My Say On Animation

After watching Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist, I realized some animation artists have gone too far with emulating real-life. We're calling movies like Finding Nemo, Wall-E and Up gorgeous animation, but we have forgotten the majesty of 2D hand-drawn animation. Animation is not supposed to make things look like real-life. It's an artist canvas and there's a different style to how they want viewers to view their work. I propose for more hand-drawn animation in the future.

Well, the movie has a very basic plot. It's about this magician who is stuck in a phase of change in an era where magicians are of a dying breed of entertainers. Rock bands emerge and these old-timers go out of jobs. Thankfully, there is still one who enjoys a trick or two and she follows the magician on an adventure to find his new place in the world.



I like this movie quite a lot. Though it's depressing but I'm in love with the quirky characters and colour palette chosen for this movie.

P.S. I've been wanting to blog about this. It only recently dawned on me that I had this in my mind to say...

Sharing Things

Was just looking around YouTube for videos to watch. The Oxford Comma video has a certain Wes Anderson feel to it and A-Punk has a kick-ass psychedelic chorus.

2 More Days

2 more days and I believe my life is going to be more hectic than I ever think it will be. Internship is starting soon and I went swimming just yesterday, only to have my back sunburnt. Should have put more sun tan lotion, I guess.

Found out that my arm is suffering from an old injury I didn't even know until now. Shouldn't have came to me like a surprise because my shoulder has a crack sound consistently whenever I do strenuous exercises and it hurts quite a lot.

I also had a wonderful dinner with two great friends as a mini-celebration for a video and besides, I owe N. Without her effort and input, this video wouldn't be possible or quite easy to come together. So this dinner was a form of a "Thank you" to her. We spent the night at Swensons' listening to my best mate story about his story about a crush he recently has. But the whole conversation was highly amusing with N and me, mostly me, disturbing him. I have to say this but he reminds me of my own experience.

Enough of that...

So, Stop.

Just hung out with my secondary school percussion members and alumni. It was those rare occasions that you never see alumni and members going out for an outing. Thanks to Wei Jie and Cheryl for the Pizza Hut treat.

I don't know what else to say already...