Locomotion.com Animates Fans.Kids' primetime cabler Locomotion locomotion Any of various animal movements that result in progression from one place to another. Locomotion is classified as either appendicular (accomplished by special appendages) or axial (achieved by changing the body shape). , serving animation fans throughout Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. and the Iberian Peninsula Iberian Peninsula, c.230,400 sq mi (596,740 sq km), SW Europe, separated from the rest of Europe by the Pyrenees. Comprising Spain and Portugal, it is washed on the N and W by the Atlantic Ocean and on the S and E by the Mediterranean Sea; the Strait of Gibraltar , has launched Locomotion.com, an online animation community. The website, in English, Spanish and Portuguese, features original, made-for-the-web animated productions as well as chat rooms, e-cards and a digital art gallery featuring graphic design, photography and poetry. Rodrigo Piza, the general manager of Locomotion since January 1999, told Video Age that the gallery is a place "for people to express their art and share their enthusiasm for animation. So far, Locomotion.com has received 80 gallery submissions. Piza also foresees interactive chars beetween TV/web-show creators and website visitors. He said animation fans tend to be very interested in getting all the background information of a show. Animated productions on the site include: El Santos Santos (sän`t  s), city (1996 pop. 412,288), São Paulo state, SE Brazil, on the island of São Vicente in the Atlantic just off the mainland. , based on the
Mexican cult comic-strip character; Teevey, a character who inhabits a
dream-like world; and Rudo by Night, the story of a wrestling wrestling, sport in which two unarmed opponents grapple with one another. The object is to secure a fall, i.e., cause the opponent to lose balance and fall to the floor, and ultimately to pin the supine opponent's shoulders to the floor, through the use of body coach and
his athlets.
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