Ponyo Film Review

Core Premise: Hayao Miyazaki used the core concept of the original Little Mermaid, there is the themes of family bonds, power of friendship and also this idea of appreciating the natural world in which we live. This animation is darker for example the tsunami due to Ponyo creating ecological changes and also more weirder than Finding Nemo. This is a Studio Ghibli film and he is seen as the Disney of Japan. Ponyo's father is worried about nature's balance due to the evident damage and debris of our civilization.
Animation: There is 170,000 hand drawn frames and is very fluid and organic questioning the effieciency of CGI. The character artist that worked with Miyazaki, Katsuya Kondo says that the title is similar to other previous titles except this one is more aimed at younger children.
There was 50 in house key animators. Each staffs individuality needs to be taken into consideration with the animation for variation but Miyazaki is the base for everything.Its also described that the hardest part of the animation is to make things look like they are actually there this is through either bold movements or less noticeable but alive. The character designer thinks that 2d or 3d depends on whats suitable most for the naimation not one superior.
Reception: Ponyo did very well in a variety of countries.
This could be due to collaboration and the core concept being taken from something that was as popular as The Little Mermaid but also just the artistic style and story of Ponyo in general.



Bibliography
Anon, (2019). [image] Available at: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Ponyo?file=Ponyowater.png 

Triplets of Belleville film Review

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The Core Premise: There is a possible hidden moral or political meaning regarding commercialization of the entertainment industry and how profit is in charge. The Commercialism being shown by the Mafia characters which are so exaggerated they are like iconography in their shapes. There is parody seen and messages on Hollywood's cliche and industry standard for example the chase scene and also the sign' "Holly food". The triplets however connote individual artists with good skill but poor budget. The narrative includes a Tour De France cyclist and how thy started off with passion then the competition pushes them so far that they start to not be walking in the correct way and then they get kidnapped by this corporate mafia and are instead replacing their means of travel with machinery. There is connections like the train which symbolism a possible progress then there is a means of corporate reasons which causes going round and round in circles and not achieving all that much as the passion is not a part of it.In turn the whole Hollywood criticism is kind of all the same without creativity and also food representing greed and having a connection with money possibly. Like the Mafia can be seen as elitists and this French bonded family are trying to make it with these problems. The film is very Pro-France as the signs of the beret the colours white red and blue in the fireworks and is kind of depicting what could be lost by different nationalities due to them having this need to increase their marketing more like for example exploiting things like the cyclists for mere entertainment and if one loses they get shot.
Authors: The film is directed by Sylvain Chomet who decided to make this animation set in the 1960's. A french man who was working for Walt Disney who described it as a good thing but also a bad thing.he describes what he is showing is imposition of american culture on foreign cultures. So what is being imposed by them. He was influenced by people like Charlie Chaplain and other works in silence movie's and describes his style as a possible reaction to Disney trying to make characters look perfect and also because he loathed the formulatic approach and cliche that he saw in the movies they were doing he also liked having full control over the creative progress.
The Animation: There is hand drawn animation and water colour backgrounds and also there is a surreal french style without much language and more focused on the music as being a primary language instead. The film did well and got a lot of awards after finding his own path.

Bibliography
Anon, (2019). [image] Available at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-triplets-of-belleville/id530478386 

Head Modelling

added apples to bowl mudbox

different fonts for credits.

Needs more action slanted? etc bold etc.Some fonts I have been looking at. 

To change to.

Should test some with the rest on screen e.g. helmet Voltron, coloured lines etc the transitions.

I think im going to go with the second or third one down.

get 4 pictures of robin/ real better for clay modelling

old school robin

Robin Burt Ward

Head modelling progress today so far.

 

                                 

done neck, added more edge loop and sculpted average etc and more detailed eyes more divisions and so on.