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[tealin]

I am in love with animation again.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/corpse_bride/

Actual animation, not the genre... I've always liked the genre and still do, but actual animation love comes and goes.

9:15 pm
I forgot to say: they liked my ship!!

And, for some reason, that trailer has taken to restarting my computer. Grr.

Oh yeah, I was a bit ambiguous above: I love animation all the time. it's just ... the giddy feeling of seeing really really good animation, and being struck by some odd sort of geeky hormone rush, is an infrequent experience.

Comments

One wedding, two brides

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, just like Utah! It looks fantastic, just as one would expect from Mr. Burton.

Better than James and the Giant Peach? Likely.
Better then Nightmare Before Christmas? Possibly.
Better than 99% of the movies out there? Certainly.

[lix-tetrax.livejournal.com]

Oo-de-lally! I can't wait for this movie :)

[bananabasket.livejournal.com]

I have watched this preview now more than thirty times and it still makes me SO GIDDY. I've been thinking about it since yesterday over and over and over...

The shot where she rises out of the gorund? *sighs*

And the animation in general. Stop-motion RULES.

Bride

[(Anonymous)]

WOW! Is there anything that the mighty Tim Burton can not do. Also his ideas are so unique. I watched the trailer over and over again...that was until my mom told me to do dishes.

[octaveleap.livejournal.com]

This trailer got me excited too, not only for the Burtonesque stopmotion funfullness, but because I ACTUALLY KNOW THE STORY! In the book "Women who Run with the Wolves" (a collection of stories), there's a tribal folktale about a young groom who sings a wedding chant after jokingly putting his bride's ring on a peculiar branch jutting out of the ground... which of course turns out to be the fingerbone of a young woman who died sometime around her wedding... and the chant brings her back to life. Wee! And they're making it a Western version... man, those fairytales and folktales never die! *goes to re-read that story*

And of COURSE they liked your ship. Now the question is, what do i have to watch to see it?

[bananabasket.livejournal.com]

Hey, Twirlynoodle, you're the animaiton expert. Is there anyway that this movie could be CGI? It looks like stop-motion, but I'm watched it like 30 times now, and it's practically flawless, but somethings move suspiciously like stop-motion, while others are far too smooth and... *sigh*. Maybe they used to CGI and just tried to make it look like stop-motion. I so cannot wait for this movie.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Hey bananabasket, any chance I could replace all those long story posts with a link to your journal page where you have it all written out in one piece? Only... it's kind of long...

As for CG, I'm sure they used some tricks, like motion blur and whatnot, but I'm sure it's predominantly stop-motion. Which is also 3D. More 3D than actual "3D."

[bananabasket.livejournal.com]

I am very sorry. I didn't realize how long it was until it was on the page and everything was bad. I was planning on deleting them but when I was trying to figure out how I had to go right away. I'll fix them.

Next time I'll link my Russian ghost story things.

[bananabasket.livejournal.com]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/bananabasket/

Here's the link to the story.

I wasn't sure how to edit, so I just deleted them.

[octaveleap.livejournal.com]

Oo! You have the story! AWESOME!!!

[ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com]

THEY liked the SHIP! What'd they think of the Nragon? Er! I mean.. "Dragon"? Well, gee, I'm glad they liked your ship - it's not as if you spend hours of free time actually obsessively sketching them out on bits of foolscap, napkins and people, huh?

That little skinny dude is particularly lovable. I swear, it's very Dirgesque... it's a crime that you've not read any of his Lenore comics.