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An Art Form Grows Up: The Transformation and Evolution of Animation Is Celebrated at Annecy
Annecy Animation Festival lineup includes work from Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, Paramount, Laika
Just look at this year’s animated feature Oscar winner, Latvia’s “Flow,” a moving dialog-free tale of a solitary cat’s journey as it learns to survive after a great flood, that was made with open-source software Blender for just $3.4 million. Dreamworks Animation chief Margie Cohn says it’s “imperative” to create stories that give audiences a reason to see a movie in a theater, and DWA is delivering two to three theatrical films per year, a mix of original and franchise titles. “Over the last couple of years, we’ve really focused on building out our social platforms, so we have an audience who’s aware of Laika as the creator of these five kinds of wonderful films [including ‘family horror’ titles ‘Coraline’ and ‘ParaNorman’], Burke says.
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