Senior Cinematic Designer @Warcraft; gamer, furry, Mage, Druid & gentle soul. If it has a tail in an MMO, I'll play it!๐ป
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Career milestone:
โ Get an "Akira Slide" homage to final picture
It's been years since I'd worked on a patch trailer, but this one was heckin' fun!๐
OH MY LAWD, I love this.
Zack and Jeremiah's work are foundational to why we got a project Miata to learn how to work on cars! Small world, truly great to see them work with us on this. ๐
I wish I'd caught them on campus, woulda been dope!
Here it is! Our animated short featuring Alleria Windrunner - this project was such a joy to work on with so many talented folks. Let me know what you think ๐
@KateMakesStuff Some of the comments boggle my mind, like "yeah but the Asian inter-generational trauma subtext ruined Turning Red"
Like, c'mon... you can relate to a film's message and tone without EVERYTHING having to apply to you, people.
You can even view it through YOUR experience, gasp!
Controversial take? Plenty of literature has been adapted and are regarded as classic films.
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- Jurassic Park
- The Princess Bride
etc... Don't take umbrage with filmmakers, it's a medium; what matters is a great story.
George R.R. Martin calls out producers and screenwriters who change things from the books
"Everywhere you look, there are more screenwriters and producers eager to take great stories and โmake them their own.โ It does not seem to matter whether the source material was written by Stan Lee ... Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, Ursula K. Le Guin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Twain ... Jane Austen, orโฆ well, anyone.ย ย No matter how major a writer it is, no matter how great the book, there always seems to be someone on hand who thinks he can do better, eager to take the story and โimproveโ on it.ย ย โThe book is the book, the film is the film,โ they will tell you, as if they were saying something profound. Then they make the story their own. They never make it better, though. Nine hundred ninety-nine times out of a thousand, they make it worse"
@ChristieGolden I'm sorry all of this had to hit you at once, Christie. It was always a pleasure working on stories with you, and you're a marvelous human being.
I hope our paths cross again one day, because that'd be pretty awesome. ๐