My yearly thoughts on the Annie Awards...
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Only real issue I have with these student films is finding ways to watch
them! There's so much creativity and skill in these films, would really like
to have a showcase where we can see all the nominees.
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Best Short Subject... Gah! Other than the Girl who Cried Pearls, I
haven't see any of these shorts. We need a shorts program that shows the
Annie Award student nominee and professional nominee films, much like Shorts
International does with the Academy Award nominated short films!
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Nice to see Aaron win the Annie for 'Snowbear'--and his Winsor McCay award
from last year. His online classes have been a great source of instruction
over the years.
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Well, at least we got though eleven minutes of the show without politics.
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Love, Death + Robots won Production Design in an Animated
Television/Media Production, congrats to Blur Studios and Gigi Cavenago.
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Production Design in an Animated Feature goes to Sony for
KPop Demon Hunters. Wonder how many they're going to win tonight?
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Y'know, I swear I've seen "Trek" somewhere before, but I can't place it.
Hrm. Off to
YouTube! Yup, I've seen this before. No idea where though... Ottawa maybe?
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Bobby Chiu! Glad to see him get an award. Have loved his Schoolism.com
workshops.
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Music in an Animated Feature goes to KPop Demon Hunters. Called it.
Though figured Zootopia 2 would give them a run for their money.
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Best Character Design TV/Media goes to Love, Death + Robots for
'400 Boys'. Awesome! Though this category was really tough to
predict. Some really top shelf designs there.
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Best Character Design for an Animated Feature. That was another tough one to
predict. Though once I saw KPop and Spongebob on the lineup, figured it be
either one of those two. Turns out I was right again. Think we're going to
see a sweep of the Annies with KPop Demon Hunters. Wonder if they'll
match Arcane's record of awards? Hrm Arcane was nominated for
nine, how many was KPop Demon Hunters nominated for? Ten?
- Heh. Good one Aubry! Wah-com. Now do GIF! ;)
- We love you Brock Sampson!
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Character Animation in a video game... wow! Just wow! The skill that is on
the screen. Not sure how the judges could pick the winner in this category.
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Character Animation in TV/Media, not gonna lie, was kinda hoping for Asterix
& Obelix...
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Best Character Animation - Feature: KPop Demon Hunters...? Yup.
Though this was another tough one to call: Zootopia, Bad Guys, Little
Amelie...
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I make a mental note to check out Spice Frontier and WONDLA...
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Best Animated Effects - Feature... KPop Demon Hunters. Going to have
to check out In Your Dreams though.
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Best Editorial - TV/Media... sorry, gotta give this to Invincible or
Splinter Cell.
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Best Editorial - Feature... we know it's going to be 'KPop', but wouldn't
mind seeing Little Amelie or Olivia & las Nubes win this one.
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Happy to see Michaël Dudok de Wit win the Winsor McCay Award, his film
The Monk and the Fish is the last film I show in my Animation History
class every year.
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Best Voice Acting - Animated Feature: KPop Demon Hunters. Closing in
on Arcane...
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Not going to lie here, I liked 'KPop', but I was really hoping that Mamoru
Hosoda would win the Writing in an Animated Feature Annie for
Scarlet.
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Awesome! Another win for Love, Death + Robots! Storyboarding in
an Animated TV/Media Production.
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Directing in an Animated Feature Production... was still rooting for Mamoru
Hosoda.
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Best Animated Independent Feature goes to Arco. Hrm. Might be worth a
look...
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And KPop Demon Hunters sweeps every category it was nominated in
ending up with a total of ten Annies.
Congratulations to all the nominees and winners, the accolades are well
deserved. And thank you for ASIFA Hollywood for bringing us the Annie Awards.
