But first things first, a summary of day 5:
Got up, went to the last Animators's breakfast at the Arts Court and stayed for the first of two panels of 'Meet the Filmmakers'. I gotta say, this panel felt like it was a last minute adjustment due to the lack of the usual moderators, because that guy had a really hard time to organize both his commentaries and making the panel engaging.
Then I rushed to the shuttle for Museum of Civilization to attend the Making of 'La Luna' panel. Seeing Enrico talk about his process and how his team managed to pull of his self-labeled 'Little water-plane' off the ground was great. I was particularly engaged by the textural work they did in the backdrops and the props since it was all done traditionally and then incorporated as both texture and normal maps, giving it that extra natural/traditional quality to the already vibrant palette.
After that I hit the road again to catch the School Competition: RISD vs Tokyo University of the Arts. I'm quite sorry for my RISD friends but the Tokyo selection kicked their school's ass brutally. I mean most of the RISD pieces were nicely crafted and somehow engaging, yet the timing, the craft and (well, not so much the content) but you could say the passing of TokyoU's films was amazing. Particularly the stop-motion ones, they were quite well crafted. I was also impressed by Yasashii march by Wataru Uekusa. The character design and animation quality, was GAINAX quality. Then again, apparently TokyoU is a post-grad university, so their top-notch-ness compared to RISD is understandable...
Then it was Chico & Rita. Great textures, loved the painterly CG, hated the ending. Here, I leave a link to the trailer:
After that I decided to finally chill for the next 2 hours 'til the Closing Ceremony (since I had already seen the next screening). So I went around parliament and downtown just taking some pics and strolling.
Closing Ceremony was unexpectedly long, the masters of ceremonies drifted a lot off topic and we ended up the whole thing an hour later than expected. After that we rushed to the Arts Court since we were not interested in watching The Best of OIAF (since we'll be watching it at ECU anyway) and walked down the bridge to downtown (last bus had already left)
Kristen stayed home and I went to the closing Party (which was unexpectedly a smattering more than a party) I said farewell to all my RISD new friends in hopes to find each other either at OIAF 2012 or along the animation road.
And so this concludes my brief and weird chronicles of the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2011, I left feeling like I had spent there an entire semester (which in terms of knowledge and people I met is quite equivalent I guess) It was one of the greatest experiences I've had as an animator so far and can't wait to repeat it, even if it is not next year, in the near future. It just reminded me of the so varied and great things I love about this medium and taught me to love it even more.
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