmy series Melissa Ross, of Good Morning Orlando, hosted a 3 and a half minute on-air interview with Mark about his series Timmy’s Lessons In Nature. Mark was able to announce on-air that the shorts had just won at another children’s festival in Chicago the night before. The interview …
Orlando Sentinel August 2, 2001 By: Roger Moore Excerpts: To the folks who ‘toon, Spike & Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation is like Cannes and Sundance rolled into one. Getting your short animated film included in this touring compilation film is animation’s Lotto jackpot. “You get in that, you’re following in the footsteps …
When audiences see the new horror film “You’re Next,” they will be watching more than a family besieged by a gang of mysterious killers. They will be watching the work of Orlando resident Mark Simon come to murderous life. As a storyboard artist, Simon, 49, is part of a long filmmaking tradition, one around nearly …
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