Comments on: CHILDHOOD REVISITED – AN AMERICAN TAIL http://www.totalmediabridge.com/childhood-revisited-an-american-tail/ Bridging the gap among all forms of entertainment! Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:32:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kjohnson1585 http://www.totalmediabridge.com/childhood-revisited-an-american-tail/comment-page-1/#comment-147 kjohnson1585 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:41:09 +0000 http://www.totalmediabridge.com/?p=167#comment-147 Heidi All good points, especially the last one. Despite those narrative and animation flaws, it still has a watchability about it that's truly engaging. Animators who admire Bluth should be at the very least aware of his mistakes here. And I had no idea the mouse-monster was rotoscoped. Wonder what they worked off of - a cheesy animatronic model? Heidi

All good points, especially the last one. Despite those narrative and animation flaws, it still has a watchability about it that’s truly engaging. Animators who admire Bluth should be at the very least aware of his mistakes here.

And I had no idea the mouse-monster was rotoscoped. Wonder what they worked off of – a cheesy animatronic model?

]]> By: Heidi http://www.totalmediabridge.com/childhood-revisited-an-american-tail/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Heidi Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:23:09 +0000 http://www.totalmediabridge.com/?p=167#comment-146 You forgot to mention the abundance of rotoscoped animation, including the creepy-as-hell giant mouse at the end (terrified me as a kid, and after watching it recently, STILL is absolutely terrifying). Also, bluth could create amazing environments, like the (once again, creepy-as-hell) house of weird, but after creating part of it would just use a watercolor wash as the rest of the background. Then there's fievel washing up on to the torch of the statue of liberty . . . which is clearly shown in the next scene as way above where any wave but a tsunami would reach. Or the fact that the cat gang leader has to be the smallest cat ever to disguise himself as a rat (he is shown barely larger than Fievel in the beginning of the movie) but is a full-sized cat later on. (nevermind the size differences, I'm pretty sure none of the animators had ever seen a cat before in their lives. They all looked like pug-nosed wolves). There were disappearing objects (and babies), historical inaccuracies, and the whole thing felt like the animators (and storytellers) didn't remember what they had done from one week to the next. All that being said, its still a movie that I watched over and over again in my childhood, and will probably always hold a special place for me. You forgot to mention the abundance of rotoscoped animation, including the creepy-as-hell giant mouse at the end (terrified me as a kid, and after watching it recently, STILL is absolutely terrifying). Also, bluth could create amazing environments, like the (once again, creepy-as-hell) house of weird, but after creating part of it would just use a watercolor wash as the rest of the background. Then there’s fievel washing up on to the torch of the statue of liberty . . . which is clearly shown in the next scene as way above where any wave but a tsunami would reach. Or the fact that the cat gang leader has to be the smallest cat ever to disguise himself as a rat (he is shown barely larger than Fievel in the beginning of the movie) but is a full-sized cat later on. (nevermind the size differences, I’m pretty sure none of the animators had ever seen a cat before in their lives. They all looked like pug-nosed wolves). There were disappearing objects (and babies), historical inaccuracies, and the whole thing felt like the animators (and storytellers) didn’t remember what they had done from one week to the next.

All that being said, its still a movie that I watched over and over again in my childhood, and will probably always hold a special place for me.

]]> By: The Secret of NIMH - Revisited Review | TOTAL MEDIA BRIDGE! http://www.totalmediabridge.com/childhood-revisited-an-american-tail/comment-page-1/#comment-77 The Secret of NIMH - Revisited Review | TOTAL MEDIA BRIDGE! Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:07:19 +0000 http://www.totalmediabridge.com/?p=167#comment-77 [...] that inspires many an animator in the field, aspiring or veteran. While I previously vented my surprise over my disappointment of An American Tail, I at least acknowledged that his animation did indeed “work” somehow. I did come up [...] [...] that inspires many an animator in the field, aspiring or veteran. While I previously vented my surprise over my disappointment of An American Tail, I at least acknowledged that his animation did indeed “work” somehow. I did come up [...]

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