Andrew
06-15-2006, 11:18 AM
New town for toons / Animation exec hopes Jerusalem a big draw (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/15/BUGDAJE7QI1.DTL&feed=rss.business) -- SFGate, 2006-06-15
Through his work in animation, Max Howard helped to create such unlikely pairings as Bob Hoskins and Roger Rabbit, and Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny. Now Howard, a quintessential, cricket-playing Englishman, has left California to open a start-of-the-art animation studio in this unlikely place.
It will be the largest animation and gaming studio outside Hollywood -- spearheading a revolution in animated feature films that Howard believes is just beginning. He hopes the new studio will help transform Israel into a world player in the multimillion-dollar film industry.
Through his work in animation, Max Howard helped to create such unlikely pairings as Bob Hoskins and Roger Rabbit, and Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny. Now Howard, a quintessential, cricket-playing Englishman, has left California to open a start-of-the-art animation studio in this unlikely place.
It will be the largest animation and gaming studio outside Hollywood -- spearheading a revolution in animated feature films that Howard believes is just beginning. He hopes the new studio will help transform Israel into a world player in the multimillion-dollar film industry.