About

Imagine Animation is a leading website and magazine resource for animators of all levels, from students to professionals. The publication tackles issues pertaining to the entire spectrum of job fields along the animation studio pipeline, from 2D artists and concept designers to texture artists and lighting engineers.

The website contains the latest industry news, updated daily, features, videos, show and tell, industry blogs and a comprehensive, dedicated event listings section. New for 2011 is the online directory, displaying hundreds of company listings for all aspects of animation production and promotion. With over 8,300 registered users, the website is a tour de force within the sector, bringing together animators from across the world.

In addition to the website is the Imagine fortnightly e-newsletter, which delivers industry news, information on relevant competitions and the best of show and tell straight into 8,000 pertinent, targeted inboxes.

The magazine is published four times a year, and has an overall reach of 16,500 principally in the UK and Europe. In addition to subscribers, the publication targets broadcasters, studios, licensees, organisations and commissioners to ensure a wide and powerful readership comprised of decision-makers and fund holders. As a key media partner to many of the largest events in animation, Imagine offers bonus distribution at key events, including:

• Imagina
• Cartoon Movie
• Annecy
• Develop
• Cartoon Forum
• MIPCOM
• SIGGRAPH

Additionally, the annual student directory targets a key demographic of the sector – reaching young animators on the cusp of their career and decision-makers such as lecturers.

Contributors

	Tallulah Speed Imagine Editor Tallulah Speed discovered her passion for animation at Bournemouth university, where she studied multimedia. Tallulah has over four years experience in journalism and has worked on a diverse array of titles, including Irish Dance Magazine, Bristol Property Live and University Caterer.
	Alex Collier Alex Collier was a Viz cartoonist until he went to university for three years to learn how to do animation. Having produced animation for the BBC with Vic Reeves and Ross Noble, he is currently frantically creating a Viz animation for Channel 4. He works from home in the North East, mostly in his pants, surrounded by empty coffee cups and packets of Pro Plus.
	Damon Jones Damon Jones is a freelance journalist with a keen interest in film, and all aspects animation. After graduating from Reading University with an English, Film and Drama degree, he worked in the post-production dungeons of London for six years before moving into journalism.
	James Clarke James Clarke is the writer of Animated Films (Virgin Books) and Movie Movements: Films That Changed The World of Cinema (Kamera Books). As a scriptwriter he's worked on animation series during their long haul development phases and this year, the short film Chasing Cotards, for which he wrote the screenstory, has played at a number of North American film festivals. You can follow him at www.twitter.com/jasclarkewriter.
	Saint John Walker Saint John Walker is fascinated by animation technology and the cultures and disruption it throws up. Coming from a background of building industry facing degree courses in animation, games and VFX for places like the National Film and TV School, University of the Arts and Cambridge, he now works as Head of development at Skillset. He recently chaired a series of panel discussions at the London international Animation Festival, and co-authored the free to download Core Skills of VFX handbook for Skillset.
	Stephen Cavalier Stephen Cavalier is an animator, director and midfield general who also writes stuff, mainly about animation. The author of The World History of Animation, he lives on the delayed 7.17 from London to Brighton. http://www.100animatedshorts.com/