Film: February 2005 Archives
I got a chance to see this eagerly anticipated film today. After the build up that I've given myself, was it worth the wait? What did they change in the cutting room? How did the music fit in with the mood of the film? Read more only if you've seen the film, or can stand to read spoilers!
Also, check out this thread at VFXTalk to ask the compositing leads your questions about the film!
A sweet Constantine VR movie over at Meyemind. Check it out! Courtesy of the offical US Constantine website.
A whole slew of Constantine reviews have come out, some good, some bad.. Here's one from FilmForce. There's also an interview with Rachel Weisz on their front page.
Today we had our first set of dailies for our next film, Charlotte's Web. While I won't discuss what we viewed (it was mostly internal work being developed for the show), I have to say that it definitely blows previous generations of fur shading and animal animation out of the water. The shaders, painters, animators and lighters are true magicians, able to capture the subtle nuances of an animal! If you thought Ray and Carl from the Blockbuster commercials were great, wait until you see the furry critters when Charlotte's Web comes out!
The writers for this film have previous writing credits on films like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Chicken Run, James and the Giant Peach, 28 Days, Ever After, and more, so this would seem like a good sign. And of course, Danny Elfman is composing!
Yesterday I went to an advanced screening of the film Son of the Mask, which stars Jamie Kennedy of such unforgettable films like Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, and Malibu's Most Wanted. Despite some great visual effects work from certain companies, nothing else can redeem this hundred million dollar flop.
One hundred million, you say? Yes, I do say. This is a PG rated movie, and while there were several children in the audience, I don't recall any of them laughing at the right moments. Many of us cringed in agony at some of the antics on screen. Did they really expect to pull off another Mask? Leave well enough alone. Jim Carrey was good enough to pull that film out of the gutter where it could have landed.
I would definitely skip this movie. Even if you have kids, it's better to just watch reruns of Finding Nemo or A Bug's Life. Maybe they'll figure out next time that making babies dance in the most freakish way possible is not the way to get an audience into a theatre. Ugh. I would have had more fun spending 90 minutes watching grass grow.
Received this link from a co-worker, which shows the end credits for Constantine. It looks like Tippett is the lead house on the show! Quite cool! And there's me on the top of page 14!
You'll notice that the Tippett crew credits are long and extensive, while the ESC crew credits, which follows ours, are much simpler and are lumped together. It seems the rest of the companies are lumped together as well, without regard to exactly who did what. I'm not sure why this is, or even if it will appear on screen this way. Some recurring names occur between the Tippett and ESC as well!
There are nine days left until the show premieres in North America. I'm pretty sure that we'll get an advance screening, but when, I don't know.
