Not an animated film Movies

By Rawls — Jan 15, 2010, 02:45 pm CST

Not an animated film

I can't claim any of these views or ideas as my own, but check out these couple of write ups on the movie.  They make some very interesting points, most of which I tend to agree with.  What say you?

http://mayersononanimation.blogspot.com/2010/01/schism.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/opinion/08brooks.html?ref=opinion


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  • Otoritopoit

  • Otoritopoit

    Jan 31, 2010

    Agree with nerahla. 


    Amazing movie, trully one of my favs, and they did an incredible job doing it.

    Cheers.

  • fleety

  • fleety

    Jan 27, 2010

    If they are so hell bent on calling it 'NOT' an animated film then why do they hire a guy in the role of 'Animation Supervisor'? I agree this is not an animated film in the traditional sense, but you can't bang on like there is no animation at all. You can't mocap a dragon right? I agree that it cannot reside in the animation categrory of an awards ceremony though...oh I don't know what I think, it's all too new.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq_nRfoBSm0&feature=related

    Last edited by fleety; 27-01-2010 at 04:28 PM

  • AldoLuna

  • AldoLuna

    Jan 25, 2010

    Amazingly well done film visually

    They have definitely pushed the technology and to think that all that was done with programs and equipment that is now a couple of years old. What are we capable of now?

  • Meteorskies

  • Meteorskies

    Jan 17, 2010

    Surely the innovations Avatar brought through the whole process change the standards of animations, and I think actors do feel the difference while acting their character. I've just finished reading the last Cinefex in which the whole walk-through process is detailed, and I can assure you that it is no more an animation movie.�

    Regarding the articles, I think M. David Brooks kinda reverses the problem : in my mind, it's not "that illiteracy is the path to grace" which stands as an assumption, but that our ways can't lead to grace. If you take this statement as a start, then you understand we naturally want to come back to a state in which human being doesn't remember having existential concerns, which appear to be a state with less "culture" and literacy.

    Last edited by Meteorskies; 18-01-2010 at 04:05 PM

  • Rawls

  • Rawls

    Jan 17, 2010

    Yea, I read that the reason that the industry and awards people regard this as a VFX film and not animation is that it majorly involves mo-cap and compositing of the 3d characters into shots with live actors.  Either way, animation or vfx, it was amazing.

    Last edited by Rawls; 17-01-2010 at 02:21 PM

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  • dmitrij_leppee

  • dmitrij_leppee

    Jan 17, 2010

    Well it isn't animation in a classical sense, but in etimological it is very much. You have an immovable 3D model, and you make it alive by means that aren't drawings nor 3D keyframes, but motion capture. End of point :D

  • arizlaan

  • arizlaan

    Jan 17, 2010

    I have to say they did a pretty  job..
    I agree with Nerahla

  • Majora28

  • Majora28

    Jan 16, 2010

    I can't wait for the making of on that dvd  :) its just geniusly done!

    • Schmoek

    • Schmoek

      Jan 17, 2010

      Thing with the DVD is: The movie just doesn't work on any screen but a cinema's - This was done to demonstrate a technique (certainly not to tell a story). While I'm also very curious about the making-of, I don't think I'll be buying this.

  • nerahla

  • nerahla

    Jan 15, 2010

    Wow, it's a movie.  Just a movie.  Entertainment.  Mr. Cameron said so himself.   Get over yourself guy.  Stop hurting your brain with all that thinking, eat the popcorn and enjoy it for what it is - a movie.



    Silly.

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