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

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).

bvwaa on July 13rd, 2020 at 06:31 UTC »

It’s funny that they were such assholes about it. When 3D animation first started there was a similar rift between classic 2d animation and 3D animation. Traditional animators who literally drew each frame by hand, including lighting and effects like hair and fire etc... looked down on 3D animation because it was “cheating” since lighting, cloth/hair, particles, water effects could all be simulated.

kiloPascal-a on July 13rd, 2020 at 06:43 UTC »

The Oscar for Best Animated Feature is a joke and doesn't deserve to be taken seriously. Voters frequently don't even watch the movies they're voting on, others just vote for what their kids like.