Oscar to Ratatouille!

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature film to Ratatouille. Huge congratulations to everybody at Pixar that worked on it.

Marcelino and Bartolomeo: Bye Bye!

My wife and I met Mario Pochat and his wife last year in San Diego. In fact we graduated together in the second graduation class ever at Animation Mentor :)

I was really happy to see his awesome short film featured on the front page of YouTube. This film is an incredible piece of animation!

Watch "Marcelino and Bartolomeo: Bye Bye!" on YouTube.

Go Mario!

Art Babbitt

Awesome documentary on one of the true pioneers in animation. Enjoy!

Art Babbitt Documentary:
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4

Beautiful New Zealand

Here's some photos from my new home in Snells Beach, New Zealand taken by my friend and co-worker Florent













This is pretty much what we see walking to work every day. Kinda cool ah?

Inspirational stuff

Don Hahn shows pencil tests and talks about Beauty and the Beast:


Glen Keane animates a scene Part 1:


Part 2:


Part 3:


Glen Keane talks about Tarzan:


Recording session 'A Whole New World'


Alan Menken Part 1


Alan Menken Part 2

To Infinity and Beyond - The Pixar Story

The book "To Infinity and Beyond - The Story of Pixar Animation Studios" popped into my mailbox a couple of days ago and I'm already hooked. It's an amazing peek into how it all started back in the 70's and became what's todays Pixar. Absolutely recommended.

Can't wait for Leslie Iwerks documentary to come out on DVD :)