mocap and animation

Mark Mayerson has a few posts about how the animators are loosing ground to motion capture and for once it is writen from a non agressive/attacking stance but from a postion of intrest and of
debate. The sad fact is that even the best cg animated films are weak because of story or insert your own reason here and they have nothing to do with being well animated or not.. I watched some old disney movies recently and the pacing and most of all, character dialog was so much better. Not this constant hip/ pop culture inside joke crap that fills shrek 1-3 and over the hedge etc...

I am all for art being like this but we don't need every single film to be this way.. I for once would like to watch a film that was well crafted entertainment and not just a series of pop- referencing, out of date as soon as it is released , poop humor , big name star filled , wast of money that so often ends up on the big screen and small with the direct to dvd trash that fills the shelf and then the landfill.

So mocap or not, we need better films - here is hoping that pixar now Disney can fix the mess they made of animated films and produce a film that makes people fall in love with animation agian. Mocap is a reality of the industry right now and so is hand animation but very few people in charge of money seem to know when or why you would use one over the other...cause the fact is they both are costly and both require lots of time and effort and most of all need people that are skilled with movement/performance and acting or you end up with a pile of steaming crap on the screen.

happy holidays

this is just a simple post to say I am so happy that this year is almost over for so many people. I hope that everyone have a bit of peace and hope and love this holiday season.

Here is wishing that 07 is a brighter and happier year than 06.

If every one can just think one non selfish good thought every day for week I think we would have a little better world, and people would notice and then the good thoughts would just happen more and more because people would be happy.

see yall next year ...