{"id":5074,"date":"2017-02-27T11:43:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T16:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/?p=5074"},"modified":"2017-02-27T11:43:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T16:43:14","slug":"piper-wins-best-animated-short-film-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/piper-wins-best-animated-short-film-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Piper Wins Best Animated Short Film at the Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.wasabisys.com\/upcomingpixar\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/la-et-ms-animated-short-film-oscar-20170226.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5075\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.wasabisys.com\/upcomingpixar\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/la-et-ms-animated-short-film-oscar-20170226.jpg\" alt=\"la-et-ms-animated-short-film-oscar-20170226\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.wasabisys.com\/upcomingpixar\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/piper-disney-pixar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5076\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.wasabisys.com\/upcomingpixar\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/piper-disney-pixar-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"piper disney pixar\" width=\"772\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMany congratulations to the crew behind Pixar&#8217;s <em>Piper<\/em>, for taking home the award for Best Animated Short Film at last night&#8217;s Academy Awards ceremony. <em>Piper<\/em> is certainly an achievement\u00a0in merging animation and technology\u00a0with its minimalist approach to telling the story of a\u00a0sandpiper hatchling trying to catch food on its own. Director Alan Barillaro and producer Marc Sondheimer were all smiles in the press room after humbly accepting the Oscar on stage. Backstage Barillaro\u00a0mentioned, \u201cWhen you talk technology, the art form is the pencil \u2026 we ignored the world of realism and went for the artistic choices. A lot of the work was looking at classical paintings&#8230; The challenge as an animator\u00a0is you need to understand something before you can animate it.&#8221; Sondheimer then added,\u00a0\u201cWe studied those birds and that really helped&#8230; For three long years!&#8221;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s safe to say that doing copious amounts of research certainly made a difference in the long-run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>Many congratulations to the crew behind Pixar&#8217;s Piper, for taking home the award for Best Animated Short Film at last night&#8217;s Academy Awards ceremony. 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