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		Meet New York's New ANImagician (Continued from Page 1 ) Nodelman was hired by Creative Group CEO's and Chairman Joseph Avallone and President Tom DeFeo earlier this year to help build an animation studio in an already burgeoning multi-media company. “As a CPA, Joe is the real business man and Tom is an Emmy-award-winning editor with decades of experience, and they both have a distinct vision for what they want this place to be,” says Nodelman. “Tom is a storytelling pro, and he's directing one of our flagship projects, Nate the Great.” ANImagic is slated to produce forty 22-minute Flash-animated episodes of Nate the Great for PBS, in which Nodelman acts as art director, to begin airing in 2008. In addition, the studio is producing an original CG 7-minute short for the festival circuit called Tree Elves, an international project utilizing Creative Group's wholly owned Beijing animation facility. The beginning of next year, ANImagic goes into production on its first feature film, The Fourth Horseman. It will be the first animated feature for Fangoria Entertainment, one of the most recognizable leaders in the world of horror and also a subsidiary of Creative Group. Both projects will be directed and written by Nodelman. The studio already got some attention for its online revival of Speedracer earlier this year.
		“I want this place to be said in the same breath as the great story-telling studios in Los Angeles. As you walk through ANImagic, it's like an animation campus because we have the ability to go from concept through completion, just like the big Hollywood boys. Real estate is expensive in the city and any room that doesn't generate revenue can be seen as wasted space,” says Nodelman, “but ANImagic is fully funded by its parent company, the Creative Group, and their goal is to be creating and working on projects that we own the rights to, that we can then generate revenue through. The best way we can do that is to have a place where the artists can get together and talk through the process.”	Jeff Nodelman
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Meet New York's New ANImagician