Back at the hotel after a so far very nice day in Annecy! We just saw short films in competition block nr 4 and it was really great! Go go Finland!

During the day we have seen the latest short from Pixar “Partly Cloudy” and listened to the director Peter Sohn who gave us some background information about the project. It was a blast! Before that we attended the special FX conference and listened to speakers from Double negative, MPC, BUF and Mikros images. Very interesting and inspiering.

At 18.00 we got to experience “3D 3D” at monsters VS aliens. It was cool and all but it felt like you got a beating over the nose from the glasses. It was worth it though!

Fast recap on day one, two and three:

Attended seminars about stereoscopic cinema and listened to the pioneers in that field discussing the pros and cons. Interesting of course and we are going to test it out our selves on our upcoming short “TV Guy”

We went on the seminar “Animated features case studies” and listened to everything from budgets to production pipelines. Also very educational and interesting. 

The night is still young and we are about to hit the pub for a beer (ten?). Got to love animation festivals!

We went to pickup our badges and catalogs at the festival centre.

Then the fridge in the hotel room got an facelift.

Reminds me off this.

We have just arrived to Annecy Animation Festival for the third time.
This year we have the pleasure to enjoy the festival togheter with our friend Robban.