Vic: Pixar animation exhibition headed for Melbourne

AAP General News (Australia)
08-01-2006
Vic: Pixar animation exhibition headed for Melbourne

MELBOURNE, Aug 1 AAP - An exhibition of artwork from renowned Hollywood animation studio
Pixar, which created movie favourites Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Cars, will go on show
in Melbourne next year.

The display, at the Australia Centre for the Moving Image, will feature original paintings,
concept art, sketches, sculptures and digital installations used in generating Pixar's
films.

It will be on display in June 2007.

Premier Steve Bracks said it was appropriate the exhibition was part of Melbourne's
winter masterpieces series which has previously mounted blockbuster shows of the paintings
of Picasso, the Impressionists and the Dutch masters.

"Masterpieces come in many forms," Mr Bracks said.

"Digital media is one of the great forms which obviously will be identified by generations
of people to come."

Mr Bracks said he had already seen most of the animation studio's productions which
also include A Bug's Life, Monsters, and The Incredibles.

Next year Pixar will release Ratatouille, a film about a rat in Paris.

"The last one, Cars, was pretty good. I've still go my third child young enough so
I can have an excuse to go to some of these events," Mr Bracks said.

"You need an excuse. If you can't, you've got to borrow some child from somewhere else to go."

Australian animator Adam Elliott, who beat Pixar in 2004 to win an Oscar for his short
film Harvie Krumpet featuring plasticine characters, welcomed the coming exhibition.

"I really think that as animators and artists this will be a great chance for us to
really nourish ourselves and learn from these masters so that we can create our own unique
stories and Australian stories," he said.

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