Congrats congrats to Cartoon Saloon's Tomm Moore and Paul Young, and to all the Cartoon Saloon crew for their 2015 Oscar nomination in the Animated Feature category for 'Song Of The Sea'.
A word of commiseration too to Alan Holly for missing out the Oscar (Short Film, Animated) shortlist with his wonderful 'Coda'.
Fingers crossed for the Oscars on Sunday 22nd of February! And we can't wait to see 'Song' soon on the big screens here! Go Tomm, Paul and The Saloon! Bring back that little golden man...
Bob Godfrey dead at 91… In IADT, we were privileged to have
had Bob as our DL041 Animation External Examiner for three or four years. He was a
generous, perceptive, knowledgeable man, with a huge interest in our students.
He was also a great great laugh! We spent many an evening in his hotel bar,
listening to his stories of war, advertising and animation (probably in that
order). Thelma posted this image of Tweedy, Bob, Thelma und ich on Facebook. I can’t
remember what year it was taken. 2003? Me mind’s a blur…
As the Guardian obituary below says about Bob...
'His unfulfilled ambition was to make a feature film – it nearly came true with a project called Jumbo – but he was at least partly satisfied with Great, a half-hour cartoon on the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, voiced by Briers'.
Strangely enough, Richard Briers also died last week...
Bob! A great man! Condolences to Beryl, Claire, Tessa and Bob's
grandkids. We will all miss Bob.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/feb/22/bob-godfrey1
