Noice
has brushes etc too
Good for a no-talent beginner.... hmmm
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
SHREK 2
.. was pretty good. The kids loved it. I kept nodding off, after a long dayshift at work.
Anyway the animation was cool, especially the girl shrek. Some of the humans sometimes look a bit POSERy, like "CG human", but when they got the CARTOONY cg human look down it worked a treat. The script was cool, they tied in every fairytale cliche in a good way, and it is better and richer than the first film.
But there are a few things towards the end that feel tacked on scriptwise, and I still feel Dreamworks cant quite pull it off as well as PIXAR. The CG look they get doesnt quite pull you in enough, you're always thinking "Oh it's CG" instead of being immersed in the story, and you never forget it's a big name actor, so there's that making it hard to accept the characters 100%.
Great school holidays kids film, I can see why it's doing so well @ box office, but from 3D nerd standpoint comparing it to Nemo is like comparing Antz to Bugs Life. No contest.
Saw trailers for Shark Tale - REALLY the "Antz" to Pixars Nemo, but the kids will love it and Scorcese's scene with De Niro looked funny. Also THE INCREDIBLES which looks pretty bloody amazing in terms of character design, script, dialogue, performance - like everything that worked for me on Monsters Inc taken to the Nth degree, AND in the family lineup pose they look like the old Fantastic 4 - this one will really hit a chord with both generations, Saturday morning cartoon nostalgia here we come.
Anyway the animation was cool, especially the girl shrek. Some of the humans sometimes look a bit POSERy, like "CG human", but when they got the CARTOONY cg human look down it worked a treat. The script was cool, they tied in every fairytale cliche in a good way, and it is better and richer than the first film.
But there are a few things towards the end that feel tacked on scriptwise, and I still feel Dreamworks cant quite pull it off as well as PIXAR. The CG look they get doesnt quite pull you in enough, you're always thinking "Oh it's CG" instead of being immersed in the story, and you never forget it's a big name actor, so there's that making it hard to accept the characters 100%.
Great school holidays kids film, I can see why it's doing so well @ box office, but from 3D nerd standpoint comparing it to Nemo is like comparing Antz to Bugs Life. No contest.
Saw trailers for Shark Tale - REALLY the "Antz" to Pixars Nemo, but the kids will love it and Scorcese's scene with De Niro looked funny. Also THE INCREDIBLES which looks pretty bloody amazing in terms of character design, script, dialogue, performance - like everything that worked for me on Monsters Inc taken to the Nth degree, AND in the family lineup pose they look like the old Fantastic 4 - this one will really hit a chord with both generations, Saturday morning cartoon nostalgia here we come.
TEXTURE
Texturing thread on CGtalk worth checking out (step by step run through)
The SHIROW guys want me to get up to speed on texturing, which will do me good. Not as rock star as modelling or character animation, but I need to learn it for my own stuff so it's a good deal.
AND here's the Spinquad version of the same thread,
Has some texturing tute links worth looking into:
The SHIROW guys want me to get up to speed on texturing, which will do me good. Not as rock star as modelling or character animation, but I need to learn it for my own stuff so it's a good deal.
AND here's the Spinquad version of the same thread,
Has some texturing tute links worth looking into:
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
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