Over at the Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Blvd, I met up with 3 of the clever people behind the Oscar-winning film Logorama yesterday – (inset: left to right) co-director Hervé de Crécy, producer Nicolas Schmerkin and co-director Francois Alaux. They all had a look in their eyes that I think only Oscar winners get, and I heard quick mentions of partying with Madonna the night before and an upcoming CNN interview – all while their cell phones endlessly rang.

Next up for Autour de Minuit founder Schmerkin is a series of CG/live-action shorts called Babioles. I’ve seen the first episode, and it’s wonderful. Here’s a teaser from the project, which is being directed by Matray:

Surprising almost noone, Up took home the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film last night. In this clip below, director Pete Docter offers advice on how to get your own Oscar – “draw, draw, draw.” He also touches on the collaborative nature of his fellow Pixar directors like John Lasseter and Brad Bird. Big congrats to the whole team at Pixar, and to François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain, the three directors of Logorama, which won the Best Animated Short prize.

We’ll soon know if Logorama pulls in an Oscar nomination this year (I’d bank on it), but the 16-minute film produced by H5, a French collective, is now online thanks to the French newspaper Le Monde.

Logorama is one of the more clever animated shorts I’ve seen in some time. Perhaps it’s overly clever. At 16-minutes, we see nearly every major corporate mark offered up as an ironic sight gag, and I found myself a bit saturated with the cuteness of it all. Maybe that’s the point. The entire film, which was shortlisted for an Oscar this year, isn’t available online yet, but a clip can be seen below. It was produced by H5, a French collective heaed by François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain.