Oscar Results

Last night was the 83rd Annual Academy Awards and the biggest night of the year in terms of films was on full force. As predicted Toy Story 3 was unable to capture the Best Picture award that instead went to The King's Speech and it also lost the Best Adapted Screenplay award to The Social Network, however it did capture 2 Oscars.

Pixar's latest beat out DreamWorks' fantastic How to Train Your Dragon and Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist to win Best Animated Feature and also Randy Newman with his second win (and 20th nomination) won Best Song for "We Belong Together".

Congrats to all involved.

The Simpsons Parodies Animation

In the latest episode of The Simpsons, Angry Dad: The Movie, in which Bart endeavours to turn his little animations about Homer from series 13 into an animated film. From there the episode turns into a veritable plethora of animated parodies.

The episode parodies Pixar (or as it is called here, Mixar, above) showing John Lasseter and co. turning up to the Golden Globes on the famous Pixar scooters, also parodying Randy Newman (below), who sings "You've got an enemy" to Bart. It also then parodies Luxo, Mr. Potato Head and WALL E (above). We also get a parody of a Pixar film, condiments, a film about what happens when food comes to life when people aren't around, I can't imagine where they got that idea from!

They also parody Aardman and Wallace and Gromit, with Willice and Crumble, there's even a special guest appearance by W&G creator Nick Park (above).

You can also see snippets of parodies of DreamWorks' Kung Fu Panda and Disney's The Lion King (top). As well as a parody of Sylvain Chomet and The Triplets of Belleville.

The episode is hilarious and is definitely one of the best episodes of The Simpsons in recent memory. The episode also contains little digs at celebrities i.e. Ricky Gervais' somewhat questionable hosting of The Golden Globes this year.

Hop vs. Rio

So, the animated film battle of the iPod game magnates has begun!

Seemingly in somewhat of a measure to take on Angry Birds and Rio, Illumination Entertainment and their upcoming CGI/Live-Action mash up, Hop, have struck back. In the most recent update for Doodle Jump for iPod Touch and iPhone, the beloved game introduced a new feature; if you change your name to Hop or E.B. (the film's main character) you can play as E.B. in the game.

This is a shrewd move by Illumination Entertainment by associating themselves with arguably one of the most recognisable iOS games out there. Not that the company behind Despicable Me needs any extra advertisement. Saying that, Hop is out on April 1st and Rio on the 15th, so there will be some competition.

You can see screenshots of how to unlock the mode and the actual mode itself above.

Also, I implore you to like our Facebook page (at the top right of the page), promoting Toy Story 3 to win Best Picture. The Oscars are tonight, so Toy Story 3 needs all the support it can get against heavy favourites such as The King's Speech and The Social Network.

New Rio Video

As April 15th gets closer, we're getting more and more hype and video packages for Blue Sky Studios' next feature film, Rio, we've already seen several trailers, a superbowl spot and had an announcement of Angry Birds Rio. As those of you who follow the blog regularly will know, Rio is one of the animated films that I'm most looking forward to this year and this new video (above) sheds a lot more light on the film. This newest trailer (of sorts) contains a lot of previously unseen footage, as well as showing more of the musical side that we have been led to believe will largely affect the film.

This newest video has me even more excited for the release of Blue Sky Studios' 6th feature film.

Stay tuned for more.

My First Uploaded Drawing - Rex

The above picture is my first ever uploaded A113Animation  drawing. The picture is of Rex of Toy Story fame, I drew the picture on the Brushes app for iPod touch. I'm personally quite pleased about it, but I'll welcome feedback.