Anatomy Skating Commercial Presentation...

I've been looking into anatomical CG and composites for ideas for the design and structure of my own animation. Here i have found a really well designed and composited advert which uses anatomical processes to advertise a skate. They used a combination of Maya and After Effects to produce this commercial and it's really interesting to hear the guy talk about the pioeline for the final product, which is very similar to what we are expected to do. I would definitely like to go for something layered like this because it has a great visual aesthetic and if i was to aim my final product at students, i think it cxould look very professional and stylised.

Fantastic Voyage Review...

Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer, based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby.

The plot follows a crew that have been reduced in a submarine to one micrometer in length, so they can travel to a comatosed scientist's brain and remove a clot. However, the crew only has one hour to do so before their grow back to their normal size, as the film becomes a constant race against time, the team must face many obstacles to complete their mission.

Fantastic Voyage was a great insight into how we could go about this project, and despite the fact it's over 40 years old, it is always good to see different examples during the research process before i begin to develop my own animation. The film was slightly comparable to a disaster movie, in a way that everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong. For me, this detured away from the hard work gone into the production design as i felt the storyline was way too extreme, it became completely unbelieveable. However, the build up to the story was well done, and i particularly liked a lot of the scenes in the HQ at the beginning, with the machines and technology which was very well designed. As you would expect from this period though, the compositing and green screening was pretty bad and at one point they actually managed to take a chunk out of an actors face.

This film also inspired Salvador Dali to produce a painting of the same name.

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2009 - Avatar...

Avatar is a 2009 science fiction film directed by James Cameron. It the most recent example of how technology has developed in the industry, making groundbreaking changes. It's already broken box office records and well deserves its place in the timeline, if not for its storyline, then for its amazing visual aesthetics.

1995 - Toy Story...

Pixar is an American CGI animation production company based in California and founded in 1986. To date, the studio has earned twenty-four Academy Awards, six Golden Globes, and three Grammys, among many other awards, acknowledgments and achievements. It is best known for its CGI-animated feature films, becoming one of the most critically acclaimed film studios of all time. Pixar started in 1979 as the Graphics Group, a part of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm before it was bought by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 1986. The Walt Disney Company bought Pixar in 2006. The company has made 10 features films since its formation, including Finding Nemo, Toy Story, Monsters Inc., and more recently Up, among many others. Executives John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich have all gained recognition for their achievements, receiving a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.