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Image description: Close up of artist Jorja Smith on stage The coronavirus pandemic has imposed restrictions on almost every part of our lives, music videos have been no different. Artists’ responses to the problems caused by coronavirus have been as diverse as the genres they occupy. The results have also varied massively, some are gorgeous, […]
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Image Description: A illustration of a scene from Mulan Oh, glorious CGI! We are a slave to your technicolour dreamscapes, your larger-than-life monsters. It seems remarkable to me to re-watch the first Harry Potter film and realise that I am expected to be gripped by terror, watching that magnificent blue troll before me. It looks, […]
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Image description: The cast of the Cats musical on Broadway Hollywood’s recent obsession with CGI felines has me concerned. What with Disney’s entirely CGI realised remake of The Lion King, and Universal‘s first look at the rather disturbingly rendered humanoid cats of Cats (2019), they’re everywhere and they’re causing consternation amongst film fans, especially myself. […]
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Loving Vincent is the world’s first fully painted feature film. Under the direction of husband-and-wife duo Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, 125 artists worked for six years to produce this animated biographical film about the life and mysterious death of Vincent van Gogh, primarily in the unique and instantly-recognisable painting style of the artist himself. […]
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When it comes to TV, I’m not a particularly emotional person. I’m not saying I don’t appreciate a show with emotional depth or enjoy a moving moment, but I’m never the sort to cry at stuff on screen. So it was quite surprising to me the other day that, upon reaching the series finale of […]
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Against CGI – Felix Grainger When I first saw the Thing (1982) it blew my mind. I was only 13 and was never a fan of ‘older’ horror movies due to them often being cheesy and not scary enough for my adrenaline seeking younger self. This was different. The effects were incredible, gory, slimy, plastic […]
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Fantasia. It’s the movie snob’s Disney film of choice, featuring some of the most imaginative and gorgeous animation the studio’s ever produced, set to beautiful classical music. It’s iconic, artistic and groundbreaking in demonstrating the scope of what animation could do and the potential of Disney as a film studio. For me? It taught me […]
Continue ReadingThe release of the long-awaited Monsters, Inc prequel, Monster’s University, reveals just how much CGI animation has grown over the past decade. Back in 2001, when Pixar released the original Monsters Inc, the mere sight of Sulley’s hair represented a revolution in technology. Now, having witnessed virtual hairstyles as luxurious as Aslan’s mane in Narnia […]
Continue ReadingThe idea behind Frankenweenie was born in the early ‘80s, when Tim Burton was a humble Disney animator, somewhat out of place working on projects such as The Fox and the Hound and The Black Cauldron. A little confused about what to do with the scruffy-haired muse, Disney commissioned two short films that he promptly […]
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