Friday, October 12, 2007

Point Blank


This was one of my favorite movie of all time. This is also my favorite Al Pacino movie and he was such a great actor in this film although this was a pretty ruthless role. In this scene Al Pacino is about to kill another guy for some drugs and this was what moved him up in the drug business. I really like this shot because he really looks like a psycho killer. Also with the blood and sweat on his face you know he's serious and obviously someone is going to die. The palm trees in the background and his shirt really goes well together also.

Men's pair skating


This is just a hilarious scene when i first saw this. In this particular scene Will Ferrel and his partner skate together for the first time. Because they were both eliminated from the Men's single they found out they that both still really want to skate and the only way for them to do so is to pair up with each other. I don't know why they didn't go looking for a girl for a partner but it made the movie more funny with two guys skating with each other. This is actually a nice medium shot of the both of them but as you can tell the partner being held up is animated into that scene of some sort. If you closely look at his head it looks weird and it looks like it was just pasted there. Even with that little flaw this was one of my favorite scene in this movie.

Will Ferrel Close Up


This was not one of Will Ferrel's best movie but i thought there were some hilarious stuff in this movie. In this particular scene Will Ferrel and his skating partner attempt to do a new and banned skating move that they came up with. This scene shows how close his partner's skating blade is to his face will attempting the move. I like this shot because even though the skate is animated the close up on the skate and Will Ferrel's face is a really nice shot. Even though that skate is not there he even looks over at the skate as if it was there; man these actors are really good in what they do and i respect that.

More than meets the eye


I chose this specific scene because it was the first time all the transformers came together in the movie. I am a really big transformer fan and i can't express how well this movie was done even though the majority of the film was animated. I still can't get over how beautiful the color of the robots are and how realistic they are. I really like this shot because there was barely enough light in the dark alley to hide the detailed animation that might be a flaw and they did a really well job on that. I mean if the robots were to be shown in broad day light in a certain scene, it can be easier to point out and see how unreal the robots are.

Friday, September 7, 2007

Cow/Tractor Tipping


I chose this picture because this was a very funny scene. I'm sure everyone's heard of cow tipping and in this scene the boys have fun with these tractors/cows by tipping them over. Again i am just completely amazed of how the color looks and how realistic the sky also looks. Computer graphics are just so beautiful and well defined in quality. When looking at the picture i can almost feel like i am there out in the country side at night with stars all around. It just amazes me how far technology has come and how fast they continue to grow. I wonder how animations will look like 2 years from now.

Michael Jordan


I have not seen a Disney film in a while and when i saw Cars i really liked it a lot. I chose this particular picture because i just love how he was imitating Michael Jordan. Whenever Michael goes for a dunk he always sticks out his tongue and it was funny to see this coming from a car. I also loved the animation and how crisp and well define the movie looks. The color and quality of the movie was very nice and by comparing this type of movie to an old Disney movie, it is just amazing how far technology has gone.

Marching into Batlle


This was a nice long shot that i liked from this movie. The soldiers were marching into battle in what looks to be a very hot day. I didn't notice anything spectacular in particular but the angle of the camera when it took this shot looked like it was very high as if from a crane. I noticed it looked hot because there were no trees around, a long dirt road, yellow and white weeds, and nothing except for waist high bushes. Putting all these things together just made it look like it was hot and everyone did not look enthusiastic at all so it seems that they still have a long trip to go.