You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video Tex Avery - Lucky Ducky (1948). Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

>> ^swampgirl:

fixed


Not anymore! *dead -- "This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated..."

tex avery was the best!

My personal take: the problem with CGI and 3D anmiation (and it's only been exacerbated by the new trend in 3D moviemaking) is it gives the director too much control. Regarding camera placement, instead of employing traditional camera movement, now that in can be placed anywhere, it has been. We get these rollercoaster spins, pans, trucks and zooms that completely disorient the viewer. In "Tron Legacy", do I really need to see the light cycles in profile, hovering only 2 inches off the ground going 100mph to the right, only to vault over the bike and sweep around to the back of it to showcase another light cycle entering the fray? No. Just because you can place the camera inside someone's butt crack doesn't mean you should.

And with CGI, it gives the director too much leeway in exaggerating scale, movement and proportions. Perfect example: In Stephen Sommers remake of "The Mummy" Imhotep screams and his mouth artificially elongates. If you watch earlier in the film, it does so but only slightly, imparting a sense of the supernatural. But by the end of the film, his screams become so overly done, it comes across as comic and bufoonish, as if I was watching a Tex Avery cartoon. That's OK to do in Jim Carrey's "The Mask" because it calls for it. But not in "The Mummy", nor in "I Am Legend". The vampires in "I Am Legend" aren't threatening, they're evil monster meets Stretch Armstrong.

I like Aronofsky's approach to CGI: Use it as sparingly as you can, and only as a last resort.

Hubba Hubba! Aoooogaahhhhhh! *and every other sound the wolf makes in Tex Avery's 'Red Hot Riding Hood'*

You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video Sh-h-h-h-h! - Tex Avery (1955). Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

Huzzah poster of my favorite sift!! http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Cat-That-Hated-People-Tex-Avery

These are fixed. Thanks for the hard work.
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Sure. Anything Tex Avery related is an automatic upvote, as far as I'm concerned.

In reply to this comment by therealblankman:
The Tex Avery television video you upvoted was a dupe. How about a little vote love for the first post? http://www.videosift.com/video/The-TV-of-the-Future-Tex-Avery

The Tex Avery television video you upvoted was a dupe. How about a little vote love for the first post? http://www.videosift.com/video/The-TV-of-the-Future-Tex-Avery

The Tex Avery television video you upvoted was a dupe. How about a little vote love for the first post? http://www.videosift.com/video/The-TV-of-the-Future-Tex-Avery

The Tex Avery television video you upvoted was a dupe. How about a little vote love for the first post? http://www.videosift.com/video/The-TV-of-the-Future-Tex-Avery

The Tex Avery television video you upvoted was a dupe. How about a little vote love for the first post? http://www.videosift.com/video/The-TV-of-the-Future-Tex-Avery

Dupe *discard... http://www.videosift.com/video/The-TV-of-the-Future-Tex-Avery

This is the Little Rural Riding Hood cartoon mentioned. I'd submit it myself, but "Embedding disabled by request" sigh...

edit Now available on the sift, thanks to firefly.