Computer Animation Arts

How timely for our Year 2s:  a postmodern satire on a film you've recently enjoyed! Somehow, this is quite depressing :(

Yep, that pretty much does it.

Well, it's a bit late/early for meta-fiction related content on this blog, but I saw this and it made me 'laugh out loud'.

Saw this - made me smile!

I know, I know - I have to move on.  I need to 'get a life'. I have to get passed this fanboy Prometheus grief ... but see? I'm not alone; another bullseye from the How It Should Have Ended people...  

Many of you will already be familiar with the 'How It Should Have Ended' animated skits, which lampoon Hollywood movies by poking fun at their plot holes and contrivances of script.   This selection, featuring  Toy Story 3 , Scream , Aliens,  and the Harry Potter franchise, made me 'laugh out loud' at their pitch-perfect appropriations of favourite moments and skewering of narrative absurdities.  You're probably much too busy to watch these...

Space Stallions is a beautifully observed parody of 1980s animation as exemplified by He-Man and She-Ra (and the recent CGAA Character Design project!).   It's got everything; the over-wrought script, the paint-by-numbers archetypes, the synth-tastic signature tune, the almost-too-sexy-for-a-kid's-show heroine, and the blatant homoerotic/ Village People vibe, with its love of 'real men' with real facial hair!  The real success of this animation is the way it left me wanting to watch an actual episode of Space Stallions while munching my way through a bowl of sugary breakfast cereal.  Take a look at the original opening credits for He-Man and She-Ra and marvel a-new at their utter campness!

A pitch-perfect parody of boy band pop/pap from some clever/creatively bankrupt ad agency for the Yeo Valley milk & yoghurt company; a manufactured pop group singing a middle-of-the-road ballad with obligatory key-change that is largely indistinguishable from 'real; manufactured pop groups singing middle-of-the-road ballads with obligatory key-changes...

'A "Lynchian" man and woman find a 1950's style educational video that teaches them How To Make A David Lynch Film. While going through Lynch's canon, they learn how to achieve long pauses for no reason, crazy music and sounds, stories with no plot, and how to confuse the shit out of their audience! HOW TO MAKE A DAVID LYNCH FILM is a parody that will bring Lynch lovers and haters together in comical harmonium!' How To Make A David Lynch Film from Red and Tan on Vimeo .