"Creative Animation Film Overview"

"Creative Animation Film Overview" 26.08.2010

This is a sort of analyze different movies. A day number 3 student lesson we get from our school NorOff- Institute here on the 3D Movie production class. I try my very best…

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First movie made by Norman Mc Laren do not give me so much, it is to me one of the typical”New Art” we sometimes can see in Modern Art Museums. Some people can “See things” where other can not see anything in same art and next time it is the opposite….
Still if it is not my style this type of art movies I like that someone use time to make them. It is good and we need a wide range of art in our culture, it is good for our brains to also use time to study movies like this…
I think I have seen similar movies in Modern Art Galleries…
Sound match with the movements and motion-speed and McLaren have used two very different colours to make a big contrast, and it is function well. Red colour on the scene-background (red is a warm colour) and blue colour on the motion parts (blue is a cold colour). I can also see MacLaren have made the blue “bobbles” not totally flat, but he have round the edges with different colour-shade or light...? This round edge-shape together with reducing sizes of the items and movements from corners and in to the centre of the scene or the opposite arrangements give me a small feeling of that he try to make a 3D scene out of the hole scene…? If 1940 is the year he made this movie he is maybe one of the pioneers of making a real 3D Movie and then the early beginning of the 3D movie world we will see more out of the next years.
I am not so sure if I am going to make this type of experimental movies in future, but we never know about the future …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3-vsKwQ0Cg&feature=player_embedded

Next movie with title Fantasmagorie made of the “Father of cartoon-movies” Emile Cohl is a great movie to study. It is 102 year old and amazing to see the hands in real come in to the scene and use the pencil, creating some art for us there!
Storey seem to me only experimental made of Cohl, but it is to understand the characters he have made there and I think that was his goal also with the movie, not to show the deep intellectual storey.
It is not my style this and I don’t think I will make this type of cartoon-movies in future, but we will see…
Animators and everyone need to thank Emile Cohl for his experimental mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEAObel8yIE&feature=player_embedded


Movie with title Cafè serrè made by Denis Bouyer/Vincent E Sousa/ Yann de Prèval and Bertrand Avril, is a type of movie I like very good and it is in my style of what type of movie I will try make in the future. It is fresh and has plenty fun included + very good animation, light, matching music and sound and the correct environment to the act + matching characters on the scene. It is short, but do not need to be longer to tell what the moviemakers like to tell us. This is high class 3D Cartoon animation!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km8MozN36Vc&feature=player_embedded


The movie Pocoyo – Something among friends! made by David Cantolla, Louis Gellego and Guillermo Garcia Carsi is a typical kid-movie for kids in age around 3-5 year old. Storey in the movie is pedagogic good and remind my about the Germans who started more early then other countries to use high level of pedagogic in their kid-movies displayed in their television-programs. Later on also other countries and movie production-companies seem to understand what important this is and started hire their own psychologist to advice the movie production companies to guide them true the movie production. It is vice since we all know that parents now usually are busier with both in work and many other things and it is easy to just put the small kids in front of the television. Then it is the television and the movies there teach the small kids their future behaviour with the way the movies are build up for the kids. Before some of the largest cartoon movie factory in the world had near 85 percent of their action in the movies a contains to let their character only run around and hunt each others in some way and let the characters do so much evil on the other character they cud manage to put in the movie. This naturally affect our small kids using so much time in front of the television and the learning attitude from movies in television also follow many of the small kids to enjoy violence when they grow up.
As I write in the beginning, the Germans understand these important things as one of the first countries in the world and now many countries following this up. It is very good  !
This type of movie I like very much and it is also my style of movies to kids I will make in future. Everything in the movie is light, not complicated, and easy to understand and it matches with music, sounds, motion, scene, facial expressions …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl-jYsMCDFE&feature=player_embedded


The movie Ryan of Chris Landreth and Ryan Larkin …….

Chris Landreth met Ryan Larkin, a renowned animator in the 60s and 70s, who had recently fallen in a spiral of excessive drinking, cocaine abuse, and homelessness. This resulted in the 2004 production of Ryan, which won an Oscar the same year.
This movie is a combination of psychedelic, realism and cartoon. It is serious and fun and interesting made. I can understand it won an Oscar. It is very creative. Movie has very high quality and have strong message. I can see many people have been involved in this movie. Maybe I cud like to make a short movie like that style one time, we see…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvfgLBMmtVs&feature=player_embedded


The movie Cyber Evolution-Fantasy animation I don’t like so much, but this is about we have different taste. I feel it is little to “easy” made, but maybe it is an old movie. I don’t really get the storey of it, what is the goal with this movie? Maybe other can see things in the movie that I can’t and that’s it…?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbwR9xFymi0&feature=player_embedded


The movie Toyota – Branding / Prius is a typical commercial advertisement movie. It is given a straight out “green” message and tries to convince people to by the Toyota car because the car is a green car…? Maybe other people run and by that car of the movie, but the movie do not convince me enough. It is hard competition out there and I would also have used something to display the difference between that car and the competition-cars. This movie is too soft after my opinion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PL0RuNgjoY&feature=player_embedded