Mark Johnson and Charles Newirth produced the film for DreamWorks, and David Newman composed the music score.

Under the deal, Paramount is required to distribute the DreamWorks animated films for a small fee intended only to cover Paramount's out of pocket costs with no profit to the studio, including the Shrek franchise ( and ending for the 2004 installment, Shrek 2 ).

This acquisition was seen at the time as a stopgap measure as Brad Grey had been unsuccessful in assembling sufficient films for production and distribution and the DreamWorks films would fill the gap.

Producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen took American Beauty to DreamWorks ; the fledgling film studio bought Ball's script for $ 250, 000, outbidding several other production bodies.

Spacey was Mendes ' first choice for the role of Lester, even though DreamWorks had urged the director to consider better-known actors ; similarly, the studio suggested several actors for the role of Carolyn until Mendes offered the part to Bening without DreamWorks ' knowledge.

DreamWorks launched a major campaign to increase American Beautys chances of Academy Award success ; at the 72nd Academy Awards the following year, the film won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor ( for Spacey ), Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography.

With the help of executives Glenn Williamson and Bob Cooper, and Steven Spielberg in his capacity as studio partner, Ball was convinced to develop the project at DreamWorks ; he received assurances from the studio — known at the time for its more conventional fare — that it would not " iron the out ".

In an unusual move, DreamWorks decided not to option the script ; instead, in April 1998, the studio bought it outright for $ 250, 000, outbidding Fox Searchlight Pictures, October Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Lakeshore Entertainment.

DreamWorks planned to make the film for $ 6 – 8 million.

Mendes had Spacey and Bening in mind for the leads from the beginning, but DreamWorks executives were unenthusiastic.

DreamWorks made around one million copies available for rental ; Blockbuster's share would usually have been about 400, 000 of these.

DreamWorks had launched a major campaign for American Beauty five weeks before ballots were due to be sent to the 5, 600 Academy Award voters.

Nancy Willen encouraged DreamWorks to produce a special about the making of American Beauty, to set up displays of the film in the communities ' bookstores, and to arrange a question-and-answer session with Mendes for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

In 2000, the Publicists Guild of America recognized DreamWorks for the best film publicity campaign.

In 2002, California's AFI signed to DreamWorks Records and changed its sound considerably for its successful major label debut Sing the Sorrow.

On July 23, 2012, Classic Media was purchased by DreamWorks Animation for $ 155 million.

In 1997, he signed a contract with DreamWorks Records, the label for which he recorded two albums.

He also represented DreamWorks SKG and Steven Spielberg in defeating an application for an injunction against exhibition of Amistad.

She won an American People's Choice Award for voicing the wicked Fairy Godmother in the DreamWorks animated film Shrek 2, but more recently she has written and starred in another two BBC sitcoms, Jam and Jerusalem and The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle.

Witherspoon next provided the voice for Susan Murphy, the main character of the computer-animated 3-D feature film Monsters vs. Aliens, which had a March 27, 2009, release from DreamWorks Animation.

Animation illustrating Pythagorean theorem | Pythagoras ' rule for a right-angle triangle, which shows the algebraic relationship between the triangle's hypotenuse, and the other two sides.

Animation showing rainfall estimates for southern Japan and the surrounding region from July 20 – 27, 2009

* Animation for operations in 1950

* Animation for operations in 1951

The Ottawa International Animation Festival opened a machinima category in 2004, but, citing the need for " a certain level of excellence ", declined to award anything to the category's four entries that year.

Miyazaki left Toei in 1971 for Mushi Production, A Pro, Nippon Animation, and TMS Entertainment where he co-directed six episodes of the first Lupin III series with Isao Takahata.

Animation for most " Saturday morning cartoons " is produced as cheaply as possible, and is most often shot on " threes ", or even " fours ", i. e. three or four frames per drawing.

Animation became popular, especially for winning over youthful audiences.

Notable commercial radiosity engines are Enlighten by Geomerics, as seen in titles such as Battlefield 3, Need for Speed: The Run and others, Lightscape ( now incorporated into the Autodesk 3D Studio Max internal render engine ), form • Z RenderZone Plus by AutoDesSys, Inc .), the built in render engine in LightWave 3D and ElAS ( Electric Image Animation System ).

One of the main British Animation teams, John Hardwick and Bob Bura, were the main animators in many early British TV shows, and are famous for their work on the Trumptonshire trilogy.

SVG Web provides partial support for SVG 1. 1, SVG Animation ( SMIL ), Fonts, Video and Audio, DOM and style scripting.

* Computer Animation Festival: an annual festival for the world's most innovative, accomplished, and amazing digital film and video creators.

* Society for Animation Studies, an international scholarly organization

Individual achievement awards were awarded to Pam Coats for producing ; Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft for Directing ; Rita Hsiao, Christopher Sanders, Phillip LaZebnick, Raymond Singer and Eugenia Bostwick-Singer in Writing ; Chris Sanders for Storyboarding ; Hans Bacher for Production Design ; David Tidgwell for Effects Animation ; Ming-Na for Voice Acting Mulan ; Matthew Wilder, David Zippel and Jerry Goldsmith for music and Ruben A. Aquino for Character Animation.

RCA Victor has an ambitious and useful project in a stereo series called `` Adventures In Music '', which is an instructional record library for elementary schools.

There is no registration fee but there will be a charge of $2.50 for the luncheon to be held in the library and fine arts building.

The AID has undertaken the redecoration of the White House library as a project in connection with the work being done by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's Fine Arts Advisory Committee to secure antiques for the presidential home.

The local community maintains responsibility for the financial support of its own library program, facilities, and services, but wider resources and additional services become available through membership in a system.

The basic state grant is thirty cents for each person served, and there is a further book incentive grant that provides an extra twenty cents up to fifty cents per capita, if a library spends a certain number of dollars.

Schools and community groups turn to the headquarters film library for documentary, art, and experimental films to show at libraries that sponsor local programs, and to organizations in member communities.

Workshops are conducted by the system's audio-visual consultant for the staffs of member libraries, teaching them the effective use of film as a library service.

In addition to the interlibrary loan service and the children's program, headquarters has a public relations director who seeks to get wider grassroots support for quality library service in the county ; ;

There are, for example, approximately 25,000,000 people in this country with no public library service and about 50,000,000 with inadequate service.

* Framewave, formerly the APL, the AMD Performance Library, a compiler library for AMD multi-core processors

Here is the BNF for Algol60 and the ICL2900 compiler source, library documentation, and a considerable test suite including Brian Wichmann's tests.

It is probable that the first collection of astronomical observations and terrestrial omens was made for a library established by Sargon.

Nevertheless, he admits, humans and animals differ in mental faculties in a number of ways, including: differences in memory and attention, inferential abilities, ability to make deductions in a long chain, ability to grasp ideas more or less clearly, the human capacity to worry about conflating unrelated circumstances, a sagely prudence which arrests generalizations, a capacity for a greater inner library of analogies to reason with, an ability to detach oneself and scrap one's own biases, and an ability to converse through language ( and thus gain from the experience of others ' testimonies ).

Carnegie's education and passion for reading was given a great boost by Colonel James Anderson, who opened his personal library of 400 volumes to working boys each Saturday night.

In the following year, Carnegie gave $ 40, 000 for the establishment of a free library in Dunfermline.

To secure local interest, in 1885, he gave $ 500, 000 to Pittsburgh for a public library, and in 1886, he gave $ 250, 000 to Allegheny City for a music hall and library ; and $ 250, 000 to Edinburgh for a free library.

On one hand, the library profession called for designs that supported efficiency in administration and operation ; on the other, wealthy philanthropists favored buildings that reinforced the paternalistic metaphor and enhanced civic pride.