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Laughing Gas
“Up” sets the summer comedy bar high.
by Wayne Melton
Sometimes the promise of technology can be misleading. “Up” is the first film from Pixar, the ground-breaking studio that revolutionized the animated feature, to appear using the latest 3D technology. And yet it will probably be remembered best for being the funniest comedy made by the studio to this point. Read the rest of this entry »
The charms of “WALL-E” are dirty, beautiful and slightly familiar.
3-D animation has finally found its muse: dirt. Most often used to render shiny, rotund humanoids or zippy anthropomorphic creatures living in spit-shined environs, the technology’s most striking images in the new Pixar film “WALL-E” are rusty, dusty and decaying. Unblemished, bulbous shapes are still present, but they’ve been usurped in splendor by dented and hole-riddled boxes, culminating in a spunky being known as WALL-E, a sort of robot janitor who bides his time on an Earth covered in heaps of corroding metal and decaying plastic. Read the rest of this entry »
