Issue #147 April 2005

Gaming - BLITZ expands its gaming division; Will smaller companies beat the big guys at their game? Feature - Katsuhiro Otomo's "Steamboy" offers a stunning adventure set in Victorian England; "Sprung! The Magic Roundabout" puts a CG spin on a vintage French stop-motion show; Don Hertzfeldt and Mike Judge take their "Animation Show" on the road; Vanguard Animation's "Valiant" flies on U.S. screens; Why toon pros are drawn to Germany's world-class Cartoon Movie event. Television - How "Timmy's Lessons in Nature" made its creators feel like proud parents; The mad geniuses at Bent Image Lab come up with some wonderful experiments. VFX - ESC and Tippett Studio unleash a legion of impressive demons in "Constantine"; VFX supervisor John Bruno comes clean about the dark secrets of "Alien vs. Predator".