Animation World Network
(often just "
AWN
") is an online
[1]
[2]
publishing group
[3]
that specializes in resources for
animators
, with an extensive
website
offering news, articles and links for professional animators and animation fans.
Animation World Network
|
Type of site
| News, animation
|
---|
Owner
| Ron Diamond and Dan Sarto
|
---|
Created?by
| Ron Diamond and Dan Sarto
|
---|
URL
| awn
.com
|
---|
Commercial
| No
|
---|
Registration
| Not Available
|
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Launched
| April 1, 1996
|
---|
Current?status
| Active
|
---|
Specifically, AWN covers animator profiles, independent film distribution, major animation studio activities, licensing, CGI and other animation technologies, as well as current events in all fields of animation.
AWN also publishes print magazines. The magazines are
Animation World
,
[4]
dedicated to animation in general, and
VFX World
,
[5]
which focuses on special effects and
computer-generated imagery
.
In 1995,
Ron Diamond
partnered with Dan Sarto and founded the Animation World Network. A year after
Toy Story
debuted, Sarto and Diamond produced their first issue. "Back then there weren't many people publishing on the Internet, but we decided to go online and bypass print altogether; not just for cost reasons but because animators are always ahead of the curve when it comes to exploring new technologies," Diamond said.
[6]
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