Thursday, February 23, 2012

Handicapping the Short Subjects

Time reviews the animated candidates for The Little Gold Man.

... This category is a remnant of the 1930s and ’40s, when “an evening at the movies” meant just that: a three-hour-plus banquet of two features, a newsreel and a few cartoons that were often the best things on the program. Except for Pixar, which grooms its prospective feature-film directors by letting them start small, Hollywood studios don’t support cartoon-shorts departments any more. ...

Henry Luce's magazine has a little of the above wrong. Walt Disney Animation Studios also grooms directors by doing shorts. And Warner Bros. Animation has produced a string of new theatrical shorts over the past couple of years.

So at least two of the majors are still in the short subject game.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

DW also puts untried directors on shorts

Anonymous said...

DW puts untried directors on features.

Anonymous said...

My money is on Moonbot's short - its charming.

Anonymous said...

If by charming you mean boring and too long. And the animation is pretty bad in places.

I think La Luna will get it.

Anonymous said...

Why wasn't Notes on Biology nominated? My favorite of the Annie nominated shorts.

Chris Sobieniak said...

At least there's a working model at use here.

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