Michael Sporn Animation - Splog (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Michael Barrier hit on something with his reviews of Wall-E and Kung Fu Panda. I’ve been thinking about it for quite some time, but I never really plunged into the thought. Two lines of his review stood out for me: “The animation of machines is effects animation, and that’s really all we see in the first [...]
Andy's Animation (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
I just stumbled across a post on the blog of Michael Sporn , which itself was a reaction to a post on that of Michael Barrier . It seems Wall-E has churned up a bit of a storm amongst some people in the animation industry, with arguments stating that Wall-E isn't even character animation. I won't regurgitate all the details of the articles, but as usual the comparisons between traditional hand drawn...
Mayerson on Animation (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
While I'm not surprised that Michael Barrier and Michael Sporn found this summer's animated features lacking, I am surprised by some of the comments about computer animation. For instance, Barrier says this : What's clear from WALL•E and Kung Fu Panda , as never before, is that computer animation is a dead end, a form of puppetry even more limited than stop motion. There's no reason to believe that...
