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I just saw the new Winnie the Pooh movie. Oops I mean “Christopher Robin”.

When I first saw the Trailer

I thought it was the Disney Corp trying to cash in on the critically acclaimed:

Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vq0YtgzCEc

And now that I’ve seen it…. I still kind of think that.

I enjoyed parts of it. Its technically amazing. HOW did they make those animals move? Puppetry? Advanced CGI? Or… most likely… a combination of all of them?

The characters were a clever hybrid of the original storyboard drawings and Disney cartoon models.

The real Christopher Robin:

Ewan McGregors a great actor, but this guy looks more the part:

The story is a bit remiscent of Spielbergs HOOK . The work a holic dad who cant find time to be with his family.

It also reminded me a bit of DREAM CHILD, TED, and the Harry Potters…

WHO was this movie for? Small children? Jaded Adults?

And THIS “Christopher Robin” has almost NO connection to what I know of the real one ( and I’m not even that much a Pooh buff).

If they can use the “magic tree” to teleport from London to the hundred Acre wood, why couldn’t they use it to transport back?

It has marvellous moments, but the ending was bit too much “Disney Ex Machina”

Artex KARATE

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2D Animated commercial for ArTex Funding. Made in Adobe Flash( AKA Adobe Animate,) Adobe After Effects and Premiere.

Karate Animation.

Call ArTex Funding – we are Alternative Business Lenders.

We fight off the Ninjas to get you the best loan for any financial condition of your business.

ArTex Funding has many different alternative working capital asset-based funding programs and are more flexible and creative than most financing sources…….

www.artexfunding.com

Austin, Texas 78738 Phone: (512) 261.0024

https://www.adobe.com/products/animate

https://www.adobe.com/aftereffects

https://www.adobe.com /premiere

ArTex Funding Commercials

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These are animated web commercials I made for ArTex Funding over the past two years.

This is the best one I did for them:

This took about 4 months to make. I used Adobe Flash (Animate), Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects.

A simpler spot made in FLASH and AFTER EFFECTS:

Basketball Spot:

Windmills:

Funnel:

Archer Spot:

Karate Spot:

https://www.artexfunding.com/

Address:17009 Flint Rock Rd
Austin Texas 78738
Phone: 512.261.0024 Mobile: 512.750.5768

RED TAILS FX

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I’m a little confused.

According to this video, every scene with a pilot in a plane was ALL CGI?

At 1.12 and 3.40, are those shots of real actors or pure animation?

I would think it would be much more convincing to put a real actor in a mock up plane and “key” him into the CGI. Maybe the CGI person is there to react to the motion capture information gathered by shooting the real actors?

George Lucas was the producer not the director. Lucasfilm employee Anthony Hemingway was the actual director. It was in the media that after Hemingway finished the film, Lucas took over and re shoot many scenes. Was that because Hemingway was a bad director or that Lucas is hyper controlling? Seeing as how Lucas re tinkered with the Star Wars films, I’d blame Lucas with no slight against Hemingway.

As a Lucas production, the plane scenes are all elaborate ILM created special effects and shot very “Star Wars -ey” ( yeah I know, the Star Wars dogfight scenes are known to be ” WW2 movies in space).

I may have to re watch RED TAILS again. My memories of it was the effects were good but the film itself was weak. I thought the HBO Tuskegee Airmen tele movie was lower budgeted but somehow a better over all watching experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Tails

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485985/

https://www.ilm.com/

https://www.starwars.com/

https://www.lucasfilm.com/

Supermans Kyptonian rocket

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Supermans Kyptonian rocket

A panel from an old Superman Comic photoshopped into layers and composited into motion graphics / animation. I animated the rocket blast in After Effects.

Effect> Simulation> CC Particle Systems > and added blur to the lines.

https://www.deviantart.com/hairypolack/art/Superman-Color-Corrected-757732023?ga_submit_new=10%3A1533343754

Multiple separate layers were duplicated. I used lasso and pen tools to cut out the images. I then used auto color, color balance and the paint bucket fill tool to make the image look new.