{"id":367,"date":"2007-11-30T20:26:53","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T03:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=367"},"modified":"2007-11-30T20:26:53","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T03:26:53","slug":"new-media-polar-express-animation-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/11\/new-media-polar-express-animation-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW MEDIA: Polar Express &#8211; Animation Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span>&#8217;m watching <a href=\"http:\/\/pdl.warnerbros.com\/wbmovies\/polarexpress\/flashsite\/\">Polar Express<\/a> and am rather fascinated by the animation.&nbsp; It does bring some questions to mind though.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how this was put&nbsp; together, but it is often the process of having the real actors do the scenes, then place the movements into animation to make them more realistic.&nbsp; I mean, these are great&#8211;very lifelike.<\/p>\n<p>But why, even though athese animated people look suspiciously alike&#8211;just like the game characters&#8211;there&#8217;s a certain something that is very similar in every animation, as if either the same artist drew them all or the same software used in the transformation.&nbsp; Except of course, for the conductor, who is a very good likeness to Tom Hanks.&nbsp; But what&#8217;s the magic of animation?&nbsp; Why not just use the real Tom Hanks?<\/p>\n<p>The eagle bringing the train ticket to his nest is incredible, though.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Will be checking out the website as I watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span>&#8217;m watching Polar Express and am rather fascinated by the animation.&nbsp; It does bring some questions to mind though. I&#8217;m not sure how this was put&nbsp; together, but it is often the process of having the real actors do the scenes, then place the movements into animation to make them more realistic.&nbsp; I mean, these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}