Alpha and Omega
Published October 14, 2010 | 
(Finally got around to writing this! I saw it last month, just time has escaped me. XD)
It’s not amazing but it’s not terrible either. It had a ton of potential but didn’t quite meet that potential. It was ok for a brainless cartoon. I did enjoy the pretty pictures and the 3D. Though most of the time I think it would have been just fine in regular 2D. Only a few scenes really stood out.
The story is typical, you can figure it out in the first five minutes. Though I do have to give it credit for limiting horrible pop culture jokes and stupid side kicks. The side characters did hold a bit of intelligence unlike most kiddie flicks.
The acting is fine, the only part that really made me grit my teeth was when they started “howling”. They had the actors wail er… “sing” kind of. With a bunch of “oooooooooh”. I cringed every time. Bleq. I knock 10% off the film just for the howling, that’s how much it annoyed me. Thankfully though none of the woofies broke out into an obnoxious song, and the howling didn’t last more than maybe a minute at a time.
Anyways, aside from that, the animation was pretty good. Some of it was WAY over exaggerated, which is ok, but I think they should have made them act more like wolves. Too many kiddie movies make the characters act more human unlike classic animations like Lion King, or Jungle Book. They did have human qualities but you didn’t see them doing Kung Fu moves.
Hummmm I seem to find more negative than positive, oh snap! Guess I should say something good about it. WELL! What kept it from crashing was the part in the middle where they are shipped off to Idaho. They have some pretty good comedic moments there and the two bird characters they introduce are pretty funny too. The beginning is kinda ho hum and the ending is typical.
Overall, like I said, it’s not a horrible movie, but it’s not a really great one either. It missed it’s potential big time, but it would keep the kids entertained. Unless you’re an animation enthusiast I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone over 12.
Things
Published October 8, 2010 | I love CSS! It’s fun stuff, until it doesn’t want to work with the layout I made once imported to WordPress, then it drives me MAD. I am going to try to get some kind of layout made up for this site soon. I did one for Jasper and it’s kinda sparked my coding bug again. BUT we’ll see, the last layout I tried to make was epic fail and I STILL can’t get it to work properly. Heh, fail.
I’m working on a whole ton of random silly things, and I have a whole pile of icon commissions. I need to motivate myself to finish. heh ah well. :P Little break for this week since my folks are coming up here to visit all of us. It’ll be nice to see them again, it’s been over a year. I hope to see a few movies in the next couple weeks too. There’s a few that look pretty good. It’s kinda crazy that it’s October already! Not that I mind but still, time has kinda flown by, even on the super slow days. lol
So till I get something worthwhile to actually talk about in my blog or a movie to review, enjoy this speed painting I did and this silly animation I have not yet finished.
http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu16/greykitty86/sketch-4.jpg
Despereaux
Published July 12, 2010 | This was a fun movie, and a lot better than I thought it’d be. I watched about a year ago, but I came across some great storyboard animatics form the film and wanted to share them. I love looking at concept art for movies and seeing what they looked like in production and then how they look afterwards. In a way I kind of wish they had made this movie in 2D. Anyways, check out the trailer and the two animatics below and then if you haven’t seen the movie, rent it! 
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