{"id":944,"date":"2013-02-08T11:16:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T11:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/?p=944"},"modified":"2013-02-08T23:24:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T23:24:39","slug":"laika-at-ves-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/?p=944","title":{"rendered":"LAIKA at VES Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fxguide.com\/quicktakes\/visual-effects-society-winners-of-11th-annual-ves-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\">results are in<\/a> &#8211; and even though we didn&#8217;t take home the gold, the team at LAIKA had a big presence at this year&#8217;s VES awards in LA.\u00a0 ParaNorman was nominated in several categories:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nChris Butler<br \/>\nSam Fell<br \/>\nTravis Knight<br \/>\nBrad Schiff<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture<\/strong><\/span><em><br \/>\nGraveyard<\/em><br \/>\nPhil Brotherton<br \/>\nRobert Desue<br \/>\nOliver Jones<br \/>\nNick Mariana<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Street<\/em><br \/>\nAlice Bird<br \/>\nMatt Delue<br \/>\nCaitlin Pashalek<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture<\/strong><\/span><em><br \/>\nPractical Volumetrics<\/em><br \/>\nAidan Fraser<br \/>\nJoe Gorski<br \/>\nEric Kuehne<br \/>\nAndrew Nawrot<\/p>\n<p><em>Angry Aggie Ink-Blot Electricity<\/em><br \/>\nMichael Cordova<br \/>\nGrant Laker<br \/>\nSusanna Luck<br \/>\nPeter Vickery<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ah, you&#8217;ll get &#8217;em next time.\u00a0 And apparently the next chance will come on a 2014 feature announced today, entitled <strong><em>The Boxtrolls<\/em><\/strong>, reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/portland\/news\/2013\/02\/07\/laikas-next-film-the-boxtrolls.html?ana=twt\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Business Journal<\/a> and others who picked up the wire.\u00a0 This is based on Alan Snow&#8217;s book <em>Here Be Monsters<\/em>.\u00a0 Due October 17, 2014 &#8211; and to that can I just say <strong>THANK GOD THEY ARE FINALLY BRINGING OUT A LAIKA MOVIE FOR HALLOWEEN<\/strong>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about time.\u00a0 Own it, guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results are in &#8211; and even though we didn&#8217;t take home the gold, the team at LAIKA had a big presence at this year&#8217;s VES awards in LA.\u00a0 ParaNorman was nominated in several categories: Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture Chris Butler Sam Fell Travis Knight Brad Schiff Outstanding Created Environment in&hellip; <a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/?p=944\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-laika"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Cfrz-fe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}