Annecy to keep offering a luxuriant selection, from ancient to avant-garde works, that could hardly be seen elsewhere . I just welcome heartily such new tendencies. Festivals must present, what is new and innovative, in order to support the developement of the art of animation, just as other contemporary exhibitions in other areas of art would do. This is also one of the tendencies of the Annecy'99 programmes, yet there are a lot of different ways in which to use the computer. The spectator feels more to be in a computer adventure game than in a movie.
Fighting is fun.
In a seemingly quite normal and 'realistic' world we follow a crow and a stork, who brings the babies. These somehow mysterious new possibilities really are impressive and fascinating, but the stories behind both films are regrettably not strong enough, the allegorical scenarios too well-worn to keep the tension until the end. A lot of software has been developed in the last years to replace, partly or completely, classical techniques . In many cases it becomes difficult for the spectator to understand whether the film was made on a computer or traditionally. This concerns not only cell animation.