Blog #4

Animation is always what children like, and I used to watch it a lot when I was a kid.

As people grown up, everybody stops watching it. What I concern is that it is because animation is lack of reality: characters look mechanical, anything does not look real. However, 3D animation

broke these issues. 3D is a animation style that has been popular more and more today, and many animation movies are 3D. What I like about 3D animation is that it is more realistic than other types of animation. That is why I think that characters in 3D animations are liveliness.

My favorite 3D animation production company is Disney- Pixar. Their works are always my favorite, such as Monsters Inc.,Mr. Incredible, etc. All characters in Pixar's animations are lovable and liveness. The best work of them is Toy Story as I concern.

When the fist Toy Story came out, I was very amazed because all characters which are toys look like real.

For example, the main character, Woody. Woody is a cow boy doll, whose face made of wood, body is cotton, and cloth is a piece of cloth. His face is coated, so it is luster. Audience can know that because they can see how light is reflected on the surface of his face. Unlike it, his costume is made of a piece of cloth, and it does not reflect light, but we see the texture of it, and it looks like it is made of cotton. Like this, we see the details of texture of any objects in 3D animation that we do not see in other types of animation.

Another thing that attract me is the movements of the characters. Most of characters are toys, and they, of course, are not supposed to move by itself when humans are around: toys are supposed to be moved by them. Therefore, they are lifeless when humans are around. But whenever humans are gone, the toys are totally different from how they were before: they talk. run, dance, etc, like humans. Difference is that since they are toy, some of the toys can remove parts of their bodies, like Potato Head. These toys' movements, even human characters', in the animation look very similar to our movements in real life. These characters' movements make them very lifelike and made me think them as humans, not toys.

Like these, Pixar succeeded to use 3D, which enable to show details, to make the animation more believable. They also give these toy characters realistic movements. Including of all these, Toy Story is one of the significant 3D animations, and it is one of my favorites all the time.

Toy Story3 Video Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_FfHA5whXc