CALARTS' CHOY, `POSSUM' WIN STUDENT OSCAR.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA -- CalArts student Chris Choy has been named a winner in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 33rd annual Student Academy Awards competition. He will receive his award June 10 in Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. . Choy is a student in the character animation Character animation is a specialized process of the animation process, concerning the animation of one or more characters featured in an animated work. It is usually as one aspect of a larger production, and often to complement voice acting. program at Valencia's California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. . He won the student Academy Award for his film ``The Possum'' in the animation category. CalArts President Steven Lavine said Choy follows a long line of students honored for their work in character and experimental ammoniation. ``Many of those winners have gone on to become the leaders of the animation industry today,'' Lavine said. Completed in 2005, Choy's hand-drawn film is a suspenseful tale of an apple farmer and a possum possum or phalanger Any of several species (family Phalangeridae) of nocturnal, arboreal marsupials of Australia and New Guinea. They are 22–50 in. (55–125 cm) long, including the long prehensile tail, and have woolly fur. . This is the third time Choy's work has been recognized by the Academy. He was a finalist in the Student Academy Award competition for his films ``Blind Date'' in 2002 and ``Cats'' in 2004. While the American winners have been notified that they will each receive an award, the level of that award -- gold, silver or bronze -- will not be revealed until the ceremony. CalArts students have been recognized throughout the history of the Student Academy Awards. In recent years, Jen Sachs received a silver medal in 2002 for ``The Velvet Tigris''; Brooke Keesling won a gold medal in 2001 for ``Boobie Girl''; Tod Polson won the gold in 2000 for ``Al Tudi Tuhak'' (``Long, Long Ago''); and Jamie Maxfield was awarded a silver medal in 1999 for ``Between the Lines Between the lines can refer to:
John Lasseter, a CalArts alumnus ALUMNUS, civil law. A child which one has nursed; a foster child. Dig. 40, 2, 14. and executive vice president of creative development at Pixar Animation Studios, is the only person to win a gold medal Student Academy Award two years in a row -- 1979 and 1980. |
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