Friday, May 11, 2007

Ogre babies dancing? Are you f*#@$in kidding me?

Usually I censor out my bad words like I did for the title to this post but I am so insanely upset at the way this studio is being run that I will not be able to control my language. What I'm so upset about is something the marketing fuckwits at our company did to stir up more hype for Shrek the Turd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHddF0h-n9g

How the fuck is that not the worse thing ever done in animation. First of all, if your the animator on this promotional "piece" of shit, you really need to rethink your life's goals and while your at it see if you can figure out where you left your artistic integrity. In your defense though, I know that they probably threw the shot at you one day before the deadline and gave you some dancing reference material. The animation is horrible. NO WEIGHT. NO APPEAL NO ARCS. NO FACIAL ANIMATION. NOTHING! For gods sake how the fuck did they release this? I know its the same marketing genius that thought up the idea to have the slugs from Flushed Away dance around to old tunes. Its the same exact formula. At least with the latter, the animation was solid. Whats happening to our studio? Mr Katzenberg, please let us artists do what we love..... Make great movies with charm, appeal, and a solid story... not The Bee Movie. I know your kicking yourself in the head for greenlighting this project and letting Mr. "Whaaaaats the Deallll?" have free reign over every aspect of the film. Why do you think the test audience in Arizona hated it so much? EXACTLY! I don't know if you've noticed, but there are some amazingly talented artists (lighters, animators, story artists, modelers, riggers (Except for lazy smoker lead who always says no) etc who are being told to make a shitty movie. All of us at work have been watching the 9 minute clip from Ratatouille with jaws to the floor, in awe of how beautiful the movie looks. Our movie looks like the biggest piece of shit compared to Ratatouille. Its not because of us artists. Its because of the way the company is being run along with the direction or lack of. Anytime anyone has an amazing idea, its shot down because oh I don't know.... because its GOOD?

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