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| Madame Tutli-directors Chris Lavis (l) and Maciek Szczerbowski (2nd r) share a laugh with Maciek's mother and the head of the NFB Tom Perlmutter. © 2008 AWN Inc. |
The night before the Big Night was a chance for the animation community to come together for the 18th annual Chocolate Fosca party, which was hosted by Marilyn Zornado and Libby Simon at the home of Renate Kempowski and Paul Demeyer. The annual event was originally started by Mike Gribble, the co-founder of the Spike & Mike festival, as a way to celebrate the animated shorts nominees. Originally called the Chocolate Oscars, the event was renamed after Fosca, a character from Marv Newland’s Anijam, after the Academy objected to the creation of chocolate Oscars. View the fun that was had by all.
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Categories : Photo Galleries, Oscar Tour 2008, Madame Tutli-Putli, Peter and the Wolf, My Love, Chocolate Foscas, I Met the Walrus, Even Pigeons Go to Heaven
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| Oscar winner Suzie Templeton gets a chance to talk with My Love director Alexander Petrov. © 2008 AWN Inc. |
The day before the Oscars DreamWorks hosts a brunch at Campanile. Look at the animation who’s who gallery.
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Categories : Photo Galleries, Oscar Tour 2008, Madame Tutli-Putli, Peter and the Wolf, DreamWorks Animation, My Love, I Met the Walrus, Even Pigeons Go to Heaven
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| Oscar-winner Hugh Welchman, producer of Peter and the Wolf, chats with DreamWorks exec John Tarnoff after lunch. © 2008 AWN Inc. |
On Thursday, Feb. 24th, the Oscar Showcase tour pulled into DreamWorks. View the fun we had there.
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Categories : Photo Galleries, Oscar Tour 2008, Madame Tutli-Putli, Peter and the Wolf, DreamWorks Animation, I Met the Walrus, Even Pigeons Go to Heaven
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| Oscar-winner Suzie Templeton (2nd left) hangs out in front of Joseph's with animator Rosto (l), along with BUF producer Lucie Bloze and Even Pigeons Go To Heaven producer Simon Vanesse. © 2008 AWN Inc. |
After a long day at Disney, the evening of Feb. 20th was for fun. Check out the photos from the annual Acme/AWN Oscar party.
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Categories : Photo Galleries, Oscar Tour 2008, Madame Tutli-Putli, Peter and the Wolf, Acme/AWN Party, I Met the Walrus, Even Pigeons Go to Heaven
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| Tour host Ron Diamond (l) and Madame Tutli-Putli director Maciek Szczerbowski (r) run into John Lasseter on the Disney lot. © 2008 AWN Inc. |
On Feb. 20th, the day belonged to Disney on the Oscar Showcase tour. Here is the photographic evidence.
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Categories : Photo Galleries, Oscar Tour 2008, Ed Catmull, Madame Tutli-Putli, Peter and the Wolf, John Lasseter, Andreas Deja, Walt Disney Animation, I Met the Walrus, Even Pigeons Go to Heaven
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| The Oscar nominees (l to r) Maciek Szczerbowski, Chris Lavis, Hugh Welchman, Suzie Templeton, evening MC director Curtis Hanson, Josh Raskin, Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse. © 2008 A.M.P.A.S. |
On the evening of Feb. 19th, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences hosted a screening of the animated and live-action shorts. Check out the pictures from the star-studded event.
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Categories : Photo Galleries, Oscar Tour 2008, Madame Tutli-Putli, Peter and the Wolf, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, John Lasseter, I Met the Walrus, Even Pigeons Go to Heaven
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| Oscar winner Suzie Templeton (l to r) grabbed a cup of coffee with boyfriend Rosto and Madame Tutli-Putli director Chris Lavis. © 2008 AWN Inc. |
The second stop on the L.A. leg of the Oscar Showcase tour was on Tuesday, Feb. 19th at 20th Century Fox. So here are some more pics.
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Categories : Photo Galleries, Oscar Tour 2008, Madame Tutli-Putli, Peter and the Wolf, 20th Century Fox, I Met the Walrus, Even Pigeons Go to Heaven
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| I Met the Walrus director Josh Raskin (2nd left) talks about how he has been describing his producer Jerry Levitan (center). © 2008 AWN Inc. |
Here are some more pics from the first stop on the L.A. leg of the Oscar Showcase tour - Sony Pictures Animation.
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Categories : Photo Galleries, Oscar Tour 2008, Madame Tutli-Putli, Peter and the Wolf, Sony Pictures Animation, I Met the Walrus, Even Pigeons Go to Heaven
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| At DreamWorks, the group poses with famed children's author Bill Joyce (center in black jacket). © 2008 AWN Inc. |
With the Oscar Showcase beginning to slow down, Thursday marked our chance to see DreamWorks L.A. While the screening was taking place, John Tarnoff, the head of the DreamWorks’ “incubator” department, showed us around the facility. After seeing production art from Bee Movie, Kung-Fu Panda and Madagascar 2, we got to see some production art and CG characters from DreamWorks’ 2009 releases Monsters vs. Aliens and How to Train Your Dragon. Being that Monsters vs. Aliens is the studio’s first stereoscopic production and the release date was moved up to March, the production is in furious mode. In regards to the challenges of working in 3-D, John said that DreamWorks looks at stereoscopic as they do stereo sound – a subtle enrichment of the movie going experience. Though the release will not be in 3-D, a test was done using the opening action sequence from Kung-Fu Panda to discover the limits to which they could push the technology. David Verrall, the exec producer of Madame Tutli-Putli, who has a hand in every English language film produced at the NFB, said they have artists working on eight foot screens for stereoscopic productions so they can get a better idea of how the mind processes the images as they are working on them.
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Categories : Personal Musings, Oscar Tour 2008, Madame Tutli-Putli, Peter and the Wolf, DreamWorks Animation, I Met the Walrus, Even Pigeons Go to Heaven
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| Disney TV artists learn more about how the nominated films were made. © 2008 AWN Inc. |
After a nice long break where some filmmakers, like Madame Tutli-Putli directors Maciek Szczerbowski and Chris Lavis, Peter and the Wolf director Suzie Templeton, and Even Pigeons Go To Heaven director Samuel Tourneux and Pigeons producer Simon Vanesse, had to run off to do interviews, the ones who were able to stay chatted with the inquisitive artists at Disney TV Animation. Many of the questions were similar to questions asked before, but new insights did emerge.
Because no one from Pigeons was there to answer the question on what was the inspiration behind the films, Peter and the Wolf producer Hugh Welchman answered the question on behalf of Sam and Simon, saying that Sam had created the characters and sets for a story he did not like and then had to form a new story around what he had already created. He also added that Sam had said in another Q&A that he wanted the film to “reek of France.” But Peter producer Alan Dewhurst said it was more like “smell of France.” As for Alexander Petrov’s My Love, Madame Tutli-Putli producer Marcy Page, who worked with Petrov on The Old Man in the Sea, said that it’s amazing to watch the filmmaker move paint around on glass with his fingers creating a Rembrandt with each frame. When asked how long the films took to make, Ron Diamond, the organizer of the Oscar Showcase tour, joked six weeks for the 20+ minute My Love.
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Categories : Personal Musings, Oscar Tour 2008, Madame Tutli-Putli, Peter and the Wolf, Disney TV Animation, I Met the Walrus, Even Pigeons Go to Heaven
