Toonz is a 2D animation paint / composite program. Good stuff and used it alot before moving to Retas Pro (mucho cheaper AND SoftImage was sticking a Toonz logo on all rendered materials on the educational version). It's an extremely functional, super thorough piece of code that gave me little problems less having a large learning curve.
Morale of Story, use Retas and Photoshop plug-ins:P
-f0rge He who rules the penguins, rules the world...
This Wasn't a completely CGI flick to those of you out there that have threaded such information. All characters were still done by hand, but thats irrelevent.
The movie itself was visually stunning.... at least for the first half of the movie. Pulling into the later second half (namely on New Earth and the inside Titan shots), we were showed both a lack of quality and time taken towards the development of this film. Did anyone not notice how our new earth looked like something out of Bryce? And that they were panning hand painted backgrounds in the Titan shots?
All that shows is that the studio was running out of both time and money for this movie... hell- I remember seeing a very short trailer for it in theaters two years before its release. How much production time is behind this film is unknown to me.
But even so- this movie's lack of plot, quick movement, undeveloped characters, and storybook attitude made up for a very dissapointing movie. Especially when it was intended for the teen, not 5-10 year old market. I have also come to conclusion that FOX studio's noticed this recently because it was just yesterday I saw the first cheap children's toy add on T.V. Instead of the next morning after the debut of the movie.
But all in all.. I just like to bitch about this movie... I had got my hopes up to see it (I have plans to go into 3d and or just animation as a career)... and they were crushed by the simple feeling and execution of what could have been an awesome flick. (With about 45 minutes more movie... alot of things could have been rectified).
-f0rge He who rules the penguins, rules the world...
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Toonz is a 2D animation paint / composite program. Good stuff and used it alot before moving to Retas Pro (mucho cheaper AND SoftImage was sticking a Toonz logo on all rendered materials on the educational version). It's an extremely functional, super thorough piece of code that gave me little problems less having a large learning curve.
:P
Morale of Story, use Retas and Photoshop plug-ins
-f0rge
He who rules the penguins, rules the world...
This Wasn't a completely CGI flick to those of you out there that have threaded such information. All characters were still done by hand, but thats irrelevent.
The movie itself was visually stunning.... at least for the first half of the movie. Pulling into the later second half (namely on New Earth and the inside Titan shots), we were showed both a lack of quality and time taken towards the development of this film. Did anyone not notice how our new earth looked like something out of Bryce? And that they were panning hand painted backgrounds in the Titan shots?
All that shows is that the studio was running out of both time and money for this movie... hell- I remember seeing a very short trailer for it in theaters two years before its release. How much production time is behind this film is unknown to me.
But even so- this movie's lack of plot, quick movement, undeveloped characters, and storybook attitude made up for a very dissapointing movie. Especially when it was intended for the teen, not 5-10 year old market. I have also come to conclusion that FOX studio's noticed this recently because it was just yesterday I saw the first cheap children's toy add on T.V. Instead of the next morning after the debut of the movie.
But all in all.. I just like to bitch about this movie... I had got my hopes up to see it (I have plans to go into 3d and or just animation as a career)... and they were crushed by the simple feeling and execution of what could have been an awesome flick. (With about 45 minutes more movie... alot of things could have been rectified).
-f0rge
He who rules the penguins, rules the world...