Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Wendy Jackson Hall
This article is taken in part from the notice posted in Animation World Network and is reproduced with their permission.
Independent animator/educator/writer Wendy Jackson Hall passed away Nov. 14, 2005, in Bainbridge Island, Washington. She was hospitalized over the past weekend for blood clots in her lungs and was trying to get stabilized enough undergo biopsies for cancer when she died of complications. She was 32.
An alumnus of the Rhode Island School of Design, she was part of the early core of AWN & Animation World Network, which she joined in 1996 as a sales rep and advanced to associate editor of the magazine. She departed the online publication at the end of 1999 and went on to write about animation for many publications such as the ANIMATION JOURNAL, ANIMATION MAGAZINE, ASIFA NEWS, AWN, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, VARIETY and WIRED MAGAZINE.
While a busy freelance journalist specializing in animation, she taught animation production courses at Santa Monica College as well as schools in California and Massachusetts before getting married to Porter Hall and soon moved up to Washington where she continued to teach, write, animate and consult to animation clients that included AtomFilms and Nicktoons. Jackson Hall served the Ottawa 00 International Jury.
But prior to all that she was general manager of our office here at ASIFA-Hollywood. In those years Wendy helped coordinate events such as the 1995 Annie Awards and the 1996 Animation Opportunities Expo. She was a great asset in those years, whose cheerful smile and demeanor set a pleasant tone around the ASIFA office.
Wendy was a young woman, with family and career who was taken much too soon. Our hearts go out to her family.
Board of Directors
ASIFA-Hollywood ¶ 9:42 AM
Independent animator/educator/writer Wendy Jackson Hall passed away Nov. 14, 2005, in Bainbridge Island, Washington. She was hospitalized over the past weekend for blood clots in her lungs and was trying to get stabilized enough undergo biopsies for cancer when she died of complications. She was 32.
An alumnus of the Rhode Island School of Design, she was part of the early core of AWN & Animation World Network, which she joined in 1996 as a sales rep and advanced to associate editor of the magazine. She departed the online publication at the end of 1999 and went on to write about animation for many publications such as the ANIMATION JOURNAL, ANIMATION MAGAZINE, ASIFA NEWS, AWN, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, VARIETY and WIRED MAGAZINE.
While a busy freelance journalist specializing in animation, she taught animation production courses at Santa Monica College as well as schools in California and Massachusetts before getting married to Porter Hall and soon moved up to Washington where she continued to teach, write, animate and consult to animation clients that included AtomFilms and Nicktoons. Jackson Hall served the Ottawa 00 International Jury.
But prior to all that she was general manager of our office here at ASIFA-Hollywood. In those years Wendy helped coordinate events such as the 1995 Annie Awards and the 1996 Animation Opportunities Expo. She was a great asset in those years, whose cheerful smile and demeanor set a pleasant tone around the ASIFA office.
Wendy was a young woman, with family and career who was taken much too soon. Our hearts go out to her family.
Board of Directors
ASIFA-Hollywood ¶ 9:42 AM
