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Open Season

Posted on October 20, 2006  | 1 Comment
Filed under Animation

I just went to see Open Season with my friends Richie and Trystan and we had a great time. I have to admit that the story felt a bit like a mix between Madagascar, Ice Age and Shreck. “Nature versus civilisation”, “there is no US”, “the main character and the sidekick”, you know the usual animation recipe. However the animation, character designs and environments were a pure delight.

The animation on Beth the park ranger especially at the begining was very weak but the rest of the movie was excellent. If you like strong poses then you will be very pleased. Shaw the vilain was very entertaining, Martin Lawrence as Boog was very Martin Lawrence and still very funny. The animators did a great job with Boog and managed to get strong poses for the 900 pound grizzly bear, and Elliot was your regular overexcited sidekick.

Contrary to Incredibles, the generic characters weren’t so generic and had a lot of appeal.

Great stuff.

3D Character Animation Comes of Age in the U.K

Posted on October 19, 2006  | 1 Comment
Filed under Animation

3D Character Animation Comes of Age in the U.K

I just found that very interesting article on VFXworld.com about the reemerging VFX industry in London.

You will need to register in order to read it but don’t worry it’s free and painless.

Open season Diaries
Great reading here too.

Also, you might want to watch those clips from Aardmann/Dreamworks “Flushed Away”
Ok it’s a pain to copy and paste all the urls but trust me this is really worth it and they are all quicktime files no crappy flash videos.

[edit] I actually created a page with all the links so go here instead.