Worldís Top Animators Get ìPlugged Inî
Animation Giants Don Bluth and Gary Goldman Chat Online on Yahoo December 18: Reveal Secrets Behind Dragonís Lair DVD for DVD Movie Player, New Animation Projects Cyberspace - December 18, 1998 -- Legendary animators Don Bluth and Gary Goldman - whose accomplishments stretch from award-winning animated features such as An American Tail and Anastasia to interactive games including Dragon's Lair and Space Ace - will be fielding questions in an online chat on Yahoo Friday, December 18 at 8 p.m. EST. The conference can be accessed by going to www.tvgen.com - the most direct route to the Yahoo chat room. The conference was initiated by DVD software company Digital Leisure, which recently released the first fully-interactive video game for the DVD Movie Player in Bluth's Dragon's Lair. Participants in the chat have a chance to win the Dragon's Lair DVD-Video game, the Dragon's Lair DVD-ROM for computers, an autographed Dragon's Lair poster and a signed Dragon's Lair animation cel. Bluth and Goldman currently share the responsibilities of creative leadership in dual producer/director roles as heads of FOX Animation Studios in Phoenix, AZ. ìWe are very excited to have the first fully interactive game for the DVD Movie Player because Gary and I have always tried to push the limits of animation,î Bluth said. Bluth began at Disney (1955) as an ìInbetweenerî and moved up to Assistant Animator on the animated classic, Sleeping Beauty. He later returned as an Animator and worked on Robin Hood (1973) and as a Directing Animator on Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974) and the Rescuers (1976). He was Director of animation on PeteÌs Dragon (1977) and Producer/Director of the Disney featurette ìThe Small Oneî (1978). Goldman, a Directing Animator, who left Disney with Bluth to start their own company in Bluthís garage in 1979, worked with Bluth on their first major independent film, The Secret of Nimh. In late 1982, Bluth and Goldman met with Rick Dyer and began work on the now classic DragonÌs Lair (1983) and followed it up with Space Ace (Nov 1983) and DragonÌs Lair II: Time Warp (1989). Bluth and Goldman collaborated with Steven Spielberg on An American Tail (1986) and The Land Before Time (1988) which opened to a record-breaking weekend gross of $7.5 million. After the Spielberg relationship, Bluth and Goldman went on to produce and direct All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989), Rock-A-Doodle (1990), A Troll in Central Park (1992), Thumbelina (1993) and most recently, 20th Century FoxÌs first animated film, Anastasia (1997). Digital Leisure is a leading publisher of interactive DVD-ROM and DVD-Video titles. The company acquires and remasters existing video-intensive titles that would benefit from the superior video and audio quality of DVD. The company can be contacted at http://www.digitalleisure.com