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astroaztec) wrote2010-04-03 10:48 pm
astroaztec) wrote2010-04-03 10:48 pm
Dragon!
How to Train Your Dragon was great!
Okay, Anne McCaffrey has done the meet the dragon story, and Avatar has done the photorealistic version, and cartoon characters with photorealistic hair and cloth were the trademark of Rankin/Bass stop motion animation, and 3-d conceits are being exploited routinely ...
but this movie put them all together very well, and more ...
these are cartoon characters that breathe!
They breathe as they speak, and they breathe as part of expressing their emotional state, and it's amazing that a cartoon can evoke cognition of how important reading those signs are when dealing with real people.
It's a good story, too, with good orchestration and some amazingly artistic flight scenes.
Okay, Anne McCaffrey has done the meet the dragon story, and Avatar has done the photorealistic version, and cartoon characters with photorealistic hair and cloth were the trademark of Rankin/Bass stop motion animation, and 3-d conceits are being exploited routinely ...
but this movie put them all together very well, and more ...
these are cartoon characters that breathe!
They breathe as they speak, and they breathe as part of expressing their emotional state, and it's amazing that a cartoon can evoke cognition of how important reading those signs are when dealing with real people.
It's a good story, too, with good orchestration and some amazingly artistic flight scenes.