Meet the Robinsons is a computer-animated science fiction Disney comedy. It's a family-friendly movie about an orphan who finds his home and family in the future. It is very loosely based off a book by William Joyce called A Day with Wilbur Robinson. It probably still is one of my favourite movies because it's just heart-warming and well done. It sends a positive message to "keep moving forward." The animation is fun and vibrant and the scenes in the future are quirky and white-based as most futuristic things, making the future look like a pretty fun place in general. It has everything from robots to dinosaurs to singing frogs. Its's a very cute movie and I'd recommend watching it.
I am a huge fan of traditional 2D animation. I love how ridiculously expressive you can make the characters, and I love how you don't need to depend on the physics of the real world to make your cartoon enjoyable. When I see films like Disney's frozen I ask myself the question of "Why did this need to be animated" or rather "What is animation adding to this story". And to be frank I don't know that I've found an answer aside from the fact that having 3D models of every character comes in real handy when rolling out lines of action figures and other such merch.
It's not that I don't like 3D animation in general. I just feel that it can get so close to the look of the real world that any abstraction would severely disturb the audience watching.
Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs was a 3D animated film produced by Sony Studios that I feel captures some of the very best that 2D and 3D animation have to offer. Take a look at the clip below:
While the look of the film is undoubtedly 3D, it really does feel like you're watching 2D cartoon. The characters move erratically and emote expressively, you can see during periods of fast movement that someone has actually gone in and drawn smears and multiples into the 3D frame, and whatsmroe is that it never takes itself too seriously.
Like I said before, I don't have a problem with 3D animation as a medium, but I'd love to see it used to it's full potential.
I'm a big fan of Pixar animations, so I got very excited when I found out that there was going to be a new movie coming out Spring of 2015. The movie is called "Inside Out" and it tells the tale of an 11 year old girl and her emotions. Of course there is much more to it because the emotions are the focus of the movie. It goes inside the mind of the girl into her emotion headquarters and each emotion is a character in the movie. It features the voices of a bunch of my favorite actors including Amy Poehler, who voices the emotion joy, Mindy Kaling, who is disgust, and Bill Hader, who voices fear.
I find this concept to be incredibly creative because Pixar, in my opinion, has mastered the art of manipulating emotions. I can't remember a time that one of their movies hasn't made me tear up or feel sympathetic to a character, even if the character was just a fish or a bug. I can't wait to see this film, but in the meantime I think I can get by with the trailer (which just released today!!!).
