After Cars (2006) lost out on the Oscar for Best Animated Movie to Happy Feet (2006), which utilized motion capture, Pixar placed a "Quality Assurance Guarantee" at the end of their next movie Ratatouille (2007) to remind the Academy they animate every single frame of their movies manually

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image showing After Cars (2006) lost out on the Oscar for Best Animated Movie to Happy Feet (2006), which utilized motion capture, Pixar placed a "Quality Assurance Guarantee" at the end of their next movie Ratatouille (2007) to remind the Academy they animate every single frame of their movies manually

The_Movie_Fanatic on July 13rd, 2020 at 04:55 UTC »

I'd argue Cars lost on reasons other than its lack of motion capture...

...on an unrelated note, Ratatouille is one of their best looking films, and the fact that the fluid animation is all manually done is amazing.

Wompguinea on July 13rd, 2020 at 04:57 UTC »

They tried motion capture, but for some reason Owen Wilson wasn't keen about having go-kart wheels strapped to his limbs and being wheeled around an auditorium shouting "Ka-Chow!"

Edit: This comment put me over 100k karma and I'm disappointed in all of us.

RPDRNick on July 13rd, 2020 at 05:17 UTC »

Also, the third movie nominated that year was Monster House, another mo-cap movie.

(Snubbed 2006 animated films: Paprika, Flushed Away and Over the Hedge, as well as the experimental, rotoscoped A Scanner Darkly).