Reinventing AnimationNation
Reviving AnimationNation ...
In the beginning the AnimationNation Movement was at its core an industrial reform effort for the benefit of animation artists everywhere but especially in the Hollywood arena. That was early 1999.
Here we are 25 years later and the industry that we knew back then no longer exists in the way we knew it. Virtually every standard has changed. The labor intensive production heavy studio centric system is gone. In 25 years time the industry has indeed ... reformed.
The Hollywood centric system that we knew is no longer the center of the animation universe. There has been a big bang and the universe is reforming into something different.
In 1999 AnimationNation was "The Voice of the Animation Industry". We gave voice to animation artists everywhere. We were a harbinger of change through that voice. Some took heed and some did not as the winds blew with a gale force. The storm has passed and we now face a new landscape. Some see that land as an end. I see it as a great new beginning and a new world to explore.
And that is what AnimationNation will do. Explore the age. Define the era. Help to set a new path for those that will follow into the new world..
This is the age we've been waiting for. The beginning of the Age of Imagination. An age of boundless creativity and limitless potential. Where creative labor turns to content authorship and content ownership. Where the means of production become ever more accessible to all.
Let's make the most of it.
Charles Zembillas
May 15 2024