A dazzling group of animators and animation styles are represented in this year?s Oscar shorts competition, although there is the usual dearth of stories featuring girls and women.
There is no dearth of troubling subject matter in the three-part ?Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012,? especially in the documentary category. The shorts ? divided into programs for documentary, live action and animation ? open on Friday in more than 200 theaters in the United States and Canada.
At the pace of 30 videos a day, Next Media Animation is churning out ?All the news that?s fit to animate.? The Taiwanese media company is (in)famous for hilarious and hilariously inappropriate news videos reenacting Tiger Woods? car crash and TSA?s new full body scanners . It?s the day after the Super Bowl and their video featuring Eli Manning, God, and a ?geriatric Lady Gaga Impersonator? (aka ...