I doubt most of the Family Guy team is in the Academy, seeing as you have to work on features to get in. Most of the people who work on Family Guy work exclusively on television, including Seth McFarlane.PatrickvD wrote:Family Guy and its creators at FOX animation form a big team of animators and potential voters for him.
Personally, if I was a movie/television producer, I would also single out the good projects. Plus, he saying he's producing it, which is accurate. He's not taking credit away from the incredible writers and directors who worked on the shows.He slaps 'producer' on so many projects it's easy to single out the ones that are great like The Animaniacs and take credit for it, ignoring the mountains of crap.
Has he produced some less-than-satisfying animated projects? Yes, but I choose to remember the good ones.
What's particularly crazy is that the Avatar team worked on Tintin as well. So, on Avatar, it wasn't animation, but on Tintin, it is? Pretty sure they used the exact same technique. And I side with Cameron on this subject.At first the Academy accepted mo-cap films as animated; then they formed new additional rules to clarify mo-cap as distinct from animation to satisfy James Cameron who pushed for this. Now that another big Hollywood honcho like Spielberg tells them it's animation they're going along with it again.