The Oscar for best animated short film may not generate nearly as much attention as other categories, but it strikes an exciting contrast with the more traditional forms of storytelling found throughout other categories.
These films usually celebrate animators from around the world — including a number of up-and-comers — who apply a range of visual techniques and sophisticated concepts only possible in the animated medium. This year is entirely North American, but still features a lot of different approaches — and yet, ironically, the frontrunner in the category is a very familiar name: Pixar.
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Fortunately, the company’s latest short deserves the hype. Of course, just landing a nomination helps bring additional attention to these titles, and anyone seeking them out will discover an exciting range of experiences. While this isn’t the strongest list of nominees in recent years,...
These films usually celebrate animators from around the world — including a number of up-and-comers — who apply a range of visual techniques and sophisticated concepts only possible in the animated medium. This year is entirely North American, but still features a lot of different approaches — and yet, ironically, the frontrunner in the category is a very familiar name: Pixar.
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Fortunately, the company’s latest short deserves the hype. Of course, just landing a nomination helps bring additional attention to these titles, and anyone seeking them out will discover an exciting range of experiences. While this isn’t the strongest list of nominees in recent years,...
- 2/9/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Patrick Osborne definitely likes making animated home movie-like experiences as snapshots in time. The Oscar-winning Disney short, “Feast” (2015), offered a series of eating vignettes in a dog’s life. Now he’s competing again with the 2D version of his Google Spotlight Stories Vr short, “Pearl,” a musical journey between a father and daughter inside their ’83 Chevy Citation.
Made at Evil Eye Pictures and Google Atap, “Pearl” also boasts the original song, “No Wrong Way Home,” written by Alexis Harte & Jj Wiesler and performed by Kelley Stoltz and Nicki Bluhm.
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“The thing that’s happening now in Vr and Google Spotlight Stories is that the camera’s in the middle of a space and you can look in any direction,” Osborne told IndieWire. “How is that going to limit...
Made at Evil Eye Pictures and Google Atap, “Pearl” also boasts the original song, “No Wrong Way Home,” written by Alexis Harte & Jj Wiesler and performed by Kelley Stoltz and Nicki Bluhm.
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“The thing that’s happening now in Vr and Google Spotlight Stories is that the camera’s in the middle of a space and you can look in any direction,” Osborne told IndieWire. “How is that going to limit...
- 1/10/2017
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
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