m-flo loves Chara / Love to Live By

The history of the relationship of animation and music tells us of a birthing point where machines, such as phonograms and projectors, would play a major role in publicising and inspiring artistry on a global scale. In this Japanese Hip-Hop video, this Hip-Hop group "m-flo", a personal favourite of mine, have taken their passion for old-school forms of art and entertainment and applied it to their Jazzy tune "Love to Live By", in March 28, 2007. Their feature artist "Chara" has an old-school Jazzy vocal style that inspired music video makers to hire animators and create a world for this song; resembling those of Max Fleischer and Grim Natwick's "Betty Boop" cartoons of 1930, particularly the theatrical number she starred in "Betty Boop - Rise to Fame" of 1934. This piece not only pays tribute to the global sensation that was Betty Boop, but to the principles of animation itself, repackaged in a form appreciated by today's market.

I SAW TIN TIN in 3D with my CLASSMATES at the ODEON YESTERDAY

Initial comments:
Oh wow! This was a masterpiece, visually for me. I only have one criticism. I felt TIN TIN's character was too 2 dimensional, the star should have been Captin Hadock. I'll speak more of this later.



A quick technical review:
This piece is indeed a masterpiece in its blend of cartoonist and human-realistic CGI achieved through green screening and body morphing with 3D software. The animation has captured practically perfect human-realistic motion through the combined use of motion capture software and very well observed "ROTOSCOPING-like" of the original actors' performances. This Spielberg film stands as a milestone in CGI films, in a league right next to "Avatar".