Bambi and Miyazaki

The  famous clip of Pixar lamp, a simple and incredible piece of digital art, still communicates a lot of power to audience.  

However, why lecturers are so obsessed with Disney Pixar, sometimes people think it is the only big company of digital animation, what about Dreamworks, Weta Workshop, etc.  It seems we still live like 60 or 70 years ago when it was Disney and nothing else.

We watched a clip of a bee considered one of the first animation clips in 3D, Bill highlighted the motion blur system and the particle system of this first attempts.  Logically use of polygons was quite basic.

But the most interesting and important think of the lecture was the Bambi and Miyazaki works. The thing which shocked me was that Bambi’s scene with Thumper was considered a homosexual complot.  There are thousands of conspiracies against Disney in this fact, most of them related with sex. Bambi, surprisingly I haven’t seen the full movie yet, is a fantastic piece of art, the rhythm of the movie fly, like editing the animation tools in Maya

Miyazaki’s work is not as speediest as Western animation but is more deep, he just need a few words to communicate a lot of information to the audience.  

Animation

In this lesson Bill was ready to avoid any technical problems like the past two weeks; he even spent a significant quantity of money to improve the quality of the videos.

 First of all, we watched a homage clip to the first cartoon ever created “The Fantasmagoric”. The clip was basically a mirror between the old version and the modern created in 3D software.  Usually the older versions have more value but not always.

Then we watched the initial version of snowhite, quite different from the classical from Disney, Bill remind us that in the past decades any kind of animation was related with Disney, he emphasises a lot this aspect.  And know everybody talks about Pixar, any change?

The next clip was about Chuck Jones cartoons, and I watched with a bit nostalgia because I used to watch this cartoons some years ago with my sister, anyway, the clip was a tribute of Duffy Duck to animators. Looney Tunes characters are symbols of one quality, some are winners (Bugs Bunny, Roadrunner...) while others are losers (Duffy Duck, Coyote, Sylvester...), and actually there is not a middle character in this saga. This is a fact which was always in front of me and I knew a couple of days ago.

The last one, and the most boring (I’m not the only one who considered this) was a clip called “The street of crocodiles”, I still cannot find the sense in this clip.