Less Barney, perhaps. Or maybe more - sometimes it felt like Barney was struggling with a medium he didn't quite understand. (But that may just be me projecting my inadequacies onto the artist.)
I've been tossing this around and wondering about the artists vision being limited by his ability and perhaps budget. Some of the visual effects in 3 were atrocious and unfortunately served to "throw" me out of the film. Obviously Barney was hampered by a limited CGI budget and perhaps his skill or the skills of his assistants.
I saw parts of 1 online in really bad compression quality and the grapes falling out of the shoe looked like grapes and not like little CGI balls. I was a little disappointed to see them so crudely rendered.
I understand there's an aspect of abstraction, but I think when making film you should try to make it look as much like film as possible. Otherwise, isn't it like carving a statue out of styrofoam and then explaining that you couldn't afford marble? (That is, unless, you're making some sort of marble vs styrofoam statement.)
So, which parts worked, really worked for you? What were the moments where your mind just couldn't help but cry, "yes!"
With the prosthetics, I wondering if any of that owes a debt to Barney's football scholarship > injury > artist life path.
How much of our reaction is informed by the fact that this is Art? Perhaps when asked: "So what did you think?" It is is enough to answer: "Crap film, brilliant art"
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Date: 2004-02-16 05:13 pm (UTC)I've been tossing this around and wondering about the artists vision being limited by his ability and perhaps budget. Some of the visual effects in 3 were atrocious and unfortunately served to "throw" me out of the film. Obviously Barney was hampered by a limited CGI budget and perhaps his skill or the skills of his assistants.
I saw parts of 1 online in really bad compression quality and the grapes falling out of the shoe looked like grapes and not like little CGI balls. I was a little disappointed to see them so crudely rendered.
I understand there's an aspect of abstraction, but I think when making film you should try to make it look as much like film as possible. Otherwise, isn't it like carving a statue out of styrofoam and then explaining that you couldn't afford marble? (That is, unless, you're making some sort of marble vs styrofoam statement.)
So, which parts worked, really worked for you? What were the moments where your mind just couldn't help but cry, "yes!"
With the prosthetics, I wondering if any of that owes a debt to Barney's football scholarship > injury > artist life path.
How much of our reaction is informed by the fact that this is Art? Perhaps when asked: "So what did you think?" It is is enough to answer: "Crap film, brilliant art"