'An Auckland animation company got an Oscar thrill yesterday - its work is part of a documentary in line for one of the Hollywood awards.
The Grey Lynn-based company, Flux Animation Studio, worked with former United States Vice-President Al Gore on his global warming movie, An Inconvenient Truth, which is a frontrunner for best documentary at the Academy Awards on February 25 in Hollywood.
The feature-length film follows Mr Gore's campaign to spread the word about the effects of climate change and the dangers of global warming.
Flux created two animation sequences for the movie. The first, directed by Andrew Newland, is about a polar bear searching for a piece of ice.
The other, directed by Fraser Monroe, shows what happens to a frog when the water he is swimming in is heated to boiling point.
Company founder and creative director Brent Chambers was excited to find the movie was among the nominations yesterday.
"We're absolutely rapt because it was a bit of a punt initially but it seemed like a good cause," he said.....'
Source : NZ HeraldI'm really happy about this. I did some contract work for that studio on another project and thoroughly enjoyed working for them. It's good to see people's hard work being recognised.
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