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New Wallace and Gromit Episodes Coming Online
chachi5000 noted that
CNN is running a story about
Aardman releasing
Wallace and Gromit Shorts Online.
There will be a dozen of the one minute clips featuring the awesome
plasticine duo. Also bits about the feature film coming in (sigh) a few years.
Anyone who hasn't seen the existing Wallace and Gromit trilogy is
missing out.
Cracking good cheese, Gromit!
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Ain't it Cool News had a story on this earlier. Looks like the title will be The Great Vegetable Plot and the director is shooting for a release 2 years from now. Here's to hoping it turns out better than Chicken Run, which just rubbed me the wrong way for some reason. *shrug*. I just can't make myself care about the well-being of chickens, which are so darn tasty. ;)
---- El diablo esta en mis pantalones! Mire, mire!
One thing I love about the Wallace and Gromit shorts is their attention to detail. Every scene has interesting little bits in the background -- stuff going on that you might catch on the fourth or fifth viewing. I'm afraid that in stretching things to a full-length feature, some of this will be lost. Chicken Run, while fun enough, disappointed me for exactly this reason. It was kinda funny, and had some amusing references to other movies -- and certainly they put a lot of work into it -- but it just doesn't have the *depth* that Wallace and Gromit do. I hope Nick Park will prove my fears unfounded.
Read the article and enjoyed. Will be funnier than anything to see the inventions.
:-) You gotta love the protection it provides. :-)
As I read the last part:
"Park has now expanded the idea to make them into mini-movies where Gromit demonstrates the innovations, which include a high-powered cricket ball bowling gun and a toaster-cum-TV."
I had an idea. I ran to my daughter's room where her PC is protected by Net Nanny and put the url in. No go
it's not like there's any advantage of making everything out of plastercine!
Apparently there is some advantage, otherwise Nick Park wouldn't spend so much time working in plastercine.
I've seen "Wrong Trousers", I've seen "Final Fantasy". Both were created from a different medium (stop animation vs computer graphics). Both movies are great examples of what can be done with the medium.
But Wrong Trousers had a depth to the animation-- There were things going on in the background... the expression on the characters faces... the Pengiun was evil, and you knew it. My 2 year old Nephew knew it.
Final Fantasy was a fun and groundbreaking movie, but it lacked detail. Yes, their hair moved realistically, but the characters were cold, their expressions were hard to read, the background scenes were cluttered and hard to make out. The only reason I could tell that there was any attraction between the lead women & lead man was because of the dialogue. If the mute was on, I couldn't tell you *what* was going on. Not so with the Wallace & Gromit movies...
Comparing those two movies, I would say that there isn't much advantage to using computer animation over plastercine ! (not yet, anyways).
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
"The Great Vegetable Plot" :-)
Would Americans get it? They have vegetable patches and Great Schemes.
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
For all ye to know cum is latin for "with."
This could then translate as "toaster with TV," and all the sexually active minds would stop.
What a notion!
Da comp cant tell u da emotional story.It can give u da exact mathematical design,but whatz missin is da eyebrows. -FZ
"I mean, humour is humour"
I think that's the problem right there. In America, humour is humor.