A few topics of interest on a rainy weekend:
Eighteen "animated" feature submissions to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. ...
Harold and Kumar get animated, maybe. (Since live action isn't enough.)
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment downsizes in Seattle.
Owen Wilson talks about cartoon voice-work.
Speaking of the Oscars: Andy Serkis pushed for Academy Award for Mo-Cap performance.
The American Film Institute Festival showcases nine animated shorts.
John Lasseter gets his star on Hollywood Boulevard.
The Magic Kingdom's "Snow White's Scary Adventures" will soon be slipped the axe. (Say it ain't so, Mr. Iger ...)
The L.A. Times profiles "Gundam" anime.
Animation producer Don Hahn recounts the trials and tribulations making The Lion King ... and other cartoon features.
Enjoy what's left of the weekend.
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> As expected, the performance-capture films "The Adventures of Tintin" from Paramount, Warner Bros.' "Happy Feet Two" and Disney's "Mars Needs Moms," have been submitted in the animated category.
Interesting. Will Lasseter and his crowd bounce these movies for not being "real animation?"
Yes--and rightfully so. Virtually the entire branch--Lasster or not--considers motion capture a wonderful effect. But not "animation."
Animation is defined as a performance entirely created from scratch, frame by frame.
As it should be.
Once they're accepted for nomination it's unlikely they will be "bounced".
Considering Happy Feet beat the pants off of a Pixar film previously I'm sure JL tried his best to avoid that embarrassment from happening again.
Happy Feet getting an Oscar over Cars is the biggest joke in the history of the animation award. My two kids, as well as myself, were VERY under-whelmed by the penguin flick. Cars was a movie we liked on the first watch, and gets even better on multiple viewings.
From the article on Andy Serkis:
"The emotionality of the character on screen is not provided by the animators, it's provided by the actor." - Tom Rothman, co-chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment.
As Eisenstein proved, the emotionality of a character can also be provided by the editing, the score and the context of the scene.
Happy Feet getting an Oscar over Cars is the biggest joke in the history of the animation award. Cars was a movie we liked on the first watch, and gets even better on multiple viewings.
This is like arguing that a McDonald's Egg McMuffin is more deserving of a Michelin Guide 4-star rating than a package of Maple brown sugar Instant Oatmeal.
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