VM page...*shock* 40!
Yeahhh... I have actually done 40 pages of something. Ha! And it is still surviving, and I'm still enjoying drawing it, so yay!
So new Voyage Moyen update today, Nate gets a little more beat up, and we learn the archer's name, and yeahhhh. There you go. I think if I spread working on the page over several days, it allows me to keep it cleaner and more sharp. It's when I rush that things start to get messy (in my eyes), and I get more frustrated with it.
Having a Wednesday update day makes it much better. When I first was on Sundays, I wasn't thinking that I had to get it all done by Saturday night. So now, I have the entire weekend to work on pages, and that makes things a lot smoother.
*Totally random*, but I saw Van Helsing on tv the other night, and I kept thinking "how did this horrible, horrible movie get made?". Even worse, why the heck did I fork out $10 to see it in the theatres? It is so bad. I mean, SO BAD. Unfortunately, it doesn't fall into the so bad it's funny category like... The Order. Remember that movie? With Heath Ledger? That movie was so bad, that when everyone was walking out, people were seriously pissed that they had paid money to see it. I couldn't stop laughing the whole way through. I love those so bad they're funny movies. At least it makes paying admission bearable.
And what in the world is going on with animated movies? I saw a preview for the movie "Surf's Up", and here are my questions...
1. How many penguin movies or zoo animal movies does this world need?
2. Is it appropriate to use the insult "peckerhead" when referring to another bird? I was pretty surprised by that.
3. Does evey animated movie need music from the 60's and 70's to make it relevant to adults to take their children to it? (Yes, I'm thinking you-Shrek.)
4. Why the heck would animated movies have Soprano or Godfather references? Like, what?! Mobsters?
5. Okay, again, why in the WORLD does every new movie need some sort of "extreme" sport reference? (Yes-I'm thinking you Treasure Planet with your skyboarding, and Tarzan with the tree surfing, and penguins surfing and AHH!) WHYYYY?!!!
As long as I don't have to see another barnyard animal movie with bulls with udders (not cows, but bulls), shooting milk out of them as a weapon or something, I may be able to save a few brain cells.
posted by Michelle Mauk at
10:19 PM
2 Comments:
To answer your questions,
1. 2,543.6
2. Seems to be a pretty acceptable term to me as some birds have bills and some have peckers.
3. At least it's not music from the 90's.
4. Rewatch Bugs Bunny and other early cartoons. Mobsters have always been funny.
5. I seriously doubt tobogganing on their bellies would make a dramatic story arc. It's the product placement that always gets me.
Actually, my biggest problem with animated movies is the thought process that traditional paint is out and computer animation is all that matters.
Good scripts will work no matter what style they are animated in.
That's great! I forgot about the product placement. That's right. I know Disney is working on a new animated movie that is traditional paint, as is Studio Ghibli, so I sincerely hope that traditional animation is not dead or "dying". I think with computer animation they were going for the "wow" factor, and people still look rather robotic and soulless in computer animation (hence the proliferation of animal animation movies.) Like anything else, the oversaturation of computer animated movies is killing that "wow" factor, as well as putting out a bunch of generic movies. What? No music from the 90s? How about a kiss scene to Wilson Phillips or Nelson? Yeah. I still think we don't need more penguin or zoo animal movies. Plus, I think the Godfather shtick has been done to death, don't you think?
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