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	<title>The Oval Portrait - Production Notebook</title>
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		<title>Officially Beaten to the Punch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My last post was about an animated attempt at The Oval Portrait that can&#8217;t really be considered a threatening precedent because of its rudimentary nature.  What I mean by &#8220;threatening precedent&#8221; is something that has been completed before your production that covers the same subject matter and is competent enough in story-telling execution and production value to be counted as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lego My Eggo Story!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Browsing around YouTube, I found that a high school student made a stop-motion Lego version of The Oval Portrait for his English class.  Of the five and a half minutes, I think about 60 seconds actually have to do with the story, but I enjoyed it.  It&#8217;s interesting to see someone else&#8217;s vision of the story.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So you&#8217;d like to write for animation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled upon an article that focuses on the possibility of Disney getting back into producing hand-drawn animated features thanks to John Lasseter.  However it has an interesting interlude that includes an old interview with Ron Clements and John Musker (The Little Mermaid, Alladin, &#8230;Treasure Planet) about their writing process.  It&#8217;s cool to read about how they work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Words of Wisdom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This time from the mouth of Pixar art director/production designer Ralph Eggleston in an interview on the Spline Doctors site.  Click here to download the full audio of the interview.
 Question: What are some of the common elements found in a really good short film?
&#8220;Brevity, Clarity, Sincerity&#8230; that&#8217;s it.&#8221;
&#8220;Be brief; get in, get out.  The second [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ovalportraitfilm.com/notebook/2006/04/19/more-words-of-wisdom/</link>
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		<title>Pitched to Jim Capobianco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday I had an incredible opportunity.  I got to pitch my OP storyboards to Pixar storyman Jim Capobianco!  Of course I was pretty nervous because I already had a big list of changes and fixes queued up, but not yet drawn, so I knew I was pitching a flawed piece.  But it was great to get [...]]]></description>
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