The Adventures of Tintin, a motion capture film from Nickelodeon, became the first non-Pixar film to win the Best Animated Feature Film award at the Golden Globes this evening. It beat out four other traditional computer animated nominees, including Cars 2, for the win. This will likely reignite the debate as to whether motion capture films belong in the same category as animated films.

It's hard to know whether the win for Tintin is an indication of the outcomes of future awards shows. Rango is predicted to win the Academy Award, but you never know what weight other wins may carry into other awards shows.

The University of Utah has booked Ed Catmull, Pixar co-founder and current Pixar and Disney Animation President, to deliver its commencement address on May 4th, 2012. This isn't the first time Catmull has given speeches at the university, but will be his first commencement speech there.

Catmull is a Utah graduate himself and made significant contributions to the computer graphics industry while a student there. His student project, A Computer Animated Hand got a lot of attention and was recently added to the National Film Registry.

"It will be an honor to hear from such a notable innovator," senior class president Jamie Mathieu said in a U. release. "Ed Catmull is not only one of our most popular alumni, his story also inspires us to do great things with our lives and to keep pursuing our dreams."

Salt Lake Tribune

Graduates of the University of Utah Computer Science program have had a profound impact on the computer industry. Some of Catmull's fellow graduates have gone on to found and lead companies like Adobe, Word Perfect, Novell and Netscape

Canadian artist, Mike Boon published his newest alphabetic creation based on Pixar characters on his blog Monday.

Among many other projects, his blog features other film character themed alphabets including The Muppets, and Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles.

If you don't recognize the character on the letter X, don't feel too bad. It's actually a supporting character in the Disney cell-animated Pixar spinoff, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.