This Year Computer-animated Cartoons Don’t Make Oscar Hit List
CGI (computer-generated imagery) was ignored this year by the Academy’s animation branch. It opted for clay-animated, hand-drawn and stop-motion projects instead.
(PRWEB) February 12, 2006 -- The Academy's animation branch on Tuesday ignored such CGI (computer-generated imagery) box office heavies as "Madagascar" and "Robots" in favor of Hayao Miyazaki's hand-drawn "Howl's Moving Castle," Nick Park and Steve Box's clay-animated "Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" and Tim Burton and Mike Johnson's stop-motion "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride." To get the most current news and information for this year’s Academy Awards, held on March 5th, visit www.oscar.com.
A three-time Oscar winner for his short films, Aardman Animations director Park earned his first feature Oscar nomination with "Wallace." "I admire a lot of the computer-animated films this year," he said. "I found it very interesting that the Academy (didn't) choose the more commercially successful (animated films) this year."
The governor of the Academy's animation branch, Bill Kroyer, said the group isn't swayed by the popular vote at the box office. The branch is choosing the art and animation because it extends the medium from the animator’s perspective.
The Oscar-nominated cartoons this year all share a handmade quality and distinct directorial vision; they challenge the medium, unlike this year's computer-animated films, Kroyer said. For Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, owner and CEO of animator representation firm the Gotham Group, noted that despite the dominance of computer animation in the popular imagination, computer animators are great defenders of handmade animation because they are familiar with the effort that goes into making them.
On March 5th, the movie viewing public will see if the direction the animation world is what’s they can expect in years to come. For more information on entertainment news, go to www.exploretalent.com or www.1auditions.com.
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