I am going to start a new blog for a course that I am starting at the moment, it shall be a weekly thing. The Rykin story has not went far, the holiday break was a nice relaxing time without the worry of assignments or work. I have no idea what I have stated in older posts if I have been working on a new story, if not this is what it is soo far.
A book is stolen from a castle by the ice King who lives in his ice palace far far away. The book is the book of happiness, and parts of his castle always gets blown up from the little ice soldiers that live there, they fight each other and everything. The Ice king has had enough and decided to steal the book, and place it in his castle; this changing the soldiers and they start to repair the castle. The other castle wants the book back as they are now all sad, so their get their best knight to get the book back.
The rest still needs to be touched up, and the story needs to be adjusted a lot to make it more interesting.
I am going to add another post up tonight about stuff I observed while traveling to UNI and back today.
Joshua - out, until next post.
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Monday, 27 May 2013
New post- update on the script and other stuff.
Hey hey hey.... The last post of mine was probably 6/7 weeks ago, that was a long time again. Just Uni assignments became more interesting. So, The Rykin story is on complete.. YAY!!! The beast no longer follows Rykin out of the cave, instead he just rams Rykin in the back and the egg falls out of his hands and rolls out of the cave and down the forest with Rykin close behind. The beast just goes to the edge of his cave and returns back to his life.
I am pretty sure there is a version of the script on here in one of the posts, and have drawn up some quick ideas, really rough just to get an idea of the locations. They look pretty kool for the amount of time spent on them. Hopefully shall have them up here is due time, when I get some time to upload them.
Just on a good note. I love Doctor Who. So, the last few episodes that have been on, not sure on what series it is anymore as they do the split series and 6 eps at the start/ mid year and another 6/7 eps somewhere else in the year. If you have not seen Dr Who, find a friend that has it and watch it!! (it has been awesome that last couple of eps). They have brought back some old enemies, not going to name them but the Cyberman, they got an upgrade and look kool.
Dr who does the next time thing, which if you have not read my previous post on "NEXT TIME", i absolutely hate it, it gives way to much info about it. and movie trailers... they do the same.. So What i do know is not watch them. Back to the Dr Who, When the episode was just finished and starts the "Next time" I was no long in a 5 meter radius of the TV. I was gone.... Each week I had no idea what the next ep was going to be about, and in my conclusion........(Drum roll) It was AWESOME!!! Yes, not knowing what was going to happen or what monsters/ creatures/ villains just made it 10 times better to watch. And I shall continue to do this for each new ep of Dr Who.
In the end, I shall get some more stories up. Slowly concepting a new idea that I shall add up here, might just place random ideas, might/ might not make seance, but oh well.
Joshua - Out.
I am pretty sure there is a version of the script on here in one of the posts, and have drawn up some quick ideas, really rough just to get an idea of the locations. They look pretty kool for the amount of time spent on them. Hopefully shall have them up here is due time, when I get some time to upload them.
Just on a good note. I love Doctor Who. So, the last few episodes that have been on, not sure on what series it is anymore as they do the split series and 6 eps at the start/ mid year and another 6/7 eps somewhere else in the year. If you have not seen Dr Who, find a friend that has it and watch it!! (it has been awesome that last couple of eps). They have brought back some old enemies, not going to name them but the Cyberman, they got an upgrade and look kool.
Dr who does the next time thing, which if you have not read my previous post on "NEXT TIME", i absolutely hate it, it gives way to much info about it. and movie trailers... they do the same.. So What i do know is not watch them. Back to the Dr Who, When the episode was just finished and starts the "Next time" I was no long in a 5 meter radius of the TV. I was gone.... Each week I had no idea what the next ep was going to be about, and in my conclusion........(Drum roll) It was AWESOME!!! Yes, not knowing what was going to happen or what monsters/ creatures/ villains just made it 10 times better to watch. And I shall continue to do this for each new ep of Dr Who.
In the end, I shall get some more stories up. Slowly concepting a new idea that I shall add up here, might just place random ideas, might/ might not make seance, but oh well.
Joshua - Out.
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Clay Project
I stated in one of the posts from early this week about a clay sculpture I am going to make. These 4 images are the 4 half finished sketches will be what it is going to be based of. I shall be placing up progress images of different stages I as I go along.
Images are just from a basic phone camera, as these are sketches that have been done on trains, and needed the quick reference.
- Joshua
Images are just from a basic phone camera, as these are sketches that have been done on trains, and needed the quick reference.
- Joshua
Monday, 22 April 2013
Dedicated to my High School art teacher
This post goes out to my old high school art teacher. I am not going to say the persons as I have that respect for you.
I had this teacher for grade 9, and than grade 11 and 12. This post shall be about grade 11, and grade 12. Grade 11, the second last year of my high school years. So, each semester we had to complete 1 major artwork and 1 essay. I would say about 15 people in the class, So there where the DH's, these guys would never shut up and would annoy everyone. Then you have the ones that also never shut up, they just talked about what they did over the weekend and their favorite actor and movie was. And than you had the ones that did work ever lesson and not much talking, which I was in.
So, the teacher did not give a stuff and the DH's not doing work, they just sat there being a pain to every one in the class. And on of the guys in there would make lies up to get his own way. So the teacher just sat there for 3 lessons a week and would do nothing, or would go the the gossip people and talk with them.
So, would draw every lesson, or work on my assignment. So the first assignment I completed was a series of drawings/ or a painting. I can not remember which was the first one, but in my eyes the work I completed had meaning to me and a good look from anyone else, they would be able to work a meaning out of it. So I complete that and the essay. and the mark I get back is a "C". Now, so it's now the second semester and I completed the other work and I cut up an image, placed it in a baking tray back in its original shape and filled the tray with water, and freezed it for a good week. took it outside and dropped it, and handed a filmed copy of the drop in as well. I believe it was the painting this time. and another essay to complete for the end of year 11. I do both works and get another "C".
Now, what pisses me off, is I do the work, and get a crap mark. Other people handed the assignment in weeks to months later, or did NOT complete the essay and they get a "B" or an "A". no dedication on the mark for being late by months or anything. I am handing all of my assignments on time and just scraping the "C" for the first year. And in that whole year, guess how much we learnt...... NOTHING!!! Where is your teaching skills, or did you leave them at your house each morning.
That was the first year. The second year, I thought, the bigger the better. More marks of course.... Same rules where you needed to complete an essay, 3 sets of artworks. and 1 video thing of yourself. First semester I come up with a good idea, Have a Knight walking through a mirror. Since the idea was insane at the time, and purchasing all the materials I needed was going to cost quite a bit, I want for the custom approach. So I used wall skirting as the frame, and I believe some industrial material for the mirror part. Since it was an art class, I got some 2 dollar foam/ vinyl to make the helmet, hands and foot. So I made a wire mesh of the hand, foot and the helmet, covered it up with the material. Painted it and handed that in along with the essay when it was due. And the mark I got reflected my creativity. "C"
And there where the people handing assignments in late and not working in class. I'm pretty sure that one of the requirements for the class was to work on your assignment in class. I got pulled up for the mirror idea because I was working at home, and could only take it in once a week to show the teacher, but no. I needed to work on it at school. This was about 2 metres tall so, leaving it at school was a no go as junior students would steal all of your work, and the teacher didn't like to give back your work after it had been marked.
So, next assignment comes up and I decide to do a digital image of an eye on Photoshop with Photoshoped glass infront and behind the eye. It turned out pretty sweet. Went and got it printed on a board, it was not cheap and hand that in, it was in a plastic sleeve to protect it from scratches. Did the assignment and handed this in the day it was due, as the printing take some days. Handed it in and got yet another "C". I got the art work back and no plastic sleeve, just sitting on a shelf with other art works on top of it. Nice way to respect other peoples artwork. How would you like me placing some on some of your artwork that can destroy it. RESPECT THE ARTWORK!!!
So, it comes done to the last piece of artwork for year 12. So I thought, why not do another digital image of all of the works I have completed and some that where in my artwork and make a nice collage of work. This image was of shattered glass with the artworks on the different pieces of the glass. So this turned out quite good as well, It was only A4 this one and in a nice frame. Hand this in, I do the video and hand it all in. This assignment get me......Drum roll.......................... You guessed it. A "C"
So, that part that pissed me off even more was that in the tow years of completing art, all we had learnt was the teacher was always late for the morning class we had. Did not give a damn about the DH's in the class, and would gossip with the gossip group for most of the lessons. And give people good marks for not handing in assignments fully completed. Not completing it on time and handing it in months later, and they got "B's" and "A's".
2 years, you think you would have learnt something, even how to draw a circle or something basic. Nothing was shown. I would have learnt with a monkey teaching me how to peal a banana. Or watching paint dry. I handed in all of my assignments on time, and All I got was a "C". nothing more or nothing less. just a "C". and other people got a "B" or an "A" for not doing the work. If I did not do the work, I would have gotten a "D" or an "E".
What was this teacher doing. Getting money just to gossip to students about their daily lives and what they are going to do over the weekend. Your a teacher, not a student. Teach something, and do not suck up to the other teachers when they walked into the class room.
So, What pissed me off the most, I went to collect the work I had handed in, the collage artwork for the last assignment. This was the remark I got:
"I little more work and it would have been complete".
You do not say that to me when you did not teach me anything in 2 years, let alone the first year I had you in year 9. And You Say that to my face. I give you guts for saying that to me, but when Other students did not complete the their work. And in my eyes it was Finished.
So, I start Uni in February the next year for the Animation course I am completing and the first mark I get back from the art teacher I had was a distinction for my drawings. Really, I was shocked from this mark, I am pretty sure I did not go under the Distinction mark for any of the uni assignments I had with this teacher.
Thank you art teacher from High school for saying I can NOT get anything greater than a "C" for my artwork for 2 years.
I do not even think I should sign this one with my name at the end.
I had this teacher for grade 9, and than grade 11 and 12. This post shall be about grade 11, and grade 12. Grade 11, the second last year of my high school years. So, each semester we had to complete 1 major artwork and 1 essay. I would say about 15 people in the class, So there where the DH's, these guys would never shut up and would annoy everyone. Then you have the ones that also never shut up, they just talked about what they did over the weekend and their favorite actor and movie was. And than you had the ones that did work ever lesson and not much talking, which I was in.
So, the teacher did not give a stuff and the DH's not doing work, they just sat there being a pain to every one in the class. And on of the guys in there would make lies up to get his own way. So the teacher just sat there for 3 lessons a week and would do nothing, or would go the the gossip people and talk with them.
So, would draw every lesson, or work on my assignment. So the first assignment I completed was a series of drawings/ or a painting. I can not remember which was the first one, but in my eyes the work I completed had meaning to me and a good look from anyone else, they would be able to work a meaning out of it. So I complete that and the essay. and the mark I get back is a "C". Now, so it's now the second semester and I completed the other work and I cut up an image, placed it in a baking tray back in its original shape and filled the tray with water, and freezed it for a good week. took it outside and dropped it, and handed a filmed copy of the drop in as well. I believe it was the painting this time. and another essay to complete for the end of year 11. I do both works and get another "C".
Now, what pisses me off, is I do the work, and get a crap mark. Other people handed the assignment in weeks to months later, or did NOT complete the essay and they get a "B" or an "A". no dedication on the mark for being late by months or anything. I am handing all of my assignments on time and just scraping the "C" for the first year. And in that whole year, guess how much we learnt...... NOTHING!!! Where is your teaching skills, or did you leave them at your house each morning.
That was the first year. The second year, I thought, the bigger the better. More marks of course.... Same rules where you needed to complete an essay, 3 sets of artworks. and 1 video thing of yourself. First semester I come up with a good idea, Have a Knight walking through a mirror. Since the idea was insane at the time, and purchasing all the materials I needed was going to cost quite a bit, I want for the custom approach. So I used wall skirting as the frame, and I believe some industrial material for the mirror part. Since it was an art class, I got some 2 dollar foam/ vinyl to make the helmet, hands and foot. So I made a wire mesh of the hand, foot and the helmet, covered it up with the material. Painted it and handed that in along with the essay when it was due. And the mark I got reflected my creativity. "C"
And there where the people handing assignments in late and not working in class. I'm pretty sure that one of the requirements for the class was to work on your assignment in class. I got pulled up for the mirror idea because I was working at home, and could only take it in once a week to show the teacher, but no. I needed to work on it at school. This was about 2 metres tall so, leaving it at school was a no go as junior students would steal all of your work, and the teacher didn't like to give back your work after it had been marked.
So, next assignment comes up and I decide to do a digital image of an eye on Photoshop with Photoshoped glass infront and behind the eye. It turned out pretty sweet. Went and got it printed on a board, it was not cheap and hand that in, it was in a plastic sleeve to protect it from scratches. Did the assignment and handed this in the day it was due, as the printing take some days. Handed it in and got yet another "C". I got the art work back and no plastic sleeve, just sitting on a shelf with other art works on top of it. Nice way to respect other peoples artwork. How would you like me placing some on some of your artwork that can destroy it. RESPECT THE ARTWORK!!!
So, it comes done to the last piece of artwork for year 12. So I thought, why not do another digital image of all of the works I have completed and some that where in my artwork and make a nice collage of work. This image was of shattered glass with the artworks on the different pieces of the glass. So this turned out quite good as well, It was only A4 this one and in a nice frame. Hand this in, I do the video and hand it all in. This assignment get me......Drum roll.......................... You guessed it. A "C"
So, that part that pissed me off even more was that in the tow years of completing art, all we had learnt was the teacher was always late for the morning class we had. Did not give a damn about the DH's in the class, and would gossip with the gossip group for most of the lessons. And give people good marks for not handing in assignments fully completed. Not completing it on time and handing it in months later, and they got "B's" and "A's".
2 years, you think you would have learnt something, even how to draw a circle or something basic. Nothing was shown. I would have learnt with a monkey teaching me how to peal a banana. Or watching paint dry. I handed in all of my assignments on time, and All I got was a "C". nothing more or nothing less. just a "C". and other people got a "B" or an "A" for not doing the work. If I did not do the work, I would have gotten a "D" or an "E".
What was this teacher doing. Getting money just to gossip to students about their daily lives and what they are going to do over the weekend. Your a teacher, not a student. Teach something, and do not suck up to the other teachers when they walked into the class room.
So, What pissed me off the most, I went to collect the work I had handed in, the collage artwork for the last assignment. This was the remark I got:
"I little more work and it would have been complete".
You do not say that to me when you did not teach me anything in 2 years, let alone the first year I had you in year 9. And You Say that to my face. I give you guts for saying that to me, but when Other students did not complete the their work. And in my eyes it was Finished.
So, I start Uni in February the next year for the Animation course I am completing and the first mark I get back from the art teacher I had was a distinction for my drawings. Really, I was shocked from this mark, I am pretty sure I did not go under the Distinction mark for any of the uni assignments I had with this teacher.
Thank you art teacher from High school for saying I can NOT get anything greater than a "C" for my artwork for 2 years.
I do not even think I should sign this one with my name at the end.
Progress of a new
Hey, I haven't worked on anything that involves the story in any way. I do believe I am to start writing it up quite soon. In the first draft of the story for the creature, he came across a spider that started fighting with him. I have already made the creature Rykin in clay, I think 2 or 3 months ago. I have started to design the spider into more detail to be able to create a clay version of him holding a creature the same a Rykin. I shall place up some images as I go along and I shall add some new story ideas, concepts or anything that goes with the Rykin story.
- Joshua
- Joshua
Monday, 15 April 2013
Nintendo 64 racing games.
This post shall be about the old Nintendo 64 racing games, and some Playstation 1 games compared to now.
The first console I played was the Super Nintendo, and I was pretty young then. When we got a Nintendo 64, there where 2 main racing games I liked to play which were the Star Wars Pod racing game and a RC game called Re-volt. For the Star Wars game, you drove the racing pods that where in the phantom menace for anyone who does not know this game. You start with a few pods, and nearly every race you one, you got a new pod to be able to use. In each race, you needed to stay out in front with while keeping your pod in one piece. You hit a wall, you need to repair that section of the pod. This gave the game that extra difficultly if you kept hitting the walls. Repairing costed you speed and allowed the other races to catch up. You are able to destroy your pod if you hit something to hard, making the others to catch up as you respawn. The difficultly in this game was there, and each race you won, you felt something as you one the new pods. A lap of some of the tracks could be anywhere from 45 seconds to 3 minutes, with each track is 3 laps long. Needing to respawn and repairing your vehicle makes it a good workout to stay in front. The difficultly was there in that game. Now to Re-Volt
A game about Remote control cars running wild in life size environments. 4 different championship that are range from different environments- museum, suburbs, toy shop, etc. You get about 6 RCs to start of with and need to complete the championships to unlock more tracks and vehicles. You can also unlock RCs by time trail, Collecting a star and arcade mode. The hardest part is the championship, where you needed to come in the top 3 each race for the 4 races in that series. You only get 3 restarts for the whole 4 races, If you come just behind 3rd on the final lap, you got to restart that race, you run out and its game over for that championship. Needing to complete all the races again for that championship. If that was not enough, there are power ups (like the ones in Mario racing if you don't know this game). Most of them can have some splash effect, e.g. There is a fireworks power up, that allows you to fire at a car that is visible in front of you. You can fire it and it hits the RC, if there is a RC close enough to the one that gets hit, they to will be thrown of their course.
The weapons can make you go from hero to zero and visa versa. the vehicles are so light if you run into another RC trying to make them spin out, you may be the one facing the other way. Winning a race on this can be tough as each race is complete different with the opponents.
As for a Playstation one game called Hot Wheels Turbo Racing. ( I do like my racing games). Even though it did come out on the N64, we only got it on the Playstation. The championship in this was more brutal in my eyes, you could come any place from 1st to 6th (last). to continue on to the next championship you needed to come first in the points, which meant to stay in the lead. As there short cuts on each track, taking these helped you to win, but getting in them sometimes meant perfect precision. Taking a jump on an angle only to think you are in the gap for the shortcut as you fall to the ground, respawning to retry again or take the normal route. Back to the championship, If you won, you unlocked the next championship series, the tracks and a good amount of new cars to use. If you lost even by 1 point, An image came up (going by memory now) of the trophy destroyed with some text. As a child, this was devastating when this came up. Spending a a good half an hour on a championship only to see this image come up of the trophy you could have won destroyed.
These games where brutal in a way when you lost, but it taught me I needed to become better at them, brake later into corners, you boast at the most important time, and hold onto weapons so you have it when you need it. Take a different lines into the corner and also I actually memorized tracks. All this gave me a fighting chance at these games.
Games these days, not all of them, but a good amount of them have something called "FlashBack". I have to say I have used some in dirt when I wasn't bothered redoing a section of brick breaker (I think that's what its called). Other than this I do not like to use it. But this feature Takes the fun away from the game just a touch, , as if they want you to use it. I know you can turn the function off, or make it that you have less to use.
As for the rewards in the games, I don't see many rewards in this style of game, you get money to buy a new car, or to upgrade the vehicle. Some you do not need to purchase the vehicle, Its already there to use. I find the reward of winning some of these championships are not there as much. If you lose, there is no scene saying you lost, making you feel you need to do a lot better if you want to win this championship.
Some games do have the feel of the victory if you win after that massive struggle to stay in the lead. Also, just a quick think on games that give you money to buy new equipment/ cars. I have never been able to fail on of these games. And I personally find this disappointing. To have the fact to be able to fail would make the game more interesting for me, to show me where I go wrong and how to fix it for next time.
So, to sum all of what I have stated up quickly. I find the old games a greater learning curve and more based on your skill as a racer, as you can be working your way up the grid a lot of times in 1 race, and feeling relief when you one the race. Don't get me wrong, new games have it in there. It could just be because I was young and losing a race in the game was a big deal with what happened when you lost. Now it just seems like you can just skimp your way though if you want. Modern games are fun as they offer new ways to race and complete environments that you only dream about racing on. Also, I find there is a phase in games where the difficultly just vanished, and only now they are bringing back the hardness in the games, Which I like.
These are just my feelings on old racing games, and I love to play them now, the challenge and fun is still there, And the new games are just as fun.
- Joshua - Out - Digital word Racing!
The first console I played was the Super Nintendo, and I was pretty young then. When we got a Nintendo 64, there where 2 main racing games I liked to play which were the Star Wars Pod racing game and a RC game called Re-volt. For the Star Wars game, you drove the racing pods that where in the phantom menace for anyone who does not know this game. You start with a few pods, and nearly every race you one, you got a new pod to be able to use. In each race, you needed to stay out in front with while keeping your pod in one piece. You hit a wall, you need to repair that section of the pod. This gave the game that extra difficultly if you kept hitting the walls. Repairing costed you speed and allowed the other races to catch up. You are able to destroy your pod if you hit something to hard, making the others to catch up as you respawn. The difficultly in this game was there, and each race you won, you felt something as you one the new pods. A lap of some of the tracks could be anywhere from 45 seconds to 3 minutes, with each track is 3 laps long. Needing to respawn and repairing your vehicle makes it a good workout to stay in front. The difficultly was there in that game. Now to Re-Volt
A game about Remote control cars running wild in life size environments. 4 different championship that are range from different environments- museum, suburbs, toy shop, etc. You get about 6 RCs to start of with and need to complete the championships to unlock more tracks and vehicles. You can also unlock RCs by time trail, Collecting a star and arcade mode. The hardest part is the championship, where you needed to come in the top 3 each race for the 4 races in that series. You only get 3 restarts for the whole 4 races, If you come just behind 3rd on the final lap, you got to restart that race, you run out and its game over for that championship. Needing to complete all the races again for that championship. If that was not enough, there are power ups (like the ones in Mario racing if you don't know this game). Most of them can have some splash effect, e.g. There is a fireworks power up, that allows you to fire at a car that is visible in front of you. You can fire it and it hits the RC, if there is a RC close enough to the one that gets hit, they to will be thrown of their course.
The weapons can make you go from hero to zero and visa versa. the vehicles are so light if you run into another RC trying to make them spin out, you may be the one facing the other way. Winning a race on this can be tough as each race is complete different with the opponents.
As for a Playstation one game called Hot Wheels Turbo Racing. ( I do like my racing games). Even though it did come out on the N64, we only got it on the Playstation. The championship in this was more brutal in my eyes, you could come any place from 1st to 6th (last). to continue on to the next championship you needed to come first in the points, which meant to stay in the lead. As there short cuts on each track, taking these helped you to win, but getting in them sometimes meant perfect precision. Taking a jump on an angle only to think you are in the gap for the shortcut as you fall to the ground, respawning to retry again or take the normal route. Back to the championship, If you won, you unlocked the next championship series, the tracks and a good amount of new cars to use. If you lost even by 1 point, An image came up (going by memory now) of the trophy destroyed with some text. As a child, this was devastating when this came up. Spending a a good half an hour on a championship only to see this image come up of the trophy you could have won destroyed.
These games where brutal in a way when you lost, but it taught me I needed to become better at them, brake later into corners, you boast at the most important time, and hold onto weapons so you have it when you need it. Take a different lines into the corner and also I actually memorized tracks. All this gave me a fighting chance at these games.
Games these days, not all of them, but a good amount of them have something called "FlashBack". I have to say I have used some in dirt when I wasn't bothered redoing a section of brick breaker (I think that's what its called). Other than this I do not like to use it. But this feature Takes the fun away from the game just a touch, , as if they want you to use it. I know you can turn the function off, or make it that you have less to use.
As for the rewards in the games, I don't see many rewards in this style of game, you get money to buy a new car, or to upgrade the vehicle. Some you do not need to purchase the vehicle, Its already there to use. I find the reward of winning some of these championships are not there as much. If you lose, there is no scene saying you lost, making you feel you need to do a lot better if you want to win this championship.
Some games do have the feel of the victory if you win after that massive struggle to stay in the lead. Also, just a quick think on games that give you money to buy new equipment/ cars. I have never been able to fail on of these games. And I personally find this disappointing. To have the fact to be able to fail would make the game more interesting for me, to show me where I go wrong and how to fix it for next time.
So, to sum all of what I have stated up quickly. I find the old games a greater learning curve and more based on your skill as a racer, as you can be working your way up the grid a lot of times in 1 race, and feeling relief when you one the race. Don't get me wrong, new games have it in there. It could just be because I was young and losing a race in the game was a big deal with what happened when you lost. Now it just seems like you can just skimp your way though if you want. Modern games are fun as they offer new ways to race and complete environments that you only dream about racing on. Also, I find there is a phase in games where the difficultly just vanished, and only now they are bringing back the hardness in the games, Which I like.
These are just my feelings on old racing games, and I love to play them now, the challenge and fun is still there, And the new games are just as fun.
- Joshua - Out - Digital word Racing!
Sunday, 14 April 2013
Textual Analysis - The Croods
This shall be a quick brief on this movie:
Character Design: The characters are simple characters that you would thing of from stone age era, simple lines and some animal poses. The clothing is animal fur, nothing else, but does look clean at the start of the film. The father does seem a little bit to young. Just looking at some of the face poses that are on google images, they do remind me of Sherk quite a lot in they way it is posed.
Voice casting: The voices are all quite good, just as the father seemed he needed to be a little bit older, more rough and tough.
Performance: The performance for all the characters where good, suiting the characters well to their body type. most of the characters are cautious with the except of Eep (teenage girl) and 1 or 2 more characters are more physical driven. I do like gran and the conflict that Grug (father) as with here.
Lighting: The lighting goes good with the environment as a good amount is the sky. The night time scenes are well light and done, being able to see the characters, with the comedy or drama they place in there.
Sound/ Music: The music mixed well with the animation, it does not distract from the film its self.
Dialogue: The characters are speaking as they usually would, except in the start where it steps up the story which is telling you what is about to happen, I personally did not like this, but as the film started I forgot about what was just said. The dialogue between Gran and Grug is good, it brings that comedy relief in sections just for a laugh. It works as their actions go with this dialogue.
Story: The story is straight forward, no parallel stories or anything. Stuff that happened at the start of the film did come back in near the end, which you can forget but I don't see the need to remember it. It just works it way into a nice little laugh for the audience.
Production Design: The sets and props that were used at the start worked well with the theme of the story, but as the story went on, the sets seemed to get the fantasy feel to them, than went back to the stone age again. Not staying the fantasy part is a bad thing, it worked well with what was being shown in the story. The characters clothing was the same all the way though, which worked as well.
The characters worked well in the shots, the main characters stood out from the rest in the scenes, with some coming into the spot light in other just to break it up. As the locations play a good part of the mood of the character, with the character usually centered in the frame, or just left or right a bit.
overall, this was an interesting film and in my eyes, not a usual DreamWorks film in my eyes.
These are some of Grug's faces that remind me of Shrek.
These are some of Grug's faces that remind me of Shrek.
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- Joshua
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