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My Mum and I on Sunday saw The Wild Robot: ๐โค๏ธ๐๏ธ- I remember hearing A LOT about the ambitious painterly look for the CG-animated film ๐๐๏ธ - especially the skies and landscapes remind me a lot of seeing paintings from JMW Turner and John Constable (e.g. Tate Britain ๐โค๏ธ)!- What looks like the northwest coast of North America reminds me why I love going to the Eden Project in Cornwall, where you get to explore two immersive biomes - one Rainforest and one Mediterranean/Mexican! ๐ด๐ต- There are virtually no humans in this story - and on a smaller scale! ๐ I love that it's not about huge crowds of people or entire cities, like you see in some other animated films! ๐๏ธ Animals can be such EXCITING allegories for humans like the possum family and the geese! ๐ชฟ- From the beginning, I just LOVED the concept of being raised by animals (like Mowgli and Tarzan!) - that eventually only Roz can understand what they're speaking! ๐โค๏ธ- The U age rating fascinates me, because you CAN show emotional and even important messaging whilst still making it appropriate for all ages (I personally wonder when is the earliest age to start discovering feature-length films in the cinema! ๐๐ฆ)! I've said before that there's less financial risk when you make something for ALL AGES, compared with just for ADULTS (like constructing a new transport hub ๐๏ธ๐)!- I love learning the idea that Roz's voice (Lupita Nyong'o) gradually becomes less programmed over time! ๐ My Mum recently told me she is relieved that posters for animated films no longer push HARD the celebrity voiceovers like they did 20 years ago (e.g. Shrek and Kung Fu Panda - often were written WITH that actor in mind)! ๐โค๏ธ๐๏ธJohn Constable (1776-1837, UK) - Rainstorm over the Sea (c.1824-28) ๐ผ๏ธโฌ๏ธ
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I've heard about this half-hour short that's currently in development, and I even remember first hearing about this at the Cartoon Forum pitching event! ๐โค๏ธ๐๐บ I'm LOVING the visual style - looks like an exciting mix of Cartoon Saloon (Irish folklore trilogy) and Craig McCracken (The Powerpuff Girls; Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends)! ๐โค๏ธThe animatic does take me back to being a kid, because my Dad, who worked in the sound engineering side of cartoons for many years, would bring me into the London recording studio to watch the voice actors perform their lines to storyboards! Also, he would give me the pitch bibles of the cartoons he was helping to work on, and it was EXCITING to be exposed to all of that at a very young age! ๐โค๏ธ๐๏ธ๐๏ธ#animation #France #Belgium #characterdesign #pitching #animatic #teaser
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