My kingdom for an Avid suite!

[tealin]

So Osmosis Jones was on TV tonight ...

You know, I still stand by it: there is a good movie in there. If someone who knew what they were doing spent some quality time editing it, and maybe threw in a few extra interior scenes to make up for plot points lost when all the totally crap exterior scenes were flushed down the toilet as they should have been a long time ago, you could really get something worth watching out of it.

[sigh]

Besides, what better example of showing off what 2D is really good for? Squishy, stretchy, wicked cool designy stuff, that's what.

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Comments

[nae-trews.livejournal.com]

Ah, we had to sit through that in biology a few years ago as a treat. However, there really was some nifty animation going on in Osmosis Jones that made my heart sing ... or so I remember. I was surrounded by friends who were hellbent on hating the whole thing, so I tried to glean something enjoyable from it. But I'm the girl who goes through The Hunchback of Notre Dame frame-by-frame for the OMGDIDYOUSEETHATONESHOT<3JAYSUSJAMESBAXTERILOOOVEDEDYOUUU! spirit of it all ... so yeah. >_>

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

[gasp]

Someone else out there appreciates the magnificence of James Baxter? HUZZAH!

[nae-trews.livejournal.com]

James Baxter, Glen Keane, Mike Surrey, Andreas Deja (the list goes on ... ) and all their contemporaries and all that jazz. My friends admire movie stars, I get ape poopy over Disney feature animators. And anyone who has ever worked on a Brad Bird project. And Studio Ghibli members. C'est la vie!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Wow! I thought I was the only one! I work in an animation studio and most of my colleagues don't know these people – sometimes I think I'm the most obsessed person here!

[nae-trews.livejournal.com]

Lucky, talented duck - I wish I were talented enough for a job like that, but I'm peddling my wares to the art history major instead - yay for studio art minoring!

But you aren't alone - if it makes you feel any better, my best friend, who lives about three hours away in New York City, and I have get-togethers in which we watch nothing but animated films - and it is a ritual of geeky proportions that the majority of the living population has never witnessed including that one time we accidentally ended up renting The Hunchback of Notre Dame 2 (AUGH) and proceeded to make it watchable with help from a bottle of rum. And we fangirl animators. Oh yes. She's a good friend to have, because the majority of my friends in this stinkpot known as Delaware just could care less about animation.

I am the queen of going off tangents. >_>