The combination of great science fiction stories and beautiful animation art

Jerod 2022-01-04 08:01:02

Although live-action movies give people a great shock, I think that animation can better express this kind of surreal work. This is the reason why I love Animatrix...

except for the story and script, the scene design and breakthrough in this film The style of painting is even more eye-catching.

In "Second Renaissance", Maeda Masahiro’s Buddhist-style reincarnation presentation and Zion’s "Bodhisattva" host feel very strange, and his Studio 4C is also more famous for Animatrix.

Watanabe Shinichiro used gouache wantonly in "Kid's Story". With the distorted face and body of the movement and the swaying of the camera transition, let us experience the agility of gouache animation and the strength of freehand brushwork. In "A Detective Story", he used black and white photos in a sketch style to show off the retro style, and this performance was also very successful.

Compared with other stories, "Beyond" is childlike and fresh. After entering the haunted house, there is a scene where the protagonist stands on a narrow path and looks at the sky above. The ultra-realistic oil painting scene and heavenly light are even more fascinating. Morimoto Kouji once again showed his strength.

Yoshiaki Kawajiri is impressive because of the exaggerated style of long triangle body + thin waist. The seaweed-like hair and the over-shaded face may not be liked by everyone, but this style shows a strong vitality in his "Program" and "World Record" and gets along very well with the surreal style. Rapport.

Although Andy Jones's "Final Fantasy" failed, his 3D work still maintained its due quality, and "Final Fight of Osiris" is also a good work. In contrast, I was very disappointed with "Matriculated" produced by Peter Chung. Regardless of the style and character, the entire production and integration of 2D and 3D is too crude.

Nevertheless, this series has a high artistic standard in animation as a whole, and it suits my taste very well.

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Extended Reading
  • Emmalee 2022-03-24 09:02:21

    A complement to the Matrix worldview. The background introduction before the launch of the real-life trilogy helps to understand the building of the entire Matrix. When the human-machine conflict evolved into a human-machine war, humans did not hesitate to cover the sky to cut off the energy source of the robot, and the robot turned to human beings as an energy source to establish The Matrix system turns humans into slaves of machines, connects the mother body with the human brain, and makes them think they live in the real world. The biggest bug in the system is the occasional awakened people who built the dungeon of Zion to fight the robots. However, all these are superficial phenomena, and all human actions are only the execution of the will of the machine

  • Stewart 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    Nine animations with different painters and styles belong to the side story of "The Matrix", which further elaborates the matrix theory.

The Animatrix quotes

  • The Instructor: The prolonged barrage engulfed Zero-One in the glow of a thousand suns. But unlike their former masters with their delicate flesh, the machines had little to fear of the bombs' radiation and heat. Thus did Zero-One's troops advance outwards in every direction. And one after another, mankind surrendered its territories. So the leaders of men conceived of their most desperate strategy yet. A final solution: the destruction of the sky.

  • [after removing a bug from Ash's eye]

    Ash: What just happened?

    Trinity: Mr. Ash, dream of having an eye exam lately?

    [quick flashback to dream]

    Ash: Yeah, how'd you know?

    [Trinity hands Ash the bug]

    Trinity: You've just stepped to the edge of the looking glass.