So my last post was to inform peeps of DA gallery links for artists and directors whose work we know, but may not necessarily know the name behind the work.
One of the links was to the DA gallery of Sam Liu.
I commented on one of his submissions on DeviantArt and... he replied! He took the time out of his life to reply to something I said XD I was so excited to see his message in my DA inbox.
Now, many people may think celebrities are untouchable snooty booties, however many of them live their lives similarly to anyone else; they do their work and maintain their humility. So it's not that it's a shock that I got a reply. It's an honor.
Luckily, from my field of study (video and animation) every once in a while I'll meet someone famous, or rather their work is famous but not necessarily their face. In my opinion this is the best kind of fame. Take Spongebob/Tom Kenny for example. Most everyone knows Spongebob, but if you saw Tom Kenny (voice of Spongebob) walking down the street you most likely wouldn't recognize him. He can live his life as normally as he wants while still being part of one of the USA's biggest media sensations.
Anyway, if there's a person whose work you admire and you have something you wish you could tell him/her, you should try to do it. Worst this that could happen is they don't reply. Or they reply and tell you you suck and should go die. But that's most likely not going to happen.
For the most part they also really like to heard your encouraging words.
Thank you, Sam Liu, for making my day :)
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Monday, November 12, 2012
Yo Dawg, I heard you like stuff...
Every so often I'll come across the gallery of person I don't know but whose work I do know. Thought I'd share some of those people's galleries with you.
Lauren Montgomery
You may know her as the director of the 2009 animated Wonder Woman film, and 2011's Batman:Year One. However, she is also an artist!
Here are her blogs: This Sucks, and LMU Animators
Sam Liu
Co-director of Batman:Year One with Lauren Montgomery. Also director of All-Star Superman, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths and more.
Ki Hyun Ryu
This name may ring a bell if you read my Nightwing Thoughts entry and saw the awesome character design at the top. Ki Hyun Ryu is the gentleman who did that. He's an animator at Nickelodeon (omg Nickelodeon yayayaaaay!) and also one of Korra's directors. Here's his blog (which has been stagnant for a long time...): blacksataguni
Phil Bourassa
I've linked to his DA before, but here it is again. He's one of Young Justice's character designers. Yes, he's part of the awesomeness. He's also a character designer for Crisis on Two Earths. Made to order YJ figures Bourassa linked to from his DA.
Lauren Montgomery
You may know her as the director of the 2009 animated Wonder Woman film, and 2011's Batman:Year One. However, she is also an artist!
Here are her blogs: This Sucks, and LMU Animators
Sam Liu
Co-director of Batman:Year One with Lauren Montgomery. Also director of All-Star Superman, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths and more.
Ki Hyun Ryu
This name may ring a bell if you read my Nightwing Thoughts entry and saw the awesome character design at the top. Ki Hyun Ryu is the gentleman who did that. He's an animator at Nickelodeon (omg Nickelodeon yayayaaaay!) and also one of Korra's directors. Here's his blog (which has been stagnant for a long time...): blacksataguni
Phil Bourassa
I've linked to his DA before, but here it is again. He's one of Young Justice's character designers. Yes, he's part of the awesomeness. He's also a character designer for Crisis on Two Earths. Made to order YJ figures Bourassa linked to from his DA.
Monday, October 29, 2012
All-Star Superman
All-Star Superman (2011)
Directed by Sam Liu
Superman is awesome. He's an incorruptible force of good. I bet him, Jesus, Buddha, and Obi-Wan would be bffs given the chance.
So we open with Superman doing his regular super thing, saving people: he's flying practically into the sun to rescue the first manned flight to the sun because one of the scientists on board has gone nuts from being controlled by Lex Luthor back on Earth.
Of course Superman saves Dr. Quitum and the other crew that Luthor hadn't yet killed with his puppet. However, Luthor being the actually intelligent villian that he is, has just done this as part of a long term plan to kill Superman.
Being so close to the sun has basically over-charged Superman and his cells are exploding. He's dying (I don't believe the movie ever actually says how much time passes, but from what I understand it's supposed to be about a year between the Sun rescue and the end).
So there's a bunch of awesome little adventures that Superman has for his last year, the most memorable probably being a super day with Super Lois. As a gift to Lois, Superman created a serum that will give the consumer all of Superman's powers minus vulnerabilities for 24 hours (he also makes her a cute super outfit too). They have an awesome day, though I don't think Lois really needed to be so flirtatious with the time travelers than pop in to try to win her away from Superman.
Anyway, in prison Luthor is sent to the chair. For his last wish he asks for a special cocktail. They then flip the switch and fry him.
Or so they thought. Dun dun duuuhhhh!!!
The cocktail Lex had was the same as Lois had previously received. He breaks out of prison to have one final battle with Superman. Before the two fight, Lex has asked 'friend' Solaris, a giant sun eater of sorts to mess with the Sun, sending out red solar energy, so Superman goes to take care of that first.
Superman comes back to Earth for the next fight. Superman shoots Lex with a gravity gun, ending Luthor's 24 hour super day early. However his time with those powers leaves him enlightened and wanting to save the world. Unfortunately he has to got back to prison for his crimes, PLUS before Solaris was defeated, he foiled with the Sun, putting it in a dying state as well.
Unlike Superman though, the sun is 'under-charged' while Superman is 'over-charged'. For his last deed he kisses Lois, professes his eternal love for her, then flies into the Sun, just in time for him to more or less explode, giving the Sun back the power it needs to continue to support life on Earth.
Time passes and we see Lois in a park. She's approached, 'He's not coming back.'
She replies something to the effect of 'No, he's just fixing the Sun. He'll be back when he's done.'
In prison Lex passes notes to a visiting Dr. Quintum. They're for creating baby supermen. 'They always wanted children.'
Back in the Sun, Superman has become a 'solar being' and is working on... Sun stuff I guess.
Thank you, Superman.
Yes, I cried.
So, have you seen Handsome Face, you know, the meme(Superman/Batman: Apocalypse from 2010)? Well All-Star Superman's Superman is very reminiscent of Handsom Face Superman. I would attribute the similarities to the fact that Sam Lie directed All-Star Superman and was a character designer for Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (a lot of the crew worked on both animations, but I think that one is key).
I did not read the comics this is based on, and trying to fit 12 issues into 1 movie can be tricky. In other words, the pacing was kind of weird in the movie, where as if I had read the comics beforehand I wouldn't have been so confused at some parts. Mainly Lois' paranoia seems to come out of no where and I found myself speaking out loud when she shot Superman, "HGBEOIJGPOTBHNBLVMF FIOCJ0UHBD0 Y???!!!!!"
The other part where things were awkward was when Superman fell back to Earth when just before that he was saying 'I've found a suitable planet for this tiny city and its inhabitants that I've been keeping in my layer thus far. I'm going to go drop them off, however it'll take so long to get to this place that I may not be able to make it back to Earth to see you ever again, Lois. You know, since I'm dying and all." I just found that to not fit well because there wasn't really anything between Superman saying goodbye to him returning to indicate time had passed. When he crash landed I thought at first he had crashed on the planet where he was dropping off dat tiny city.
dem lipz son (image from http://irfree.net/threads/391363-All-Star-Superman-%282011%29-%E2%80%93-1080p-%E2%80%93-500MB)
Directed by Sam Liu
Superman is awesome. He's an incorruptible force of good. I bet him, Jesus, Buddha, and Obi-Wan would be bffs given the chance.
So we open with Superman doing his regular super thing, saving people: he's flying practically into the sun to rescue the first manned flight to the sun because one of the scientists on board has gone nuts from being controlled by Lex Luthor back on Earth.
Of course Superman saves Dr. Quitum and the other crew that Luthor hadn't yet killed with his puppet. However, Luthor being the actually intelligent villian that he is, has just done this as part of a long term plan to kill Superman.
Being so close to the sun has basically over-charged Superman and his cells are exploding. He's dying (I don't believe the movie ever actually says how much time passes, but from what I understand it's supposed to be about a year between the Sun rescue and the end).
So there's a bunch of awesome little adventures that Superman has for his last year, the most memorable probably being a super day with Super Lois. As a gift to Lois, Superman created a serum that will give the consumer all of Superman's powers minus vulnerabilities for 24 hours (he also makes her a cute super outfit too). They have an awesome day, though I don't think Lois really needed to be so flirtatious with the time travelers than pop in to try to win her away from Superman.
Anyway, in prison Luthor is sent to the chair. For his last wish he asks for a special cocktail. They then flip the switch and fry him.
Or so they thought. Dun dun duuuhhhh!!!
The cocktail Lex had was the same as Lois had previously received. He breaks out of prison to have one final battle with Superman. Before the two fight, Lex has asked 'friend' Solaris, a giant sun eater of sorts to mess with the Sun, sending out red solar energy, so Superman goes to take care of that first.
Superman comes back to Earth for the next fight. Superman shoots Lex with a gravity gun, ending Luthor's 24 hour super day early. However his time with those powers leaves him enlightened and wanting to save the world. Unfortunately he has to got back to prison for his crimes, PLUS before Solaris was defeated, he foiled with the Sun, putting it in a dying state as well.
Unlike Superman though, the sun is 'under-charged' while Superman is 'over-charged'. For his last deed he kisses Lois, professes his eternal love for her, then flies into the Sun, just in time for him to more or less explode, giving the Sun back the power it needs to continue to support life on Earth.
Time passes and we see Lois in a park. She's approached, 'He's not coming back.'
She replies something to the effect of 'No, he's just fixing the Sun. He'll be back when he's done.'
In prison Lex passes notes to a visiting Dr. Quintum. They're for creating baby supermen. 'They always wanted children.'
Back in the Sun, Superman has become a 'solar being' and is working on... Sun stuff I guess.
Thank you, Superman.
Yes, I cried.
So, have you seen Handsome Face, you know, the meme(Superman/Batman: Apocalypse from 2010)? Well All-Star Superman's Superman is very reminiscent of Handsom Face Superman. I would attribute the similarities to the fact that Sam Lie directed All-Star Superman and was a character designer for Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (a lot of the crew worked on both animations, but I think that one is key).
I did not read the comics this is based on, and trying to fit 12 issues into 1 movie can be tricky. In other words, the pacing was kind of weird in the movie, where as if I had read the comics beforehand I wouldn't have been so confused at some parts. Mainly Lois' paranoia seems to come out of no where and I found myself speaking out loud when she shot Superman, "HGBEOIJGPOTBHNBLVMF FIOCJ0UHBD0 Y???!!!!!"
The other part where things were awkward was when Superman fell back to Earth when just before that he was saying 'I've found a suitable planet for this tiny city and its inhabitants that I've been keeping in my layer thus far. I'm going to go drop them off, however it'll take so long to get to this place that I may not be able to make it back to Earth to see you ever again, Lois. You know, since I'm dying and all." I just found that to not fit well because there wasn't really anything between Superman saying goodbye to him returning to indicate time had passed. When he crash landed I thought at first he had crashed on the planet where he was dropping off dat tiny city.
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