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Film Reviews


Mary and Max
http://sergicayuela.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/review-animation-film-mary-max.html

Paprika
http://sergicayuela.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/review-animation-film-paprika.html

Sita Sings the Blues

http://sergicayuela.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/review-animation-film-sita-sings-blues.html

Waltz with Bashir
http://sergicayuela.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/review-animation-film-waltz-with-bashir.html

Persepolis
http://sergicayuela.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/review-animation-film-persepolis.html

Belleville Rendezvous
http://sergicayuela.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/review-animation-film-belleville.html

When the Wind Blows
http://sergicayuela.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/review-animation-film-when-wind-blows.html

Did we miss one of the films in the blog?, because I thought that the only movies I hadn't seen in class were Paprika and Sita sings the blues.

Maya Tutorials

This is actually my weak spot. I'm ashamed and frustraded with that. I had to remake the pipeline three times cause of troubles and my retarded laptop. Even though i have to say i've learned a lot about the program and I started to take interest about it to make future personal projects.

I would like to add more stuff if it's still worth to post it.

Pipeline 2

http://sergicayuela.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/maya-tutorials-pipeline-2.html

Dynamics 1

http://sergicayuela.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/maya-tutorial-dynamics-1-sketching.html

http://sergicayuela.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/maya-tutorial-dynamics-1-directional.ht

Maya tutorial: Dynamics 1 (Directional emiters)

Maya tutorial: Dynamics 1 (Sketching particles)

First part of the dynamics tutorial.

Maya tutorials: Pipeline 2

The maya tutorial of the bridge. I created all the model in the university but for some reason the project rejected to open in my laptop. So I had to repeat it for 3rd time. The second was when I had lost my pen drive.

The low resolution model.

Starting with the high resolution models.

This is the spot with the last remaining image I have from my folders. I have all the model done in high resolution but I couln't make the textures and UV. In both my laptop or the university pc wasn't able to do the this the video said.

Review animation film: Sita Sings the Blues

Sita Sings the Blues

Curious film with simplist animation and indian-arabic topic. Big part of the reproduction is hold by singing of the main character. I would say that with an american style, that crashes to the oriental style.

The plot and the meaning of the things are hard to me tell cause of the accent. All I catch was, that some god tries to steal the woman of other man. And still have troubles with the real time images, where the style changes completely.

As I said the animation and the cuality its simplist with few movements even the secondary characters looks the same, but there is a good contrast of colors. The fire takes a special meaning for the movie, it appears in a lot of scenes.

As my personal opinion y quite dislike the film, maybe because my personal preferences takes me away from musicals, but in the end I didn't enjoy the film as I did with other animations.

Review animation film: When the Wind Blows

When the Wind Blows

Takes place in a situation where everybody is worried with the confrontation between USA and the URSS. The characters are two elders living in the contryside with few people nearby.

The husband sees one day one goverment advice of what to do in an atomic catastrophe and how to react agains the fallout. Since then he decides to make a vault using some parts of the house anoyng his wife in the process. Unfortunately, the nuclear bombs fell down and in that situation they try to survive with the indications they had in a vage attempt understand the situation and the final problems that they will have to encounter.

The animation its quite curious, it's like childish, but the topic it's so serious, that you don't have how to feel or react. Then you feel that they are ignorants, but then you may think they look like childs and start to embrace them. Usually it's said, at elderly two times childly. 

To finish I would say the film it was enjoyable but for me I wouldn't watch it again. The feels and the suffer are not in my list of characteristics of a movie, even more if the characters are that adorable and innocent.

Review animation film: Belleville Rendezvous

Belleville Rendezvous

The film goes around a child that lacks in motivation. His grandmother tries to catch his interest with different options until finds out that the bike is his one true desire. After that, the boy grows up and becomes a professional cyclist and manages to go to the "Tour de France". There is kidnapped and since then his grandmother search from him, arriving to the city of Belleville. The site where takes place the rescue.

The most amaizing characteristic of this film is the type of animation. Tis isn't only a cartoon, its a animated caricature. The extreme movement of tthe characters, the extreme faces and bodies, all to feel a satiric and extreme vision of the world.

It's great, I had a good time enjoying it. Besides in some moments starts to be monotonous it's inmediatelly fixed with history loop or action situation. I believe this is one of the examples that shows how cartoons are not only for kids.