tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847851333098651491.post4931139343857257167..comments2024-03-28T04:52:36.628-07:00Comments on Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow: Ten-minute clip of Fumihiko Sori's "To" attempts to dazzle but fizzles insteadChris MaGeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00129529721240142242noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847851333098651491.post-2887856799360731862009-11-17T03:35:51.807-08:002009-11-17T03:35:51.807-08:00"...the thing that has confused me about anim..."...the thing that has confused me about anime in particular and animated films in general is why their creators feel it necessary to caricaturize human beings..."<br /><br />I think the answer to this is that the more real you try and make people look, the less real they actually do look. Pixar realised this early on. Watch 'Toy Story' and the toys look super-real and the kids look terrible, hence when they did 'The Incredibles' they stylised the humans because it just works better. Animated films with human characters rendered 'realistically' like 'Beowulf' and 'Polar Express' look not just unrealistic but downright creepy. I think it's mainly the eyes, they just look dead.<br /><br />Having said all that, I must add that while Japanese animated movies have given us some real treasures (Studio Ghibli etc), the consensual style of much anime with those hideously enlarged eyes and exaggerated hairstyles is uncreative and just downright ugly. Japan has the most incredible, highly developed aesthetic in the world and yet visually most anime gives us pap. (Why for example does a nation with really beautiful eyes animate its characters with a hideous exaggeration of western eyes?) Thank god for real anime artists like Miyazaki and Makoto Shinkai.Fergushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06799833058729701742noreply@blogger.com