Giving Credit Where it is Due

You know what I see in animation? I don’t just watch an animated movie with the plot, characters and the music. I love to go in-depth to see how the creators of an animated movie did it with specific technologies and software that blows my mind.

Take my favorite DreamWorks Animation film How to Train Your Dragon for example. It took the animators up to four years to create every single strand of hair or fur, clothing, tree, leaf, cloud, dragon scale, etc. They worked very hard to make it as beautiful and realistic as they possibly could, and they did a pretty good job at it too.

 

Or take Disney/Pixar’s Monsters Inc. Do you know how many hairs are on Sully’s massive blue and purple polka-dotted body? Thousands. For the creators to make each hair have unique, realistic movement, they had to work on it for 10-12 hours each. That’s beyond impressive.

I know some people who don’t necessarily like a Disney/Pixar or DreamWorks Animation film. They don’t like a particular storyline or think the movie as a whole is dumb. But there is a particular reason that I prefer to watch one of these two companies’ animation films over a reality film.

There is so much time and hard work that goes into each background, every fiber of material, and every color. When you watch the making of some of these top-notch CGI films, it is insane how much work has to be done. These men and women use technology at its finest to bring us a movie that took them years of developing, molding and shaping into a fantastic product of animation.

Combined with amazing talent and thematic scores worth remembering, DreamWorks Animation and Disney/Pixar films will always be close to the top of my favorites list.

I don’t just have high opinions on movie content. I really do love movies and I do have good things to say about films. So here is my point of this post: don’t just watch an animation film and write it off as “stupid” or “boring”. You may not be a big fan of DreamWorks’ Dragons, but do you really know how much work was put into it?

If it’s not your cup of tea, fine! We’ve all got our preferences on what to watch. But just because you don’t like it, does not make it stupid. Give the movie creators the credit they deserve. To you, it’s just a simple movie; but to them, it’s their hard work that enables them to put food on the table.

 

P.S. The two How to Train Your Dragon images are from a new poster that is promoting How to Train Your Dragon 2, going to theatres in June. I posted these to point out the amazing detail (leather, skin, scales). Pretty cool stuff if you ask me! Really, you cannot enlarge these photos and tell me they don't look fantastic.

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