Do you think Beowulf and Alvin and the Chipmunks should qualify to compete in the Best Animated Feature category for this year’s Academy Awards? Which three features do you think will be nominated when the dust settles?
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anon and on : office monkey : ugh
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
I\'d like to think that all CG-heavy flicks should be able to compete, considering it is basically an off-shoot of animation as a whole... though, that would be opening the door for just about anything nowadays. do I really think Spiderman should be competing against, say, Rataouille? ugh...
Evil Twin : Director : some place on the west side
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Do you reallllly think that Alvin and Co should be nominated for anything? I mean come on - seriously? Maybe for something like \" Most Unanticipated Animated Performance\" - but for little else....
Abhinav Das : student : maya
Saturday, November 17, 2007
good
Chuck :
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Beowulf, yes. Alvin, no.
When we\'re just inserting 3d characters into live-action films, how is that any different from the special effects category? Was Star Wars Ep 1 eligible for an animation oscar? How about the Lord of the Rings films?
I think that if you\'re going to use an animation technique/method in your film (motion capture/performance capture, 3d-cgi), then it should take up the majority of the film, not just be animated characters plugged into a live action film.
For example, In my book, I\'d put Bakshi\'s CoolWorld or Fire and Ice in the \'eligble for oscar\' category, but I wouldn\'t do the same for Garfield or Men In Black.
I don\'t want to denigrate the hard work and talent that the animators invest in animating films like MiB, but I think that there\'s already a category for those films: best special effects.
chris Henderson : producer : self
Monday, December 17, 2007
i agree with chuck, beowulf-yes, chipmunks-no.
cgi characters in a live action movie should be in spfx catagory.
beowulf, while looked like live action, was basically all animation, and i don\'t think that just because they used mo-cap, and a live action \'look\' they should not be allowed in the ani catagory.
(wasn\'t \'polar express\' considered animation? or final fantasy?) ...not that I prefer that style of animation, but it still IS animation.
jiji : lead animator :
Sunday, January 13, 2008
no way...bring back animation to the animators. there should be a different catagory for technology driven animation...
Beowolf has poor animation anyway, the fact that in facial closeups the nose doesn\'t move is very irritating and the horses don\'t move right.
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