Animal Anarchy: The Thrilling AnimAID Auction in Action! 🎞️💸
auctioning animation relics and rarities to collect funds for Los Angeles wildfire recovery
The animation community is uniting forces with ASIFA-Hollywood to launch AnimAID and an exclusive auction at the prestigious Sotheby's! funds raised will help industry folks who've been hammered by LA's wildfires. Top players like Disney, Warner Bros, Sony Animation, DreamWorks, LAIKA, and more dig deep to donate unique, prized pieces of animation art for bidders to grab!
Disney legends and animation producers, such as Don Hahn (Beauty and the Beast, Howard), champion the cause on Instagram; urging supportive fans:
"LA's fires drove a hard blow to the animation community, but we're standing together now! Donating artwork worth its weight in gold 💃🏻💫✨ to the AnimAID auction at Sotheby's! It's all going straight to victims of the LA fires, y'all!"
Spanning over 90 years of stunning, cinematic, and televisual art, the auction boasts fan-favorites like Snow White, The Simpsons, Inside Out, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Wild Robot, Beauty and the Beast, Avatar, and many more!
Don Hahn continued, "Every bid, every dollar, makes a world of difference! Together, we help our colleagues rebuild homes and lives."
The auction's live bidding is in full swing, and here's a glimpse of pieces you could own! Commissioned artwork, studio tours, signed posters, original production drawings, and animation cells are all up for grabs!
For live bidding and further info check it out here!
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- The event due at Sotheby's, AnimAID auction, will showcase various pieces of technology in the form of signed posters, original production drawings, and animation cells, which are all up for grabs in the live bidding.
- In the animation industry, renowned personalities like Don Hahn, known for movies such as 'Beauty and the Beast', are advocating for supporting the AnimAID auction at Sotheby's, which aims to provide assistance to those affected by the LA wildfires.
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