Just Sketches Today

[secondlina]

 


Lots of random stuff. And a Warrick. And a mermaid with a hook hand. And a drawing of Katara and Sokka as adults : 



I'm so sleepy on weekends. seriously. I can't seem to get my butt out of bed before 11. What's up with that? I want to work!

Yesterday night I watched some robot chicken with a friend and then watched Toy Story 1 while I sketched. 

I have to admit, 3D animation seems to age a lot less gracefully then 2-D animation. However, I believe that 3-D animation is now at a stage where it's good enough to start aging gracefully. And pretty much the only 2-D animation that ages gracefully is high-quality stuff. Older anime and tv cartoons?  Ouch. Look at those age lines.

Daria aged pretty gracefully (aside from the fashion being really out of fashion, that poor fashion club!) but then again, it was never really that much into moving and really focused on the dialogue instead.

- Isa

Comments

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

I broke down and watched Toy Story the other night, too, although my thoughts on computer animation were a bit different. Maybe since I have a better display now than I did originally, I never noticed just how much texture there was in the first movie. The animations are definitely stiffer though, but I think that's one reason why Pixar chose to make a movie about toys in the first place. Many were going to be stiff in movement anyway, so it wouldn't make the movie suffer. (And in fact, continuing to make use of this is what made it so amusing watching Barbie and Ken in action in the newest movie!) The humans and Scud were definitely stiff though, something I'm glad to see has changed as technology has improved.

Generations from now, Toy Story will be to current CGI movies as Snow White is to traditional animation.

(And you'll be proud of me! A collector's edition of the first season of Avatar was released and Amazon was selling it 50% off, so I broke down and bought it. I should be getting it in a week or so.)

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Toy Story was the first, and despite evolution of the genre, it still deserves praise. I have to agree about the humans though. Compare Hiccup to the original Andy? Or even both Andys? Yeah. Not pretty.

The movements they chose to do ("flailing" woody, "squeaky" barbie) made me laughs so hard. I loved it.

Woo! I hope you like it!