Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Should Oscar honor animation effects?

For many, the idea of honoring visual effects in animated films elicits a simple reaction: "Huh?"

Which is short for: How can you separate out "visual effects" in movies entirely created by artists?

Some in the visual effects industry insist there's an argument to be made for honoring effects in animated films. This Oscar season, Sony Imageworks is making that argument especially loudly, and it's not alone.

"If I had to draw the line," says Zareh Nalbandian, CEO and co-founder of Animal Logic, "anything that is part of the character performance is really on the animation side of the fence, where anything that is outside the character performance, the things we'd see in a live-action visual effects movie, should be eligible for visual effects consideration."

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