Annecy 2012 again

Hi guyz! Just a little review i did in the train back to Paris... (of course it's just a joke, don't take it like it's the real thing!)

Annecy festival of animated film 2012

Hi folks! If you follow my blog for long enough, you'd know that last year I went at Annecy festival of animated film. Well, I did it again! It was absolutely gorgeous! I saw a lot of movies, some I loved, some I appreciated, and of course, some I didn't, but that's okay. It's a very various selection so there is enough to please everyone's tastes. This year I saw John Karhs of course, Dawn Rivera-Ernstern, Gennie Rim, Patrick Osborne, and a lot of other animation-stars! And some local frenchie celebrities like Alain Chabat! I met wonderful people, and even some potential recruiters so, I hope to find a job! And I even got a t shirt of brave ♥

Here is a list of the movies/programs I saw and if you click on the pictures you will get the description (in french and english). There is the Paperman from Disney that I didn't saw (yet, i'm going tomorrow), it was only on invitation, i'm not vip enough (yet) ;p I saw all the other movies on the scans of the programs!

Cal arts : a 40-years evolution
spike and mike's twisted festival of animation
tangled ever after
short films 1
 short films 2
 the suicide shop
tad the lost explorer
children who chase lost voices from deep below
Ronal the barbarian
selkirk, el verdadero robinson crusoe
leafie, a hen into the wild
 tv films 1
 tv films 3
 tv films 4
 

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!