Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Animation station stops here

When you think "animation," you probably think of Tinseltown.

But what about Hollywood on the Hudson?

"We want people to know that this area has influenced the (animation) industry," says the Westchester Arts Council's Julia Dixon. "It doesn't just happen in Hollywood.

"Over the years, 500 animators and/or studios have been located in the Westchester-New York City region."

Many of them are among the cast of characters in "It All Started Here," a coming Arts Council exhibit (Jan. 20-Feb. 28) for which Dixon serves as coordinator.

The show - which will be previewed at a Jan. 17 reception at the council's Arts Exchange building in White Plains - surveys the animated stars and technology that have been created in the county and the Big Apple over the past 100 years, from Gertie the Dinosaur (1914), the first animated-cartoon character, to the rascally prehistoric critters of the "Ice Age" movies.

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