MANILA, Philippines?Emmy Award winner Lee Stringer, the computer graphic supervisor of the TV series ?Star Wars: The Clone Wars? (2008) and ?Battlestar Galactica: Razor? (2007), is in town as guest speaker at the 2nd Animahenasyon Pinoy Animation Festival, which opens today at the CCP.

Stringer was also the CG supervisor of ?Firefly,? which won an Emmy for Best Visual Effects for a Series in 2003, and aired on Fox TV. He?s currently the CG supervisor for Lucasfilm, the production company owned by George Lucas.

Tributes to Alcala, Marcelo

The event also features an exhibit of the works of the late cartoonist Larry Alcala, last year?s Animahenasyon Lifetime Achievement Awardee, at 6 p.m. at the Little Theater lobby.

The festival officially kicks off at 7 p.m. with an opening speech from Stringer. Set for 8:30 p.m. is the screening of teasers of the full-length Pinoy animated films ?Dayo? and ?RGB,? both currently in production. This is followed by the screening of ?Tadhana,? the first feature-length animated Pinoy film created by the late cartoonist Nonoy Marcelo in 1978.

Incidentally, an exhibit titled ?Ang Bos Tsip ni Ikabod: A Tribute to Nonoy Marcelo? will be unveiled tomorrow, 4:30 p.m., at the DSLU-CSB School of Design Arts Campus on P. Ocampo Street, Malate, Manila.

Marcelo is this year?s Animahenasyon Lifetime Achievement awardee.

This year?s entries to the Animahenasyon festival are the works of ?determined and hardworking? young animators, according to festival juror and veteran animator Pablo Biglang-awa.

The grand winner will be announced in an awards show on Nov. 15.