Monster House

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Post by Dacey » January 14th, 2006, 4:20 pm

Me, I don't like the design of that fat boy. The girl is alirght, though.
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Monster House Trailer

Post by Meg » April 29th, 2006, 8:58 am

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pict ... edium.html

Ugh.

I really, really really, REALLY don't like motion capture. The movements of all the characters look so terrible! It's such a shame, too, because this sort of kind of looks like it had a decent story, plus the house is awesome.

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Post by Kaszubas » April 29th, 2006, 10:26 am

hehe - yep- I've seen it last night and I must admit that my opinion is quite similar... gummy movements and facial expresion. House itself maybe is nice, but I don't like color scheme of that movie, shading. They tried to make this movie more stylized and exagerated than Polar Express but stopped somewere in between - character proportions, skin facture, hair and cloth looks quite stylized (aspecially hair) but more realistic lighting, motion capture, facial capture and photo textures. It dosn't look appealing to me... Those grey faces... I really much more prefere visual style of another movie made by the very same group o people - Open Season.

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Post by PixarVixen » April 29th, 2006, 1:57 pm

My trailer isn't showing up, and yet I can hear the sound. :(

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Post by Ben » April 30th, 2006, 11:45 am

Merged this thread with the earlier one on this movie.
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ANNOYINGLY...I had the chance to see this last Thursday but couldn't get to the venue in time.

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Post by Meg » April 30th, 2006, 1:10 pm

PixarVixen wrote:My trailer isn't showing up, and yet I can hear the sound. :(

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Post by PixarVixen » April 30th, 2006, 4:07 pm

Haha. Why? Is it that bad?

I remember seeing a trailer for it when I went to see Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire. I thought it was pretty neat. I haven't been able to see this one yet, but how could it be bad?

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Post by Meg » April 30th, 2006, 4:25 pm

The people are really creepy...I dunno, when I see an animated movie, I want it to actually be ANIMATED!

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Post by PixarVixen » April 30th, 2006, 5:10 pm

Well, isn't it supposed to look creepy? Not every animated movie can have a bright, colorful, cheerful look to it. Corpse Bride wasn't like that, for the most part. I'm not saying I'm a fan of CB though. =P

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Post by Kinoo » May 1st, 2006, 5:36 am

Well Corpse Bride was ANIMATED, Monster House is more like a TV show where they use Motion Capture to animate a cartoon character to host a game... Cheap.
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Post by Meg » May 1st, 2006, 7:50 am

PixarVixen wrote:Well, isn't it supposed to look creepy? Not every animated movie can have a bright, colorful, cheerful look to it. Corpse Bride wasn't like that, for the most part. I'm not saying I'm a fan of CB though. =P

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No no, I'm not talking about the look of the movie; I'm talking about the character animation. The movement of everyone is terrible; it doesn't go with the style of the characters at ALL.

I consider Monster House and Polar Express to be more like a big long special effect than an actual animated movie.

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Post by Uli » May 13th, 2006, 3:40 am

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Post by Dacey » May 17th, 2006, 10:13 pm

"Monster House" just got rated PG for "Frightening images and sequences, thematic elements, some crude humor and breif language".

Wow, long list of stuff for a PG-rated animated movie. :D
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Post by Ben » May 18th, 2006, 7:34 am

The Polar Express looked okay in still images too... ;)

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Post by Meg » May 18th, 2006, 7:48 am

Key word: "still images"

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