RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] saturday morning cartoons are evil

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> > The shows I hate the worst (from the perspective of trying to enjoy
> > them with your kids) are ones that leave either the parents or the
> > kids completely stranded.  The best ones are shows that can maintain
> > interest for everybody *for extended periods of time*.  All of the
> > Pixar stuff has done that.

IMO Antz wasn't really intended for children. Cartoons can be intended for
adults. I'd think twice before letting a kid watch Southpark: Bigger,
Longer, and Uncut and possibly before letting them watch Antz.

> Monsters, Inc., is out now.  I went with my 9-year-old son.  We both liked
> it.  Good story, well-written and coherent, good voices (John Goodman and
> Billy Crystal) and excellent animation (as always).

That looks good. Are the special effects worth spending the money to see
on the big screen or okay to wait for DVD? I think the Harry Potter movie
will be worth seeing on the big screen so I'm going to go see that.. after
I give it a week or two so I'm not fighting 600 kids in line.

> On the animation front, Pixar has gotten really good with fur and hair --
> that stuff is very hard to animate.  I'll bet one reason the first
> feature-length fully-computer-animated film was about toys (Toy Story) was
> that toys are pretty easy to render.  They have lots of shiny smooth
> plastic.  Things like fur and hair a lot trickier.

The trailers look good. Doubtless that movies such as Phantom Menace and
The Spirits Within have helped push such technology forward. I think the
part of TS that bothered me the most was that people looked so much like
their toys. I did notice some improvement in TS2 but it was mostly in
closeups. Overall I think they tried not to change the look of the people
to much. What will be really impressive is when they can realisticly
render fur/hair in realtime. I can't wait for that effect in Final
Fantasy. :)

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