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Studio 125 is pleased to announce the release of “Me and Jessie D. With the Kids World Kids.” This DVD is packed with approximately 90 minutes of cartoons, live action adventures, funny scenes and bonus features. Here’s more info about what to expect!

JOIN IN THE FUN WITH THE KIDS WORLD KIDS AND THEIR CARTOON FRIENDS FROM THE BAYOU!

The Kids World Kids prepare for a fish fry and go on some great adventures to an alligator farm and an aquarium. Packed between their adventures are two great episodes of the Me & Jessie D. Cartoon. In “The Fish Fry,” Boo challenges Rufus to a fishing contest and in “Boo Flies,” Boo is determined to learn to fly like the Crow Brothers.

Studio 125 Productions CEO Scott Stewart unpacks some of the 50,000 DVDs delivered to Studio 125 shipping and receiving. It turns out 50k DVDs take up hefty amount of floorspace. Special thanks to all who made getting our discs printed possible and thanks to Discmakers.com for a great printing and duplicating job. Now it’s on to the stores! Check out MeAndJessieD.com for locations and 0nline ordering

Me & Jessie D. “The Fish Fry” took home first place at the Rocket City Short Film Festival - 2008, in Huntsville, Alabama. Not bad for our first public showing! Me & Jessie D. will be available on DVD in November. Check out www.meandjessied.com for the latest information on availability.

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Building an animation company is challenging to say the least. Often it seems that success comes easily to others, but the truth of the challenges and obstacles animation companies face on the road to success often remains unknown. If you thrive on learning how others overcome struggles and challenges, you will find “The Pixar Touch” by David Price, to be a gold mine of inspiration.

Price reaches back into the early days of computer technology and chronicles the journeys of the key players behind the success of Pixar. You will learn that it took a burning desire to make computer animation and it took an extra measure of perseverance to conquer the technical challenges of creating the computers and software to make it possible. If you thought learning a 3D application was hard work, imagine having to invent the application and the computer to run it before you could even get started. Then you realize that you need to learn how to tell stories and how to do character animation and then you have find some one who believe in it enough to pay for it.

This book made me realize how much I owe to the team behind Pixar for the priviledge of working in computer animation. It is the success of Pixar which popularized the medium and consequently created the industry which produces the animation tools we use today. Don’t let tech talk scare you. Price does a great job explaining technological issues in common language. Price also gives us a hard look into the topsy-turvy business transactions, near misses, dashed hopes, and ultimate triumphs of a business that for many, many years could not figure out how to make money.

Rarely do I take the time to sit down with a book that isn’t an outright how-to guide on animation or animation production but in the case of “The Pixar Touch” I had to make an exception. I enjoyed the book so much I had a hard time putting it down. I can highly recommend it for anyone who has a fascination with animation. I am excited to see how well Pixar carries on its string of successes with the upcoming film Wall-e.

Until then…

Happy animating and happy reading!

Michael Thoenes