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		<title>Oscar Showcase Tour 09 LucasFilm Gallery</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From France to Skywalker Ranch - four of the six Oktapodi directors - Olivier, Francois, Emud and Quentin.
On Friday the 13th, the Oscar tour made stops throughout the Lucas empire, including Skywalker Ranch, Big Rock, and ILM. Here some the great pics from the adventures.

La Maison's Kunio Kato and Robot Communications' Taki Tsuyoshi in the [...] <p>&nbsp;</p><p>This site is a member of <a href="http://animationblogs.com/">Animation blogspot</a>, part of the <a href="http://awn.com/">Animation World Network</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="From France to Skywalker Ranch - four of the six Oktapodi directors - Olivier, Francois, Emud and Quentin." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-Oktapodi-Skywalker.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>From France to Skywalker Ranch - four of the six Oktapodi directors - Olivier, Francois, Emud and Quentin.</td></tr></table>
<p>On Friday the 13th, the Oscar tour made stops throughout the Lucas empire, including Skywalker Ranch, Big Rock, and ILM. Here some the great pics from the adventures.</p>
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<p><img alt="La Maison's Kunio Kato and Robot Communications' Taki Tsuyoshi in the Ranch library." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-Kunio-Taki_Library.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>La Maison's Kunio Kato and Robot Communications' Taki Tsuyoshi in the Ranch library.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Presto director Doug Sweetland kneels for a pic inside the library." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-Doug.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Presto director Doug Sweetland kneels for a pic inside the library.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Presto composer Scot Stafford" src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-Scot.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Presto composer Scot Stafford</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Emud with the much debated Maxfield Parrish, is it an original or not?" src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-Emud-Maxwell-Painting.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Emud with the much debated Maxfield Parrish, is it an original or not?</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="The famous library stairs pics - 09 edition." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-LibraryStairs.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>The famous library stairs pics - 09 edition.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Oktapodi's Olivier Delabarre" src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-Olivier.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Oktapodi's Olivier Delabarre</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="More beautiful pic locations at the Skywalker Ranch." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-Lucasfilm.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>More beautiful pic locations at the Skywalker Ranch.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Inside the Tech Building's lush Stag Theater." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-StagTheater.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Inside the Tech Building's lush Stag Theater.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Filmmakers from around the globe bonded forever." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-BigRock-Group.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Filmmakers from around the globe bonded forever.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Inside the Big Rock theater." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-BigRock-TheaterWide.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Inside the Big Rock theater.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Ron Diamond poses with ILM's Kate Shaw." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-Ron-Kate.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Ron Diamond poses with ILM's Kate Shaw.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Kunio excited!" src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-Kunio.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Kunio excited!</td></tr></table><p>
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		<title>San Fran Whirlwind - PDI, Skywalker Ranch, ILM, ASIFA, George Lucas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The filmmakers meet the George Lucas.
written by Barbara Robertson
It&#8217;s been a busy an exciting three days, but such a wonderful time. Some highlights and pictures. I’ll sketch in details tomorrow.

The tour checks in at PDI.
Thursday: A champagne reception, a screening, and a tour at PDI, plus a live demo of the studio’s amazing video wall [...] <p>&nbsp;</p><p>This site is a member of <a href="http://animationblogs.com/">Animation blogspot</a>, part of the <a href="http://awn.com/">Animation World Network</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="The filmmakers meet the George Lucas." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-group-with-george.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>The filmmakers meet the George Lucas.</td></tr></table>
<p><em>written by Barbara Robertson</em></p>
<p>It&#8217;s been a busy an exciting three days, but such a wonderful time. Some highlights and pictures. I’ll sketch in details tomorrow.</p>
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<p><img alt="The tour checks in at PDI." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D2-pdi-check-in.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>The tour checks in at PDI.</td></tr></table>
<p>Thursday: A champagne reception, a screening, and a tour at PDI, plus a live demo of the studio’s amazing video wall during which Eric at PDI made a dinner appointment with John from DreamWorks in Glendale who would be flying to San Francisco on Friday.</p>
<p>Thursday night: Skywalker Ranch</p>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="The filmmakers prepare for the awesomeness of Skywalker Ranch." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-at-skywalker-ranch.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>The filmmakers prepare for the awesomeness of Skywalker Ranch.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Outside Skywalker Sound." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-skywalker4.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Outside Skywalker Sound.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Classic Pic in the Ranch Library." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-skywalker-library.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Classic Pic in the Ranch Library.</td></tr></table><p><br />
</p><table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Westward ho for Robot Communications' Taki Tsuyoshi and Presto director Doug Sweetland." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-Taki-and-Doug.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Westward ho for Robot Communications' Taki Tsuyoshi and Presto director Doug Sweetland.</td></tr></table>
<p>Friday morning: We had boxes of cereal and breakfast bars in our rooms, coffee and milk in the refrigerator, but most of us walked to the “The Inn” for breakfast. Then, we screamed through Skywalker Sound, hurried up the road past vultures sunning their long wings, to the main house where George Lucas has his office and film library, scurried back down the road on a glorious sunny morning, jumped in the big white van, drove to nearby Big Rock where the group animating the television series work, held the first of three screenings and Q&amp;A’s today, and then zigzagged back on Lucas Valley Road to the freeway to make an 11:30 date at ILM in San Francisco.</p>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Outside Big Rock." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-big-rock3.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Outside Big Rock.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Oktapodi's Olivier Delabarre (m) chats with tour master Ron Diamond (l) and his fellow director Francois-Xavier Chanioux about the experience." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-big-rock-screening.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Oktapodi's Olivier Delabarre (m) chats with tour master Ron Diamond (l) and his fellow director Francois-Xavier Chanioux about the experience.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Before the Big Rock screening with Ron (l-r), Olivier, and Oktapodi's Quentin Marmier." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-big-rock2.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Before the Big Rock screening with Ron (l-r), Olivier, and Oktapodi's Quentin Marmier.</td></tr></table>
<p>Our gracious host Kate Shaw led us all to George Lucas’s office. Amazingly, George Lucas gave the Oscar nominees more than a half hour of his time – more about that later. After, the screening in ILM’s grand theater, which was totally packed, the Q&amp;A, lunch in a private dining room off the main dining room with some of the ILM artists, and a break before the next screening – with ASIFA at Dolby labs.</p>
<p>The directors have loosened up now. They’ve become much more comfortable onstage, more of the Oktapodi directors are now answering questions, and they’ve become friends as you’ll see in the pictures. More words tomorrow.</p>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="The arrival at ILM." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-arrive-at-ILM.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>The arrival at ILM.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="The great Kate Shaw (r) gets the filmmakers ready for their tour of ILM." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-ILM-lobby-Kate.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>The great Kate Shaw (r) gets the filmmakers ready for their tour of ILM.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Oktapodi's Francois-Xavier Chanioux relaxes in the Lucasfilm lobby." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-francois-LucasFilm-lobby.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Oktapodi's Francois-Xavier Chanioux relaxes in the Lucasfilm lobby.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Tired yet?" src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-ILM-lobby.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Tired yet?</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="La Maison's Kunio Kato (l-r), Taki and Lavatory Lovestory's Konstantin Bronzit take in some downtime." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-kunio-taki-konstantin-in.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>La Maison's Kunio Kato (l-r), Taki and Lavatory Lovestory's Konstantin Bronzit take in some downtime.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Oktapodi directors Olivier, Quentin and Emud Mokhberi discuss life after ILM." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-olivier-quentin-emud-at-.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Oktapodi directors Olivier, Quentin and Emud Mokhberi discuss life after ILM.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Can't miss another group shot opportunity." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-ILM-lobby-and-the-group.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Can't miss another group shot opportunity.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="The ILM wonders begin." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-ILM-hallway.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>The ILM wonders begin.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Konstantin takes a pic of the Jurassic Park T-Rex." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-konstantin-dino-at-ILM.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Konstantin takes a pic of the Jurassic Park T-Rex.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Olivier checks out the Judge Doom prop from Who Framed Roger Rabbit." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-olivier-at-ILM.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Olivier checks out the Judge Doom prop from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="George Lucas poses with nominee Kunio Kato." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-george10.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>George Lucas poses with nominee Kunio Kato.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="George Lucas meets with the filmmakers." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-with-George2.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>George Lucas meets with the filmmakers.</td></tr></table>
<table style='padding:5px;'  cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'><tr><td><img alt="Perfect ending - the wine bar." src="http://oscartour.animationblogspot.com/files/2009/02/D3-konstain-taki-kunio-wine.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td id='image-subtitle' style='font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;' align='center'>Perfect ending - the wine bar.</td></tr></table><p>
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