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took my children to see this at the weekend and enjoyed it a lot more than I was expecting
it's got bad reviews - the story is thin, the facial character animation is weak, the script is below average, the human figures you see have very basic skeleton motion (maybe that was an art direction decision).
It gives the impression it's aimed at 6-7 year olds (but my 10 year old son enjoyed it) - it certainly ain't Pixar..
..but hell its all 3d - I've seen some 3d movies before but those are with bits of 3d incorporated into live action - this is all 3d render
there's some fine camera moves, great rendering and some attractively set up scenes
I think the t-ds and art directors were good and the character creators not so good - maybe the production ran out of money too soon
but well worth seeing if you're a 3d fan!
(also the subject matter of landing on the moon is one I like - I remember the Apollo 11 landing - I bet most of you lot don't!)
other notes:
it's interesting that standard cinematic language doesn't always work
cross fades dont work so well when you are fading acros different distances - your eyes can't track what to look at
and the convention of conversation where you get over-shoulder shot one, over-shoulder shot two, full frame of both characters type thing - that doesn't work either so in a lot more cases the camera is static or moving around the scene slowly - but not cutting from one to another
and lastly I'm curious, how much more time do you think it takes to do over a normal cg movie?
is it just rendered with a z depth channel?
I guess most of the extra time must be in the editing - is there a special tool for editing in 3d?
it's got bad reviews - the story is thin, the facial character animation is weak, the script is below average, the human figures you see have very basic skeleton motion (maybe that was an art direction decision).
It gives the impression it's aimed at 6-7 year olds (but my 10 year old son enjoyed it) - it certainly ain't Pixar..
..but hell its all 3d - I've seen some 3d movies before but those are with bits of 3d incorporated into live action - this is all 3d render
there's some fine camera moves, great rendering and some attractively set up scenes
I think the t-ds and art directors were good and the character creators not so good - maybe the production ran out of money too soon
but well worth seeing if you're a 3d fan!
(also the subject matter of landing on the moon is one I like - I remember the Apollo 11 landing - I bet most of you lot don't!)
other notes:
it's interesting that standard cinematic language doesn't always work
cross fades dont work so well when you are fading acros different distances - your eyes can't track what to look at
and the convention of conversation where you get over-shoulder shot one, over-shoulder shot two, full frame of both characters type thing - that doesn't work either so in a lot more cases the camera is static or moving around the scene slowly - but not cutting from one to another
and lastly I'm curious, how much more time do you think it takes to do over a normal cg movie?
is it just rendered with a z depth channel?
I guess most of the extra time must be in the editing - is there a special tool for editing in 3d?
to post one of the obvious.
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