How'd They Do That?

A couple of neat things today. First off, big congrats to David Riedel of Germany who won this years Machinima category at the fmx/06 film festival. His film, done in 'The Movies' is Am Ende der Distanz (At The End of Distance). Both a compelling and distrubing account of a relationship that is set heavily in a psychological style of filmming and storytelling.

I also enjoyed a three part podcast featuring an interview with Andrew Staton, an Oscar winning writer and director over at Pixar. The questions can not be heard and the audio is way low but Staton's responses are very informative to the inside workings of animated filmmaking at Pixar.
stanton_interview_part1.m4a (5MB)
AndrewStanton_part2.m4a (11MB)
AndrewStanton_part3.m4a (8.5MB)

If your more the visual type then I have have some Pixar lovin' for you too. Ralph Eggleston, an Oscar winning Production Designer at Pixar has a great set of video interviews up at RedStudio's 'behind the scenes'. The UI for navigation is a little funky but each section is really good.

Finally if your into the above media (which as a 3D filmmaker I found really good) then you can also listen to a podcast with Ralph Eggleston here too (23MB).