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Whaddya say to the Academy’s picks for Best Animated Feature? We say there’s a lot of them this year, and that’s radical! This week you get to watch a fun little film, plus Carl gets your take on the animated Oscar noms. Cartoon Hangover features a festival flick from Sundance! Animation that is both Hangover worthy and Sundance worthy? You bet.

“The Clod” (”Hrouda”) by Jaromír Plachý: A giant becomes a big nuisance as it slowly approaches a tiny home.

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-Bailee DesRocher

Saturday, February 6th, animation’s highest honors were handed out at the 37th Annie Awards. This years contenders all had a fair shot at top honors, with Sony, Dreamworks, Pixar, and Disney all repped pretty evenly across the board in major categories. With so many excellent films this year, it’s safe to say that animation is the winner.

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The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco (655 Mission Street) has just announced that it will present an exhibition of original artwork from the feature film Coraline from January 24-February 15.

“The exhibition features drawings, storyboards, puppets, sets, costumes and more from this groundbreaking movie, the first ever stop-motion animated film to be shot in 3D…this exhibit includes almost 80 pieces from the extraordinary world of Coraline, created by a team of over 300 artists bringing to life the vision of the world’s foremost stop-motion animation director, Henry Selick.”

For more on Coraline, you can check out the official website. (The image above is from a cool collection of behind-the-scenes stills on that site.) The movie opens February 6th, so the CAM exhibit will make for a great sneak peek.

Here are few other interesting museum shows in SF this month (not about animation, just generally cool):

1000 Journals at SFMOMA

Harlem of the West at the [Read more…]

The stop motion fantasy feature Coraline will be released February 6, 2009. Directed by Henry Selick, based upon the Neil Gaiman book, produced by Laika (formerly Will Vinton Studios), this promises to be an oddball animation classic.

It’s got a super solid voice cast that includes Dakota Fanning, John Hodgman, and Jennifer Saunders. And music by They Might Be Giants.

How much talent can you stuff into one animated film?

Anyway, a slew of sneak peek material has recently been released to the net. I thought it would be a good idea to round up the links for you:

Coraline photo gallery from LA Times

Sneak peek videos from Rotten Tomatoes

Oregonian article.

Image Gallery from IGN

Video gallery from IGN

Shock Til You Drop set visit and Selick interview

Original sculpted models for the movie displayed at Comicon here.

And a fun flashback: Selick’s Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions (1990) for MTV:

—Anne D. Bernstein