Third Oscar win for AC animation alumnus
Posted on Monday, February 27th, 2017
Algonquin College Alumni Trent Correy – (Disney)
It’s a third Oscar win for Algonquin College alumnus Trent Correy, who worked on Zootopia, the winner of the Best Animated Feature at Sunday night’s 89th Academy Awards ceremony.
Zootopia, which has grossed over $1 billion U.S., is a 3D computer-animated comedy set, as Entertainment Weekly puts it, in an “anthropomorphic world of bunny cops, crooked foxes, and cheetahs with short attention spans.” It beat out four other films, including Moana, which Correy also worked on, to take the top spot.
Correy recently told the Ottawa Citizen that he helped animated several characters in Zootopia, including Nick Wild, a con artist fox, Judy Hopps, a police bumny, and Flash and Priscilla, a pair of sloths. He also said his work on Moana included a musical scene, featuring a song called “You’re Welcome.”
He told Citizen reporter Joanne Laucius that he combined his high-school interests in art and filmmaking by signing up for Algonquin’s animation program.
“Not a lot of schools teach hand-drawn animation any more,” Correy told the newspaper. “It’s such a good, fundamental way to learn.”
Correy, who graduated from the animation program in 2008, began working for Disney the same year, eventually working on such films as Wreck-It Ralph, Frozen, Moana andZootopia.
Earlier this year, Zootopia also won a Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature; beating out Moana and three other films. Correy was also part of the Walt Disney Studios’ teams that won Oscars for Big Hero 6 and Frozen. You can see one of the sequences he animated for Moana here.
What’s next? Correy told the Citizen he was working on Wreck-It Ralph II, scheduled for a 2018 release. You can read the Citizen story here, and previous stories about Correy’s award-winning work here and here.
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