June 14, 2011

Annecy 2011

Hello!

I've been off to Annecy for the annual animation film festival! It was so GREAT!!

Here are some pics of the town, really cute!





I saw a lot of movies, short, long, study, in or out competition, it was fantastic, I never ate so many movies in so few time! It was really cool, I met some very interesting people, and I learned a lot of things attempting to some speaches, so I really appreciated it! The only bad thing is that I caught a cold, so I couldn't be at my best brain capacities all the time!

Here are some movies I really appreciated (no particular order) :

You can click on each names of the movie to access to the description.

Long movies :

JIB 











BATEELAER SAGA 










DEN KAEMPESTORE BJORN












Short movies :

Fluffy Mc Cloud

Oh Happy Day 


Die Kiste


La nuit de l'ours


M'échapper de son regard

Sudd

Birdboy


Don't tell Santa you're Jewish!

Graffitiger

Pixels

Something left, something taken

La Détente

Xing


Viagem a Cabo Verde

A morning Stroll

Chroniques de la poisse


I have also attended to a projection of Vinton's short movies, it was really interesting! There were few stop motion movies, that himself has picked as the best/more interesting of his work, and I must admitt that now that I've seen those movies, I want to see more movies from Vinton!^^

But, to me, the BEST PROJECTION EVER was the Disney's Laugh-O-Grams projection! Why? Because in the first part, there were (in world premiere) the restoration of some mute early Disney movies, and the president of the festival was live playing piano as it was at the projection in that time! It was so gorgeous!!
Sorry for the bad quality, that's the only "acceptable" picture I could take with my cell phone. The little (little little) light on the left is the President of the festival playing piano.



And to finish, I attended to some speaches from the Walt Disney Animation Studio team, I learned a lot of things and I could Speack to Dawn Rivera-Ernster (sorry I couldn't get a picture of her ) and Clay Kaytis that has helped me figure out one or two important points about important stuffs^^

From left to right :
Mike Giaimo, Art Director / Paul Briggs, Storyboard Supervisor / Clay Kaytis & John Karhs, Animation Supervisors.

And finally (really finally) I had the chance to chat a little little bit with Bill Plympton, and he dedicated me a kind of newspaper or something!

3 comments:

  1. Oh noooooooooo !
    Tu es passé dans mon fief et on s'est loupé !
    Si tu repasses dans le coin l'année prochaine fait moi signe je peux vous renseigné toi et tes proches sur tous les bons plans/coins de la ville et du festival.

    En tout cas je suis content de voir que t'as aimé Annecy, malgré la pluie.

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  2. haaa oui c'était super!! j'ai pensé a toi mais je t'ai pas vu alors bon, jme suis dit, une autre fois! le festival était terrible (meme si je suis étonnée par le résultat des prix parfois, ils abusent)

    ah la pluie! .... mes baskets ont pris l'eau, et moi jai pris froid! (mais genre vraiment, la fièvre, tourner au fervex et tout) !

    t'as trouvé du taff sinon? t'as pas bougé d'annecy?

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  3. Le baskets qui prennent l'eau... un grand classique du festival ça. ^^
    L'an prochain avant de venir contact moi via mail/facebook/mon blog/pigeon voyageur.
    Je te donnerai les petits plus.
    Les films récompensé c'est toujours un peu bizarre chaque année. :s

    Alors en ce qui concerne le taf après avoir connu une période faste (avec un taf, une copine et un jet privé), je viens de traverser une période NOIRE (plus de taf, plus de copine, plus de jet.....)
    Mais là tout doucement je remonte la pente.
    Je me suis entièrement consacré à ma vie de freelance (donc toujours pas de taf) et je commence à me faire des contacts sérieux.
    Je suis donc revenu sur Annecy me ressourcer, oui. ^^

    Et toi comment ça se passe pour toi ?
    Tu fais quoi en ce moment ?

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