Mirrormask
I finally got around to seeing Mirrormask, which was absolutely brilliant. First, from a storytelling perspective, I'll always continue to be a complete, ogling Gaiman fanboy. I don't think he's ever written anything that hasn't tapped somehow into bits of my subconscious I didn't even know where there, but once down on the page seem obvious and that they were there all along.
From a technical and visual standpoint, this is where I'd love to see a hell of a lot more CG go. So much emphasis today is on making it look real. You've got a 50 foot ape up on the side of a building or a giant dinosaur chomping people, but do I believe it? Often, this is missing the point. It's supposed to be about the unreal and the fantastic, the heights to where our imaginations can take us. It felt liberating, like a Dali painting or abstractionist flair thrown into a world of perfect perspective realism.
From a technical and visual standpoint, this is where I'd love to see a hell of a lot more CG go. So much emphasis today is on making it look real. You've got a 50 foot ape up on the side of a building or a giant dinosaur chomping people, but do I believe it? Often, this is missing the point. It's supposed to be about the unreal and the fantastic, the heights to where our imaginations can take us. It felt liberating, like a Dali painting or abstractionist flair thrown into a world of perfect perspective realism.