This will be through Rougemont Global Broadcasting as a web site and/or collection of short video and web links. It could be conventional TV series later. Budget needed for some studio links. Meanwhile people can construct their own through YouTube and other sites.

It follows up material found through Animxtra, a fringe for Animated Exeter. There are now three relevant videos from Exeter TV so more can follow.

The development would stay roughly in balance with a five episodes, eventually one hour each

A. A New Canvas

Based on program edited by Greg Kurcewicz. This covers pioneer work from the 60s and 70s.

most can only be shown on film so is rare. The only example on youtube was a TV ident, now gone "This video has been removed due to terms of use violation." We may just have to use stills and a voiceover.

Opinion: someone should rescue this stuff quick and fund a scanning project.

B. Anyware

Anyware was one of the first online events with involvement from Psand. I don't think they regard it as animation, but much of what comes over could be seen as such. the idea is to stream something live. Can take any form. Some is recorded. The concern is what to do with broadband in a creative situation.

Links from Anyware New York Vague TV

C. Games and Machinema

Games history, aniamtion based on games. No shortage of material. Exeter has had several Games Days so there could be interviews next time

D. Demoscene

We have one interview with Kris Sum loaded on Google Video. It is a bit out of date in that there is no mention of Sundown in the UK but it covers the origins of demoscene ok. There may be more interviews from Sundown 2007.

src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-8903245782182232270&hl=en"

Meanwhile demoscene tv has found a way to broadcast to most Windows PCs.

There is a video on Sundown including a talk by Mark Shuttleworth on idents in Ubuntu. Needs an update.

E. DVD

There are some collections on DVD of material that has been edited or else is too large a file to be streamed. Unlike some scene material it is designed to play in a standard DVD player. In theory it could reach a bigger screen.

In Devon so far most ideas about this have come from Paul Gillard. There are some small scale samples on his site.

http://www.podmovies.com/movies.html

http://www.paulgillard.com/movie/digital-media.html

There will be other examples of paid content designed for DVD.

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