My morning paper noted that animator Kunio Kato thanked his pencil in his acceptance speech for the 2009 Oscar for animated short.
He also quoted a memorable line from a 1983 Styx song.
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When I watched this gentleman on the telly I missed the encomium (well, the mention of) to his pencil, but I caught his “Domo arigato Mr. Roboto” right off and that floored me. Maybe the animators who frequent Pencil Talk can tell us through the grapevine what pencil Kunio Kato prefers?
I’ll bet that Kunio Kato prefers Tombow Mono 100s.
Ah, too bad he has such a struggle with speaking English. It looks like he thanked his pencil because he was quickly trying to think up something else to thank, rather than it being more sincere…
I would have loved to see him say something like this: “And thank you to my trusty mechanical pencil,” “which helped make my animation possible!”