Ghost in The Shell - Innocence
Only watched the intro and first scene so far - heavy on the 3D in the intro, then a lot of 3D/2D mix. You know the stuff, CG cars and sets, 2D people comped in really nicely with great lighting so it all blends well. They really milk this technique with great camera work. "Blood" is a good anime to watch for a great example of merging these two styles. Anyway the intro to GITS-I is like futuristic soft porn for robots, and the movie is fucking awesome so far. Beautiful design, very rich world. As good as Blade Runner when you first saw that, but different not a straight ripoff.
There is a new Appleseed film coming soon (3D done in Lightwave, they love that app over there) which looks as awesome. I think this is like the next generation of anime. When we are grandparents you are going to need to strap into your seat to watch saturday morning cartoons the way things are going.
There is a new Appleseed film coming soon (3D done in Lightwave, they love that app over there) which looks as awesome. I think this is like the next generation of anime. When we are grandparents you are going to need to strap into your seat to watch saturday morning cartoons the way things are going.
posted by stompbox at 11/10/2004 06:35:00 pm
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I haven't got a chance to look at this yet. Casshern is sitting on my HDD but came down in a slightly annoying format which involves loading subtitles separatley. Proving to be a bit of a pain on my desktop from the 1800's. Visually it looks fantastic with a bizzare mix of WWII grittiness, futuristic modern airbrushiness & beautiful romantic type scenes.
A side not is apparently it is (arguably) the first movie to be shot entirely on green screen & all backgrounds have been digitally added in post.
It runs over 2 hours & given my total lack of patience for eastern storylines I get the feeling I will probably not like this as much as others that get into that sort of thing.
However visually Casshern should be killer. & so long as there's at least 30 minutes of robot fueled chop socky action I wont be too dissapointed.
And where the fuck is mine you FUCKERS!
Whingeing aside, I'm coming down in a few weeks to collect :)
GITS: Stand Alone Complex was actually pretty good for a series, bit of fun and mayhem in each epsiode with a pretty tricky/spooky underlying storyline that popped up here and there to give you the willies.
What cracked me up about the series was the adoration of the tech. I get off on the hardware and big toys of course, but they ended up making spinoff episodes dedicated to the little 'pet' cop robots that helped them out all the time. Weird shit about making friends with children and learning about emotions and being human, all a bit surreal coming from a 12 foot tall mechanical spider with gatling guns and camo-tech that talks with the voice of an 8 year old.
Cool.
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