Post #12

I have already in my blog discussed very fun movies that Disney has released to their viewers and as well have described some movies by pixar. I decided to look in to a differnt production company and analyze their work so i remebered one of the neatest movies for me personally ever to be made was Ice age, even though the character in the movie were of real life animals they were made to look like them in a funnier and unrealist wasy which made their face more entertaining to me. The characters were a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth that find a lost human infant in which they try to return to the tribe. Although the movie was made for mostly children it had so much entertainment for adults. I thought the characters were great and the technology that the artists used you can tell in 2002 was different then what we had been watching previous to that. The characters in the movie look goofy and quickly grow on you. There facial movements are slower reacting then many other films and there extremely exaggerated which gives these characters this goofy distorted look which worked out obviously because it made it through the entertainment business and many have enjoyed it as much as i have. I think also the characters voices made were matched so perfect for their unusuall look, it gave the characters that extra length that intrigued viewers.

Post #11

Post #11

I had never seen the movie Toy Story 2 until class today, i did although see the first one many years ago and had loved it because of all the distinct characters in the movie. Its great to see each character in this movie with their own voices, movements and personalities. It defines the movie and gives it more of depth that veiwers look for. I was actually just remembering another movie that was in comparison to that and it was Snow white, each character of the Dwarfs had their own characteristics which allows the audiance to tell the difference between each character all though they are all similar looking in the movie. Thats what i believe is a definition of good characters in a movie. Also in the movie Toy story 2 the one major thing that caught my interest is that is although this movie is a cartoon and one would think it was for children only, the artists who created this movie also made it interesting for adults to watch by putting lines in the scenes that only adults would catch to entertain them as well their children.

Post #10

In my last blog I described scenes in some disney films and gave you some input about Disney's hidden images, Where they are found and explained how often mickey the most popular character of disney production appeared and why. Well, one main reason is that disney has made a sport about having there hidden mickeys discovered by their veiwers. So inserting hidden mickey heads in clips of the movie is entertainment for the audience but yet a snip holder for the artists developing major scenes in the story line. Since we just watched pocahontas in class i wanted to see if i can find any secret images for this movie.
After scrolling thru the wonderful world of the internet, I found 3 scenes in the movie where sorounding images of the main characters move together to give the veiwers an image of Mickey Mouses head. In the scene where Pocahontas is told that her father has returned, before she jumps down the cliff, we see a clip of Meeko eating berries. In his hands and in the bushes he is finding these berries they all form the image of mickey's ears and head. If you dont know what to look for its very hard to acknowledge the image because its is so small. Also, in the scene when the girls in the field return to the village after hearing a steady drum. A few trees are moving closer together as the drumming becomes more obvious and form Mickey. This image is a little clearer i thought because it a lot larger than the first. One more really good image i found was when Percy's and Meeko fight infront of Grandmother Willow she creates the ripples in the water nearby and one after the other images of Mickey again appear. These are seem so vague or some even seem as a coincidence because mickeys an easy character to create.

Post #10

In my last blog I described scenes in some disney films and gave you some input about Disney's hidden images, Where they are found and explained how often mickey the most popular character of disney production appeared and why. Well, one main reason is that disney has made a sport about having there hidden mickeys discovered by their veiwers. So inserting hidden mickey heads in clips of the movie is entertainment for the audience but yet a snip holder for the artists developing major scenes in the story line. Since we just watched pocahontas in class i wanted to see if i can find any secret images for this movie.
After scrolling thru the wonderful world of the internet, I found 3 scenes in the movie where sorounding images of the main characters move together to give the veiwers an image of Mickey Mouses head. In the scene where Pocahontas is told that her father has returned, before she jumps down the cliff, we see a clip of Meeko eating berries. In his hands and in the bushes he is finding these berries they all form the image of mickey's ears and head. If you dont know what to look for its very hard to acknowledge the image because its is so small. Also, in the scene when the girls in the field return to the village after hearing a steady drum. A few trees are moving closer together as the drumming becomes more obvious and form Mickey. This image is a little clearer i thought because it a lot larger than the first. One more really good image i found was when Percy's and Meeko fight infront of Grandmother Willow she creates the ripples in the water nearby and one after the other images of Mickey again appear. These are seem so vague or some even seem as a coincidence because mickeys an easy character to create.

Post #10

In my last blog I described scenes in some disney films and gave you some input about Disney's hidden images, Where they are found and explained how often mickey the most popular character of disney production appeared and why. Well, one main reason is that disney has made a sport about having there hidden mickeys discovered by their veiwers. So inserting hidden mickey heads in clips of the movie is entertainment for the audience but yet a snip holder for the artists developing major scenes in the story line. Since we just watched pocahontas in class i wanted to see if i can find any secret images for this movie.
After scrolling thru the wonderful world of the internet, I found 3 scenes in the movie where sorounding images of the main characters move together to give the veiwers an image of Mickey Mouses head. In the scene where Pocahontas is told that her father has returned, before she jumps down the cliff, we see a clip of Meeko eating berries. In his hands and in the bushes he is finding these berries they all form the image of mickey's ears and head. If you dont know what to look for its very hard to acknowledge the image because its is so small. Also, in the scene when the girls in the field return to the village after hearing a steady drum. A few trees are moving closer together as the drumming becomes more obvious and form Mickey. This image is a little clearer i thought because it a lot larger than the first. One more really good image i found was when Percy's and Meeko fight infront of Grandmother Willow she creates the ripples in the water nearby and one after the other images of Mickey again appear. These are seem so vague or some even seem as a coincidence because mickeys an easy character to create.

Post #9

Okay......We have all seen many Disney films especially in our childhood. But recently within the past couple of years Disneys public watchers have had concerns of some films having hidden subliminal images which have been featured. One movie in which i remember personally is the Lion King in where the main character Simba kicks of on a plant and a cloud arises. To a person caught up in the movie it is not obvious that the word "SEX" is spelled out with the clouds. With a remote control if you pause it you can make out the word vaguely. The question is does Disney do that on purpose? Well, i went on the internet to see if i can get some information on it. The only neat information i came up with is that they can do it. Sounds Odd???Well not really because Disney could claim that they would never produce such images but they could not claim that no secrets images existed in the films at all. When this claim was brought up to Disney, the animators argued that the scene in Lion King was not intended to spell "SEX" But the abbreviated "SFX" which stood for sound effects in the animation world. Intrestingly enough many other sights in other movie like Little mermaid were found to have hidden sexual images which caused some issue and concern but was never taken into further action. A fact i found that i thought was wierd yet cool was that in many films cartoon characters that were not really intended to be in those specific films would pop up in some scenes to help animators find placement in their scenes. For example while watching a cartoon that was of Goofy (not including mickey) mickey for split seconds would appear real fast. The wierd part is that if you are so into the cartoon you would never notice that mickey popped up you would actually have slowly looked for him and paused with a remote to actually see him.

Post # 8

A few weeks ago in classs we watched Donald Duck and his cartoons that were released during and after World War II. Around that time Germanys political party consisted of the Nazi's and germany was very big on their militia and war. I remembered many of the exact cartoons that we watched in class from my childhood but this time around for some reason i paid special attention to detail. As a child, i never noticed or knew what the meaning of the Wastika(Nazi Sign) meant nor did i notice that it was so bluntly everywhere in the images that were veiwed to the public. This doesnt bother me because it doesnt affect me in any way, but i wondered after watching these cartoons if it may have made others uncomfortable in the past especially when this time era was going on. If not during, then afterwards, when all the racial hygein took place. I am taking a class called "Racial Hygein Gemany politics" and it just so happened that we are reviewing the outcome of all sciences and Eugenetics so i was just curious but most of all surprised that Disney had so many cartoons that followed what was really going on in politics at that time. So i just wanted to release how i felt and didnt know if anyone had any feedback or information about my curiosity. I would be very interested to know.....

Post #7

The movie Shrek 1 and Shrek 2 that Dreams Works created was so real looking because it was based on a layering system a new technology that aloud characters to have characteristics such as breathing, sighing, and more fluidity in their behavior throughout the movie. This system was called the PDI. Essentially the computer would attach the characters skull size and allow the developer to create actual muscles that humans use for their characters. The designed expressions can be changed by percentages so that a smile can be set for example as a smile and another could be a excited laugh. This system also allowed Shrek and his group of friends to look like they have different skin types. Shrek, the Oger seemed to have thicker skin and seemed more shielded as opposed to princess Fiona which was just a human being.
And as well, when Shrek came out it was obvious that something was different in the way the movie was delivered, that we had never been introduced to. It had real flowing movements for example in the begining of the movie if you ever watched it, Shrek takes a bath in Mud. The muds movement really looked like mud and splatted against objects sorrounding it which made it appear more realisic.This allowed it to look so similar to if we were to do it in real life. This is what this system has allowed animators to in the most recent movies that they never had done before.

I never knew that Snow white and the seven Dwarfs was the first full length animated feature of sound and color of Disney. I knew it was old because i remeber watching it many times in my childhood. But apparently this was the first succesfull film that was lead to the inovation of animation history. Disney's creation and hard effort to the making of his characters come to life in film is what made him so popular. He created a way to add great depth to his characters expressions and movements by having models such as animals or humans act scenes of the stories to get a better feel for how that specific character should move. While acting, artists would draw on boards all the scenes step by step by hand adding strong expressions to certain movements that stuck out from the rest. As you can only imagine this kind of work takes alot of patience and time. Snow white and the seven dwarfs took four years until it was released for public to see. This was the films greatest achievement and success lead us to all the newer releases of disney characters.