Watertown, MA. --Boston-based FableVision Studios is celebrating it's recent success at last month's World Animation Celebration in Pasadena, California. Winning second place for "2D Computer Generated by an Independent", The Blue Shoe, a six-minute animated short, was a popular favorite at both the judging festival and its sister event The International Business Conference for Television Animation (IBCTA). Shortly after the conference, FableVision Studios announced its new international distribution partner London-based international Link TV Entertainment. The strategic partnership was the culmination of talks initiated at IBCTA.

The Blue Shoe, an original story by FableVision's Creative Director Peter Reynolds, is a modern fable about the elusive search for true love -- featuring a blue shoe and a green boot. The blue shoe's journey gradually reveals that sometimes the answers to our dreams are often the things we simply overlook.

The Blue Shoe is to be published in book-form by Summer 1998 through FableVision Press, FableVision's publishing division which has positioned itself as a new source of quality content that is being leveraged in all appropriate formats/platforms/media. Boston-based intellectual property lawyer Barbara Williams, who handled the successful licensing of the Curious George properties through Palmer & Dodge, has recently signed on to represent FableVision's literary works.

With direction and lead animation by Gary Goldberger and John Lechner, the FableVision team used Toon Boom Technologies' cutting-edge TicTacToon multi-plane animation system to bring The Blue Shoe to life. One of the biggest advantages of the system is its capability to stay completely digital, from artwork to final animated product, leading to high quality "D1" image resolution. Post production was provided by FableVision's sister company Boston-based CF Video & Interactive. Editor Keri Green provided off-line editorial. Adem Bush on-lined the six-minute short on Digital Betacam.

FableVision Studios is committed to creating positive children's programming and products. Under the leadership of Emmy-award winning partner and creative director Peter Reynolds, FableVision aims to create "stories that move" which promote messages of compassion, self-esteem and human potential. FableVision has been developing animation and interactive projects with clients such as WGBH-TV's ZOOM and Arthur, Sirius Thinking, Ltd., and The Pleasant Company's American Girl TV Show.

For more information on distribution or development of The Blue Shoe at FableVision Animation Studios, contact Jo Kavanagh-Payne, Senior VP, at Link Entertainment/London at (44) 181 996 4800 .