``The Iron Giant'' Writer-director and Artists to Appear At Warner Bros. Studio Store Gallery in Glendale.

BURBANK, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Dec. 2, 1999--

Brad Bird, writer and director of the critically acclaimed Warner Bros. animated feature film "The Iron Giant," and some of the key artistic visionaries behind the film will appear at Warner Bros. Studio Store Gallery on Sunday, December 5, from 3 to 5 p.m. to debut two limited edition works of art inspired by the film.

The key artists from "The Iron Giant" joining Bird include Mark Andrews, Storyboard Artist; Alan Bodner, Art Director; Tony Fucile, Head of Animation; Paul Rogers, Illustrator; Dennis Venizelos, Head of Background Department; Dean Wellins, Supervising Animator and Storyboard Artist; and Mark Whiting, Production Designer.

"The Iron Giant Character Collection," a series of fine art giclee prints featuring four of the film's main characters, will be debuted at the reception and is available only at Warner Bros. Studio Store Gallery special events. The unframed portfolio set is printed using the giclee process, which produces exceptional quality digital prints from electronic files. Included with the set is a tourage sheet that is hand-numbered and signed by Bird, Bodner, Andrews, Rogers, Fucile, Venizelos and Wellins.

The second piece debuting at the collectors' reception is "The Iron Giant" one-sheet, a limited edition, framed giclee print, developed by Bird and Whiting. The work combines design concepts from the film with the look of Soviet propaganda posters to yield a collision between movie posters; a clash of a low-brow monster movie and a highbrow foreign film. Each piece is hand-numbered and signed by Bird and Whiting.

Both the portfolio and the framed one-sheet are available in an edition size of 250. The retail price of each is $250.

"The Iron Giant," currently available from Warner Home Video, tells the story of Hogarth, a headstrong and imaginative boy who finds a 50-foot giant with an insatiable appetite for metal and a childlike curiosity about its new world. When rumors of the Iron Giant turn into paranoia, threatening the possible destruction of Rockwell, Maine, Hogarth turns to his friend, the Iron Giant, who ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving the town's residents from their own fears and prejudices.

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