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From: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tin Toy
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Date: 4 Apr 89 16:46:34 GMT
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Reply-To: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
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In article <11217@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	Pixar won the Oscar for best animated short subject.  The film was
>_Tin Toy_. 
>	I don't know about anyone else, but I'm pretty happy about this.

I'm VERY happy about this!  This is a breakthrough for all of us involved
in computer animation, especially the story telling end of it.  Tin Toy
won, not because of the fact that a computer made the images, but because
of its story and characters.  If you're going to tell stories with 
computer animation, you have to understand traditional animation techniques.
John Lassiter obviously does, that's why he won.  Now that the acadamy
recognized computer animation as just another animation medium, rather
than medium for engineers and physicists, we can look forward to seeing
more computer animated film be accepted by the public at large.  I think
this Oscar has opened a door for a bunch of us budding computer animators.
Now lets show them that you don't need a PIXAR machine to do fantastic
character animation (with REAL stories)!

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