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Summary: Dissappointing Animation
Review: I guess most of the collection are quite poor in the quality of animation either in the 3D model itself or the story line. A lot of the 3D animations didn't have a good control on the timing, "gravity" and "Ummph"! The story line for most of the animations also doesn't impressed me. I've seen an animation collection VHS from PIXAR 3 years ago (actually it was out 5yrs ago) and the quality is superb! This DVD is a dissappointment to me.
Rating:
Summary: Dissappointing Animation
Review: I guess most of the collection are quite poor in the quality of animation either in the 3D model itself or the story line. A lot of the 3D animations didn't have a good control on the timing, "gravity" and "Ummph"! The story line for most of the animations also doesn't impressed me. I've seen an animation collection VHS from PIXAR 3 years ago (actually it was out 5yrs ago) and the quality is superb! This DVD is a dissappointment to me.
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Summary: Dissappointing Animation
Review: It's frustrating paying $20 for a DVD only to get a bunch of lame Bryce or amateurish Lightwave animations and maybe two or three good ones, if at all. My last few CG DVD purchases were like that, and I probably would have avoided this one had not a friend called me up and told me about it! (Thanks! HH!) The quality of many of the animations on this disc are _REALLY_ good, with only a few exceptions. A couple of my personal favorites on this disc; "Michael Gagne's Prelude to Eden" is _AWESOME_! Gagne is a well-known animator (his childrens books are on Amazon) and worked on Iron Giant. If you liked the climax in Iron Giant, you'll like this one. "Light & Heavy" - another of Pixar's Luxo Jr. shorts done for Sesame Street. "Joe & Basket: Mostly Sports" - Very wacky and well-done character animation. "Dreamaker" - Very surreal animation with a nice music track. This is one of the best I've seen yet in this style. "Operating Manual for Spaceship Uterus" - Too surreal for words! Awesome! "Displaced Dice" - This is neat little animation from Mental Images (makes of the excellent MentalRay rendering software, used by Softimage and now 3D Max 3) showing off some very cool displacement mapping effects on a very simple scene. Nice music track. "Beyond the Walls" - This is a very cool "virtual band" animation produced by Animusic. This animation was actually produced in stereoscopic form to be shown at amusement parks as "Concerto in 3D!" One nice aspect with this animation is the fact that quite a bit of the animation was driven directly by the MIDI soundtrack. Animusic also did the intro animation for this DVD. "Dutch Nelson, Galaxy Guy" - A rather long comical animation done in the typically, ummmm, aesthetic-minimalistic style of Ronin Animation. What it lacks in subtlety makes up in humor, I guess... "Tinkle Terror" - Very funny and cute animation. One of the best 'student' animations I've seen.
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Summary: Excellent collection of CG short films! Recommended!
Review: It's frustrating paying $20 for a DVD only to get a bunch of lame Bryce or amateurish Lightwave animations and maybe two or three good ones, if at all. My last few CG DVD purchases were like that, and I probably would have avoided this one had not a friend called me up and told me about it! (Thanks! HH!) The quality of many of the animations on this disc are _REALLY_ good, with only a few exceptions. A couple of my personal favorites on this disc; "Michael Gagne's Prelude to Eden" is _AWESOME_! Gagne is a well-known animator (his childrens books are on Amazon) and worked on Iron Giant. If you liked the climax in Iron Giant, you'll like this one. "Light & Heavy" - another of Pixar's Luxo Jr. shorts done for Sesame Street. "Joe & Basket: Mostly Sports" - Very wacky and well-done character animation. "Dreamaker" - Very surreal animation with a nice music track. This is one of the best I've seen yet in this style. "Operating Manual for Spaceship Uterus" - Too surreal for words! Awesome! "Displaced Dice" - This is neat little animation from Mental Images (makes of the excellent MentalRay rendering software, used by Softimage and now 3D Max 3) showing off some very cool displacement mapping effects on a very simple scene. Nice music track. "Beyond the Walls" - This is a very cool "virtual band" animation produced by Animusic. This animation was actually produced in stereoscopic form to be shown at amusement parks as "Concerto in 3D!" One nice aspect with this animation is the fact that quite a bit of the animation was driven directly by the MIDI soundtrack. Animusic also did the intro animation for this DVD. "Dutch Nelson, Galaxy Guy" - A rather long comical animation done in the typically, ummmm, aesthetic-minimalistic style of Ronin Animation. What it lacks in subtlety makes up in humor, I guess... "Tinkle Terror" - Very funny and cute animation. One of the best 'student' animations I've seen.
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Summary: Good DVD for the Kids
Review: These collections of animation shorts are good for the first watch. After that the majority of them get old in a hurry. However, my kids love this DVD and I recommend it as a good kid genre video. Although the kids don't like this one as much as the newest Odessey DVD "Computer Animation Marvels". I love the Pixar short with the kid and adult lamps interacting. I wish Pixar would put out a full feature length DVD with just these lamp characters.
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