My Idol...

Carlos is probably my biggest idol...
And here is another reason why...




At the end... when he starts talking about how he continues learning about animation... you can truly feel how much he loves animation just by looking at his eyes...

Pure inspiration!

and here we go again...

Serkis gave another interview on his performances... and the emotions are cooking high again...

I think he deserves the credit. And they truly are HIS acting choices... in my opinion he deserved an oscar for Gollum... that was just freakin brilliant work! Period! I would be frustrated too, to not getting considered for an oscar just because i played in the wrong movie... 

But he shouldnt play the animators work down as he does... it just seems like he doesnt really understand the process of an animator because hes not really interested in it...

And those people who wrote him hate mail are just jerks!
The animators community is based on accepting everyones opinion and growing together...
And im sure if serkis would take a deeper look in the creative process of us animators he wouldnt say stuff like that.


All that of course is only my humble opinion... 

Impossible is nothing

Stumbled upon this here today while browsing youtube for new animation dialogues... and remembered how motivational it was as i first saw it on tv...



All these legends together... and its true...

impossible is nothing!

Oh those gobelins show offs...

If i could go back and choose a school to go to... i would go to gobelins. Even before calarts or AAU... Almost every piece ive seen coming from their students is awesome...

Like this short...
I love the mood so much...

The Night We Were Kings from Cube Creative on Vimeo.

My favourite parts - 7 - How to train your Dragon

Wait what?! Yes i decided to write about other awesome film moments because there is more out there than just Pixar! :-) so my favourite non-Pixar movie is definitely HttyD.
To me this was the first time that Dreamworks catched up with Pixar in terms of story and animation. (Kung Fu Panda was close... but not quiet as awesome)
A very cool soundtrack and very cool characters did the rest. Also there are some amazing visuals like the one in the beginning when hickup walks up to his house with the blond teacher guy (sorry dont remember the name) the whole picture looks more like a painting than a scene from a movie... same for the scene in the end when stoic walks over to toothless who is lying on the ground... again... a painting not a scene from a movie... beautiful!
My first highlight, animation wise, for this film is the one that is cool for everyone... toothless... His character and also his moves specially in those sequences when the two get to know each other is just awesome... The combination of all the animals the animators have studied works so nicely together and some of the character stuff is simply hilarious.
And the scene when hickup holds up his hand and toothless puts his nose in the hand... that one is soooo beautifully subtile... no words needed...
Thats when the movie took a huge leap and didnt feel like animation anymore but like a big film.


The next thing that amazed me is Stoic. They really gave him so much depth... such a huge character... but how he holds hiccup there when he thanks toothless... thats another goosebump moment... and his character arc over the movie is definitely as big as hiccups. Maybe im so amazed by him because he reminded me of my own father. Its just so cool to feel that inside he loves his son but he is very insecure about how to deal with him because he doesnt understand why hiccup is doing all that stuff that seems unimportant or weird to him.
His beard is amazing!
And i love gerard butlers voice! :-)

Very beautiful movie!

My favourite parts - 6 - Nemo

Stanton at its best...
He is an amazing storyteller, and nemo is such a complete film, you just have to love it.
The sondtrack is probably my favourite out of all Pixar films... and its filled with lots and lots of details.
Ive just recently bought the art of finding nemo and all the amazing drawings... specially simon varelas stuff is just stunning!
Its also one of the few movies that has a very good german version. Wich is also something pixar manages to do quiet well overall.

The part that stands out to me in particular for this movie is this here:

finally Nemo and Marlin are reunited.
But the very special thing about it was to see doug sweatland talk about it on the pixar story.
There you see how deep he thinks into the shot, the subtext, what every gesture means.
Doug is a genious anyways and this part shows how every animator should think...
I feel it brought my own work on a completely new level when i really started to think about the character, the subtext and really tried to figure out what every gesture will mean. That was one of these moments when it somehow clicked for me...

Geesh i love animation! :-)

My favourite parts - 5 - Wall-E

Were getting to one of my all time favourites...
I just love the characters so much... i love the setting, the story... everything... the only thing i was a bit disappointed about was that the movie is a bit split into these two parts... its just some kind of bump more in the visual style that disappointed me because i was so amazed by that post human world... the axiom is much more cartoony... but anyways... the story is beautiful and as i mentioned... wall-e is my favourite pixar character of all time!
You have to know how to animate first to be able to give him that robotic moves but still give him sooooo much character...
The part that stood out to me the most... is probably the one that stood out to everyone the most...

beautiful...

:-) so full of detail... i love how the cockroach is walking up and down... looking at them... then going again... like in a hospital... so perfect... then... 2:29... how eve holds him in the moment she gives up hope...
and then the kiss...
 ok first... i have never ever experienced something that was quiet as this moment at a theatre than on this movie... no one dared to breathe... dead silence... and then comes his questioning "evaa?" (im having goose bumps again) its just perfect...
And again... its not just the whole scene but how deep they go here... not all the new parts made him whole again... its that little kiss from eva... the love she feels when she kisses him goodbye... thats what truly revives him... awesome also because they established the strength of her kiss and the influence on him in the space/dance sequence where it overloads his system and lets it crash... but now that much energy/love was needed to revive his soul... awww... so beautiful...

btw... go to carlos baenas website to see what he did here... the broken wall-e is just awesome... 

:-) i love writing about animation... :-)