1.   Fox Kids Worldwide said it competes with major motion picture studios, including Walt Disney Co. and animation production companies, for the services of writers and producers.

2.   He has already lined up a job in California with Silent Planet, an animation company based in Orlando, Fla.

3.   In a movie from Pixar, the computer animation company, thousands of ants are threatened by a small but efficiently intimidating gang of grasshoppers.

4.   It was produced by Scholastic Productions in association with Nelvana Limited, an animation company, with substantial financing from the National Science Foundation.

5.   Nelvana is a leading Canadian animation company.

6.   New World also has a programming library, ownership of Stephen Cannell Productions and a stake in the animation company Klasky Csupo Inc.

7.   One MASS MoCA tenant, Kleiser-Walczak Construction, a film special-effects and animation company, knows the connection problem firsthand.

8.   Ross, who had little business experience, in turn made an arrangement with Nelvana, a small Canadian animation company, to transform Babar into a global brand.

9.   The baby was born as a demonstration of what Kinetix, a San Francisco-based animation software company, could do.

10.   The deal should help Pacific Data Images expand beyond its role as a niche computer animation company into a more full-service animation company.