quiet ambitions

Firstly please don't think because I have been absent from blogging that nothing is progressing with my short. If anything it's the opposite - it's never too far away from my thoughts and discussions. I havn't been this poor yet totally content with my life for a long time. I love being in this industry - I love getting up in the morning ready to attack what ever is planned for the day, I am keen as ever and the only thing I can nail down for a reason is that I am working freelance and able to be as creative as I like. Dan and I have a few projects going with the long term plans being my animated short (Welcome to the Biggs) and onto maybe one day a feature (got to love the dreamers hah). Dan read an early script I wrote off his treatment for a full length feature and he liked it, WOW ! this is cool because he's the writer. I was expecting some harsh feedback considering it's his idea.


Different note - I watched Monsters Vs Aliens the other day on IMAX !!!!! 3D, so where do I start. Firstly, freaking incredible character design, I loved it. There was plenty of empathy for the characters and the visual style and animation style was spot on, another great job by Dreamworks. Now onto the story - I really felt that after 30 minutes of fighting scenes that that was really enough. Surfs Up my all time favorite animated movie hammers all over this movie in the story department, it was just way too much action and not enough plot developments to get me excited.


Oh and one more thing - watching stereoscopic movies with 3D glasses on top of actual glasses - while NOT being directly in the middle of the IMAX massive screen was MASSIVELY distracting. Anything within the left 3rd of the screen was blurry regardless of how I angled my head, it just pissed me off way too much. I think I will have to watch it again without the 3D maybe I will get into it.