Saw that a few days ago at Cartoon Brew, but only today I managed to finish watching all videos.

The event was a tribute to the master Milt Kahl and was held last April, but now we can delight ourselves with some cool video excerpts of that talk. If you like to listen to guys like Brad Bird or Richard Williams, I believe you'd have to go to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences page now.

:)

It's nice to watch or even to remember how cool that event was, if you happen to be one of those lucky people who attended that tribute and now is reading my humble blog. ;D

Yesterday was the last day of Annecy 2009. One day I'll be there. It must be really awesome. :)

As usual, Gobelins students make some (amazing) short openings for the International Animation Film Festival, and they are already online:

• Monstera Deliciosa:
  
• Le lac gelê:
  
• Fenrir:
  
• Dodudindon:
  
• Jelly Sunday:
  
  The YouTube video has some compression problems, but it can also be downloaded here.

To read more about those films, visit this page. It will also hold the new shorts produced this year.

...have you seen the screen capture made by Pablo Vazquez to show how magnificent interface Blender 2.5 is getting? IMHO, it exceeds the highest expectations:

... the birthday of the best animator ever!

I'll give you some chances to guess who he is:

Milt Kahl? No.

Bill Tytla? Hummmmm... nope.

Ward Kimball? Nein...¬¬

Ken Harris? It's cold...

Virgil Ross? No, but the name is somehow close...

Glen Keane? Not even close.

OK... let's try some changes in the sentence to make the guessing easier:

Today the entire world a few people celebrate the birthday of the best a random animator ever.

Now I think it's easier to guess, huh?

Virgílio Vasconcelos? Yeahh!!! Right on spot!! In the first try! You're good at guessing the name of famous random animators, huh? :D

Here's another work inspired by Project Durian. The first one I made you may remember:

The applications are only until jun, 10th! =)