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Gone Nutty'Gone Nutty' nominated for Academy Award

Carlos Saldanha directed this year's animated short contender, "Gone Nutty."

From Variety's Award Central (Dec. 9, 2003):

Although it follows the further adventures of an "Ice Age" character, it was completed long after that movie's release, qualifying with the Academy by winning the L.A. Short Film Festival.

As has often been the case with computer-generated shorts, it served to test new CG technology, and the benefits keep accruing. Saldanha, who's now directing the next Blue Sky/Fox feature "Robots," reports, "We've been able to use techniques from 'Gone Nutty' in our new film."
Read the full article at Variety's Award Central.