Tim Burton’s Annie Award acceptance speech
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Quick, watch the first five minutes of this before the Academy removes it from You Tube: (Thanks, Matthew Gaastra)
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ASIFA-Hollywood announced its nominees for the 2009 Annie Awards this morning. For Best Animated Feature, Sony’s Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs , Laika’s Coraline, Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox , Disney’s The Princess and the Frog, Cartoon Saloon’s The Secret of Kells and Pixar’s Up were nominated. Nods...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the winners of the 37th Annual Student Academy Awards competition, and three shorts shared the prize for animated film. I’ve linked to two of them which have already been posted online. Congrats to all! • Departure of Love Jennifer Bors, Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida
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The Tim Burton retrospective opens on November 22 at MoMA . Animation has played a significant role in Burton’s career, and continues to figure into his work as evidenced by this animated trailer he created to promote the exhibit: CREDITS Directed by Tim Burton Produced by Mackinnon and Saunders CGI Animation: Flix Facilities Animation: Chris...
Until Asifa-Hollywood posts the official videos of this year’s Annie Awards (2/5/10 at UCLA’s Royce Hall), we’ll have to do with hand-held shakey cam videos popping up on You Tube. This one was shot from the nose-bleed seats, and the center screen is too bright to be properly photographed, but it does give you a sense of the event...
Last night I attended the opening of the Tim Burton exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and quite simply, it’s terrific! I’ll be writing more about it soon, but if you are in the NY area anytime between now and next April, make a point of checking out this show. We got in a bit earlier than most folks last night, and while we were...
The 37th Annual Annie Awards were given out tonight at Royce Hall on the UCLA Campus. The winners included: Best Animated Feature Up (Pixar Animation Studios) Best Animated Television Production Prep and Landing — (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Best Home Entertainment Production Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder Best Animated Short Subject...
Oops, I meant to post this two days ago, and as usual I forgot to actually check to make sure my computer did something after clicking something else. Anyway, below is a great interview tipped off to me by Elias Dancey. It comes from a Comic-Con panel with Ralph Bakshi. And like a wise old Jedi he’s got some nuggets of wisdom for us younger...
Chris Meledandri and his Universal-based Illumination Entertainment (Despicable Me) have acquired the rights to Charles Addams famous cartoon family for Tim Burton to direct as a stop-mo 3D feature film. Michael Fleming at Deadline Hollywood has the scoop. The article also outlines Universal’s future animated feature release plans: the April...
Indiana born, Seattle based illustrator, painter, comic book artist and 3D gaming environmental artist Jamie Burton studied at the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, and then at the Joe Kubert School of Art in New Jersey, where he prepared for subsequent work as a comic book inker for DC Comics. Burton transitioned into concept and environmental...
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