2011 CalArts Producers' Show | Photo: Christine N. Ziemba
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Last Thursday (May 12), animation and film industry professionals got a glimpse of work by up-and-coming artists at the 2011 CalArts Character Animation Producers’ Show. Held at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in North Hollywood, the event screened 22 films by CalArts BFA students.
Pixar’s Pete Docter (Film/Video BFA 90), who won an Academy Award last year for Up, made a special guest appearance at the Producers’ Show to present two awards: the faculty-scored Walter and Gracie Lantz Animation Prize (aka “The Woody Award”) to Nelson Boles for little boat and the Peers’ Pick award to Tom Law for Marooned 3.
Docter took the moment to reminisce about his time at CalArts as a student sitting in the same Producers’ Show audience. He jokingly advised the student animators to enjoy their last moments of total creative control.
We’ve posted the opening titles to the 2011 Producers’ Show and linked to the films (when available):
- little boat by Nelson Boles (BFA 3) — Walter and Gracie Lantz Animation Prize
- Marooned 3 by Tom Law (BFA 2) — Peers’ Pick
- Paraphernalia by Sabrina Cotugno (BFA 3)
- Sharkdog by Eric Anderson (BFA 4)
- My Grandfather’s Ship by Trevor Jones (BFA 4)
- Shell Out by Sunmee Dong (BFA 3)
- Origin by Jessica Poon (BFA 2)
- SHAPE by Eusong Lee (BFA 2)
- The Trackpad Jam by Jeff Liu (BFA 4)
- Brave by Jasmin Lai (BFA 2)
- Berdoo by Miranda Tacchia (BFA 3)
- GrandMugged by Jacob Streilein (BFA 1)
- We’ll be fine, probably by Sam Kremers-Nedell (BFA 3)
- Hummingbirds and Holograms by Jeff Liu (BFA 4)
- Vampire Gastelbrau by Hannah Ayoubi (BFA 2)
- GIVE ME SPACE by Brian Carter (BFA 3)
- Bottom Feeder Blues by Colin Howard (BFA 1)
- Blueberry by Glenn Williamson (BFA 4)
- The Funny Thing About Lois by Amelia Lorenz (BFA 3)
- Lemur by Takehiro Nishikawa (BFA 1)
- 500 Days of Winter by Natalie Wetzig (BFA 3)
- Eyrie by David Wolter (BFA 2)