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patrick

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did anyone else get suckered in to seeing this one? i mean, i knew it was gonna be bad.....(its got mammoths building pyramids) but figured i might enjoy the all the prehistoric CGI animals.

now, sure so i used to be a professional film animator, so i'm pretty picky - but comeon' galloping mammoths? galloping?

had the animators of this film ever done their homework they would have known that elephants can't run, but are capable of a very fast walk.

the sabre-tooth was equally appallingly animated ("animation" is the movement only) and all the animals were rendered so poorly that they looked like they all suffered from mange and the lighting didn't match. i read on wikipedia the director cut back teh amount of fur on the creatures by 50% to save rendering time/cost so theres your answer as to why right there.

anyhow, just wanted to know if anyone else watched this abomination and notice the multitude of "airborne" stampeding mammoths.
 
i used to work at disney before they bought pixar and phased out hand-drawn animation altogether.

unfortunately the few films i worked on, like brother bear 2, all went straight to DVD...

(which wasn't surprising, since despite a-grade animation, the stories were shocking!)
 
Why don't you write and animate your own short film about zoos.
 
Some years ago I saw a "cave-man" type film called Quest For Fire. It was before all the flash special effects they have today, and so the "prehistoric" animals in the film were all modern animals made-over to look like earlier species.

The "sabre-tooth" cats were a bunch of rather placid looking lions with large plastic dentures. The "mammoths" were not too bad, actually. They were obviously Asiatic Elephants but were covered in long hair and had built-up (prosthetic) humped shoulders and skulls.

One unforgivable sin, however, was a mother and baby bear. The cub was a Brown and its "mother" was an American Black. ("What are you complaining about?" asked my wife. "No-one else would notice!")
 
a while back i started a thread just for out-of-context-animals in films. we should revive it!

unfortunately, being both opinionated, an animal fanatic, an animator, an artist, and film buff - my friends hate seeing movies with me.

i sit there and go "awwww!" and they say "what" and i respond "oh crew member in shot!" or "capuchins don't come from africa" or "that's so obviously not actually shot in texas" or "the CG dinosaur doesn't cast any shadows" or "what did that scene do for the development of the story?"....etc

ara - i will find that film. ;)
 
boof said:
Why don't you write and animate your own short film about zoos.
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because the idea is rather over represented in animation already. think "madagascar" the disney rip-off "the wild", nick park's "creature comforts"....etc.

unfortunately its become kinda stale.
 
patrick said:
because the idea is rather over represented in animation already. think "madagascar" the disney rip-off "the wild", nick park's "creature comforts"....etc.

unfortunately its become kinda stale.
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yeah. I guess you are right. how about something about penguins.:p
 
patrick said:
i used to work at disney before they bought pixar and phased out hand-drawn animation altogether.

unfortunately the few films i worked on, like brother bear 2, all went straight to DVD...

(which wasn't surprising, since despite a-grade animation, the stories were shocking!)
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We provided some of the animals for Disney's "George of the Jungle 2". Although the dollars were very nice and helped us to build this zoo, the story line was woeful, our animals were almost unrecognisable after the computer rehashed them, the Yanks were not the greatest people to work with and [thankfully] the epic went straight to DVD like Patrick's so not as many people saw it. I still cringe when the grandkids dig it out, blow the dust off it and demand to see it again!

However, we had lots more friends for as long as it was thought that we would be working with Brendan Frasier!
 
ha ha ha!
now, now steve - if you had no pride for you contribution to george of the jungle 2 - you wouldn't promote your animal "stars" on your website!!! :D

you might not have met brendan frasier, but christopher showerman...........what a talent!!!! ha ha!!
 
patrick said:
ha ha ha!
now, now steve - if you had no pride for you contribution to george of the jungle 2 - you wouldn't promote your animal "stars" on your website!!! :D

you might not have met brendan frasier, but christopher showerman...........what a talent!!!! ha ha!!
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When there is so little to brag about, I've got to flog what little I've got!

And Christopher Showerman!!!!! Wow! What? A talent????
 
i don't even know who chris showerman is - i just knew it had some other B-grade actor in it , so i googled GOTJ2 to get the name!! ;)
 
What frustrates me is why so many absolutely SUCKING films are made and good stories are dumbed down to terrible, but many good and popular books never make it into film. For example all Pratchett's Discworld (Ook!) lots of classical Cooper animal stories etc.,

I start to believe conspiracy theory about dumbing down the population... ;)
 
10,000 years B.C.

That's a bummer- I quite fancied seeing this film(for similar reasons to you) but I've gone of the idea now...:(
 
i honestly would say the animation is about the same standard as "walking with beasts". in fact, i think the smilodon in WWB was far superior in both animation and design.

i saw it with two old high-school mates who like me, had a penchant for sexy, violent, animal packed caveman books as teenagers (teenage boy heaven) and we just sat back and heckled the movie. so i actually had a good time.

but as far as movies go this film has so many mistakes its not funny.

in a couple of days the characters walk from the new zealand alps, to the thai jungles to the african savannah and then to the sahara desert!!
 
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