Monday, December 01, 2008

I've been nominated for an Annie Award!


Well I be darned, I'm up for an Annie Award for Character Animation in a Feature Production! This is a pretty big deal considering all the other great work that was done on WALL-E by my coworkers, and considering the amazing animators I'm up against from Dreamworks and BlueSky. Here's the full list of nominees:

Character Animation in a Feature Production

  • James Baxter “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
  • Jeff Gabor “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who” – Blue Sky Studios
  • Philippe Le Brun “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
  • Victor Navone “Wall•E” – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Dan Wagner “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
You can see all the other categories and nominees here. Win or lose, it's a real honor to be nominated blah blah blah I hope I win! We'll have to wait until January 30th to find out. Until then, sing along: "Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya, tomorrow..."

25 comments:

  1. Congrats on the nomination Victor. You deserve the it. It must feel great to get such high recognition for your work. Next step is to win and then on to your Oscar.. :)

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  2. HUGE Kongratz Victor!!!

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  3. Congrats, Mr Navone

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  4. Congratulations on the nomination!

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  5. Awesome man, big congratulations on the nomination. I'll be rooting for you to get the win!

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  6. Congratulations, Victor! and give my congrats to everybody else at Pixar.

    P.S. Thanks again for letting me post the pics...

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  7. Wow!!! :)

    Man, congratulations!!! That's really awesome, and a big recognition to your hard and flawless work.

    And to be on the same list as James Baxter is a prize in itself, huh? ;)

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  8. imagine a hippo about to eat a monkey. That's how awesome I imagine this is for you. Cgratz man

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  9. Gianormously huge congratulations Victor!
    "... when I'm stuck with a day that's gray and lonely, I just lift up my chin and grin and saaaayy.... tomorrow tomorrow ...." :)

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  10. Congrats and best of luck!

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  11. Congratulations! :)

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  12. Congratulations Victor! Well deserved!

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  13. awesome awesome...congrats Victor...regardless of who wins, getting nominated among the best of the best is a huge achievement in itself !!!!

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  14. That is some great competition but I hope you win Victor, In my opinion you earned it.

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  15. Congrats Victor!!!!!!! I just bought the dvd of Wall-e and was going through all the scenes you had animated frame-by-frame... wondering in awe and then I saw THIS!!!!!!!!! I hope you really win man!!

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  16. congratulations Victor,
    you deserve it all.

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  17. Victor-- That's outstanding-- congratulations!

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  18. Big huge GRATS dude...you totally deserve it! But the "Annie, Tommorow" reference?? I mean, seriously?? :)

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  19. congrats victor. so well deserved. i'll be looking for the video of your victory speech.
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  20. Congrats Victor-well deserved.

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  21. hey Victor, My name is nathan
    and i'm astudent (class 6) in animation mentor...

    u'r lectures are amazing!!
    learned alot from them...

    (especially u'r walkthrough with the priest in class 5)

    anyway, was just wondering.. did u get the award???

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  22. Hi Nathan, thanks for the nice note! I didn't win the Annie, but I did win the VES Award.

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