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Tomm Moore Talks 'Secret of the Kells'

It’s a neat trick for a small Irish studio to snag an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature and go head to head with Pixar, Disney, Henry Selick and Wes Anderson, not to mention beat out Hayao Miyazaki for a slot. It’s even more impressive when it’s the first time you’ve directed anything longer than a few commercials or TV segments. But that’s what Tomm Moore has done with Secret of the Kells - and on a budget that’s probably less than what any of the other films spent promoting themselves.

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Backstage at the Oscars

Pete Docter positively beamed about winning his Best Animated Feature Oscar for UP, and discussed the advantage of animation over live-action, the significance of AVATAR and what 3-D offers...

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Yet more notes on the Academy Awards

I just wish the Oscar's were not so important financially to the winners and runner-ups. I think the awards would mean just as much to the actors and production staff without knowing that millions of dollars could be riding on the votes of their fellow Academy members. I know you can't go back but one can wish...

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Thanks Dr. Catmull

At The Eighth Annual VES Awards Show Dr. Ed Catmull was rightly presented with the George Melies Award for Pioneering. His contributions to computer motion graphics and the entertainment industry as we know it today are myriad and foundational. Dr.Catmull gave a thoughtful, moving and understated speech while accepting the award. At the end of his speech he softly expressed that the best part of the journey had been the people that he had gotten to know. This brought to my mind two very special people that have since moved on.

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Animal Logic Takes Home VES Award

Animal Logic digital artists were recognised and awarded at the 8th Annual Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards last night for Outstanding Matte Painting in a Broadcast Program or Commercial on the Kaiser Permanente television commercial.

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NVIDIA GPUs Power All 2010 Best Visual Effects Academy Award Nominees

Each of the films nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects in this year's competition depended on NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics to power their stunning special effects.

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2010 Streamy Awards Nominees Announced

Nominations for the 2nd Annual Streamy Awards were announced in a live online broadcast today by the International Academy of Web Television, an independent organization of digital entertainment leaders created to recognize excellence in original episodic Web television programming.

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Avatar Wins Big at VES Awards

The Visual Effects Society announced the winners of the 8th Annual VES Awards tonight at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

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Cartoon Movie 2010 Tributes Noms Announced

Directors and companies from France, Belgium, Sweden, Spain and Poland have been nominated as finalists for Cartoon Movie 2010 Tributes, the awards for outstanding contribution to the development of European animation over the last year.

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Kodak Partners up for 82nd Academy Awards

By Matt Kapko | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 9:47am

Kodak and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced an expansion of their long-standing relationship as Kodak becomes the sponsor of several events surrounding the 82nd Academy Awards.

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Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Announces Awards for 2010 Festival

By Matt Kapko | Monday, February 22, 2010 at 6:45am

The judges of the seventh annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival have selected this years award winning films in the four competitive categories: Best Feature, Big Sky Award, Best Short Film and Best Mini Doc (under 15 minutes).

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Crunchyroll Honors Makoto Shinkai

Shinkai simply reminds us of how anime’s kanji-inscribed vision miraculously penetrates the eyes and ears of the gaijin, as if some midnight doctor from the X-Files had sewn a translator chip into our cerebral flesh. We just know we get it. We know we love it.

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Aniboom Parnters with Sesame Streets on Awards

By Matt Kapko | Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 8:07am

Aniboom, the world’s first virtual animation studio, today announced a collaboration with Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, one of the world's most beloved children’s brands, for the Fourth Annual Aniboom Animation Awards.

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