o/t: Animation Oscars, Shrek's animation techniques

[robert]

How To Qualify For An Animation Oscar

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled the criteria it has set in place for the award of a new category, Best Animated Feature, which is likely to be presented for the first time next year. Under the rules, at least eight eligible animated films must be produced during the year. Each must be at least 70 minutes long, feature a significant number of animated characters, and animated scenes must account for at least 75 percent of the running time. The academy said that the Oscar in the new category will be presented only to "the key creative talent most clearly responsible for the overall achievement" and that no more than two Oscars will be presented in the category.


Shrek Animation Techniques To Be Used On New Movie

Andrew Adamson, the director of Shrek, says he plans to take the animated techniques used in the movie even further when he directs an animated version of writer Terry Pratchett's Bromeliad Trilogy. He told the BBC's website that he intends to make the characters in the books (Truckers, Diggers and Wings) "as physical and real in the world as we are. ... What I hope for is that every time people walking out of the theater see something out of the corner of their eye -- they will think it is one of the characters from the movie." Adamson also praised Pratchett, whose novels are outsold in the U.K. only by Harry Potter writer J.K. Rowling's. "Terry's an amazing writer and has an incredible way of taking things that we know and see on a daily basis and turning them around and showing them to us in a different way."

[Nftnat]

Okkay. Now, what are the criteria for being nominated for animated short. They don't show cartoons in movie theaters anymore, do they? The pilot for Courage was nominated, & afaik it's never been seen outside of CN.

[Sharklady]

I consider this good news. Animated movies almost never get nominated for Best Picture, which I suspect is due to Hollywood's not taking them seriously. It's certainly not because none of them are good enough.

This new category with hopefully give the genre some much-deserved recognition- it's just too bad they took so long to add it. Think how many of our favorite movies could've been contenders!