The Nightmare Before Christmas
O.K., I got this link off of the Pixar Luxo website: some cool interviews with Sellick, Don Hahn, and Elfman about this, including a really interesting one with John Lassetter. 
http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=co ... &Itemid=33
They mention some upcoming films and how MTR will be also premiere in 3d.
Also, Don Hahn seems pretty happy and involved; I doubt his sabbatical will be all that long.
http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=co ... &Itemid=33
They mention some upcoming films and how MTR will be also premiere in 3d.
Also, Don Hahn seems pretty happy and involved; I doubt his sabbatical will be all that long.
You can’t just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!
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GeorgeC
The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D
I just had to get out and see a film.
Picked the re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas since it had been a while since I'd seen the film and since it was newly restored and remastered with new technology in 3D.
When all's said and done, the film remains the best stop-motion film I've ever seen and one of the better animated films of the past fifteen years.
It's off-kilter in a slightly-grosser-than Dr. Seuss way but not as blandly colorless as The Corpse Bride was. It also didn't have the usual problems of a rudderless story as 99% of the other stop-motion features I've seen including the aforementioned Corpse Bride, Wallace & Gromit, and so on. It's a good film where it counts story-wise IN SPITE of being animated.
(See, this is what always kills me about animation. Most people -- INCLUDING 95% of the people that work on these darn films -- FORGETS the story part and get so cooked up in visuals that they forget to make a film about characters we can actually CARE ABOUT. Frankly, most of the animation pundits I've read are STILL clueless on this part and don't have a frickin' idea HOW to make a character or film the audiences will care about.)
Even if this film's remastering had failed, it still would have been a nice theater visit. Let's face it -- it's been a MISERABLE year for films and the continuing drought of creativity in animation and continuing flood of brainless, endlessly derivative CGI films continues. This has been the real reason I haven't posted much lately.
The 3D gimmick works to an extent with Nightmare which was done with 3D animation in the first place. It does work surprisingly well in some scenes where objects are thrown at the camera but frankly I don't see the current 3D trend lastly much longer than the 1950s 3D craze unless newer projects make bolder use of this technology. There is still a sense of unnatural frame separation but it's not as bad as older 3D films. I'm guessing non-film based technology (moving holography?) might eventually solve the pane/frame separation effect in the future. It's a shame most people are skipping out on Nightmare because of its availability on DVD but film-going ain't cheap for families anymore.
Frankly, better stuff is out on video and even Pixar's latest offering looked so bland (Cars) that I skipped it. The studios gotta do better than this if they want to keep the older kids like me interested in new product. The Wild's, Over the Hedges's, and Happy Feet only make the Looney Tunes Golden Collections and Disney Treasures look that much better...
Picked the re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas since it had been a while since I'd seen the film and since it was newly restored and remastered with new technology in 3D.
When all's said and done, the film remains the best stop-motion film I've ever seen and one of the better animated films of the past fifteen years.
It's off-kilter in a slightly-grosser-than Dr. Seuss way but not as blandly colorless as The Corpse Bride was. It also didn't have the usual problems of a rudderless story as 99% of the other stop-motion features I've seen including the aforementioned Corpse Bride, Wallace & Gromit, and so on. It's a good film where it counts story-wise IN SPITE of being animated.
(See, this is what always kills me about animation. Most people -- INCLUDING 95% of the people that work on these darn films -- FORGETS the story part and get so cooked up in visuals that they forget to make a film about characters we can actually CARE ABOUT. Frankly, most of the animation pundits I've read are STILL clueless on this part and don't have a frickin' idea HOW to make a character or film the audiences will care about.)
Even if this film's remastering had failed, it still would have been a nice theater visit. Let's face it -- it's been a MISERABLE year for films and the continuing drought of creativity in animation and continuing flood of brainless, endlessly derivative CGI films continues. This has been the real reason I haven't posted much lately.
The 3D gimmick works to an extent with Nightmare which was done with 3D animation in the first place. It does work surprisingly well in some scenes where objects are thrown at the camera but frankly I don't see the current 3D trend lastly much longer than the 1950s 3D craze unless newer projects make bolder use of this technology. There is still a sense of unnatural frame separation but it's not as bad as older 3D films. I'm guessing non-film based technology (moving holography?) might eventually solve the pane/frame separation effect in the future. It's a shame most people are skipping out on Nightmare because of its availability on DVD but film-going ain't cheap for families anymore.
Frankly, better stuff is out on video and even Pixar's latest offering looked so bland (Cars) that I skipped it. The studios gotta do better than this if they want to keep the older kids like me interested in new product. The Wild's, Over the Hedges's, and Happy Feet only make the Looney Tunes Golden Collections and Disney Treasures look that much better...
Wasn't sure where to put this so I thought I'd stick it here:
It's this monday. I assume it's open to the public.
http://www.animationnation.com/ubb/ulti ... p=1#000000
It's this monday. I assume it's open to the public.
http://www.animationnation.com/ubb/ulti ... p=1#000000
You can’t just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!