I wish a "Best Picture" Oscar for Toy Story 3...

Again, in a week or so, the Oscars are upon us, the 'Academy Awards',
this year, the Academy decided that Toy Story 3 can and WILL be
nominated not only for the 'Best Animated Feature' Award but for the
'Best Picture' Award as well, making the Pixar phenomenal competing
head to head against Darren Aronovsky's Black Swan, The King's Speech
and others.


First, Congratz to Pixar, Toy Story 3 is so Moving and Touching
Emotionally that even the Academy couldn't ignore their Achievement,
as far as I know, Animated Features usually just get the 'Best Animated
Feature' Award and that's it, the only Animated Feature that I remember
being nominated for the 'Best Picture' Award was Disney's Lion King, but
that was over 15 years ago and didn't end well for the animation world,
but still, it was also a very touching and emotional film.


I think the academy has a problem with judging animation, for some reason,
the academy thinks a person is a genius if he can act well but if he can just
draw a scene with a character acting really well, than he's less of a genius,
again, for some reason.


I've seen Toy Story 3 AND Black Swan AND The King's Speech and I
can say for certain that Toy Story 3 was the only one that left me almost
in tears, the other ones weren't even close.


I have no faith in the academy and I'm still mad at them for not letting
the Oscar to The Lion King but I was a good year and Forrest Gump
(one of my favorite movies) got that Oscar, Than they REFUSED to even
give a nominee to Andy Serkis for portraying Gollum in The Two Towers
(the Lord of the Rings Series by Peter Jackson) in 2002 because they
said he wasn't acting, he was ANIMATED... as if that's NOT acting !


Bottom line is that I don't think the academy is close to get animation but
if anyone can make them get it is Pixar, so I hope it's again one of those
times that we'll all say, I can't be done, but Pixar did it.


btw,
if it wasn't for Toy Story 3, I would say the best film this year was The King's Speech,
I enjoyed it greatly...

Powerful Image...

It's sad that they can get Western Television

in places where they can't even get Food...

anyway, I thought it's a very powerful image

Done by Nadia Plesner (http://www.nadiaplesner.com)

in order to get more people involved in Africa,

The Image I wanted to show:

Comic Strip as a cure for Spare Time...

Before I send my strip into the virtual world
let me start by saying I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I don't have the time anymore
for this Blog as I used to, but it's been
crazy getting back to school (Animation Studies)
I thought my Final Year is gonna be different,
more Relaxed, but no, so I have very little
time lately.

After I said THAT, I do have a little spare time
between my classes and usually I have nothing
to do in that "Spare Time" so I thought I'd practice
my art by making a short Comic Strip,
I hope you'll enjoy it:

Lex Luther & Joker Comics...

A little something I found in "io9" today,
I really liked it, it's so true to the characters,
and I say that as an old comic-book fan
who used to collect comics for fun
when I was a teenager.
Lex Luther and the Joker were kind of my favorite
DC Comics characters, both great villains in their
own way and both more interesting than their
so-called "Heroes" (Superman & Batman),
well, the comics:

My Own Student Film on Youtube

I finally did it, today I uploaded my Third Year Student Film
to YouTube, a process that takes Hours, by the way,
well, here it is, "Goose Liver":



I already uploaded my sculpture reference to my Deviant Art page,
there been a few design changes brought up by my Most Talented
Design Teacher: Michael Faust, well, here's the sculpture reference:

Funny Picture by a Friend

picture was taken by a friend of mine, Itamar Keren
I really liked the picture and the pose, done with
a real-size Kermit doll that he has, for some reason.
Just a funny picture.