Avatar the Last Mold Bender:

Bryan Konietzko & Michael Dante Dimartino Creaters of Avatar the Last Airbender







I have just finished viewing the first season of Avatar on DVD. I am a big fan and even more so when I get to view it back to back.



TV seems to be the last true strong hold of 2D Animation. But most of that is Flash Animation. And flash is flat not because of style choices like UPA but because it is digital cut out stop notion animation. It is one thing to decide on a flat look and design esthetic, it is another to forced into it by the software.



The subject matter should dictate the look of an animation. Far too often I fear the show look and feel is determined by the software.




The mega-cool thing with Avatar is that it is a story about a character out of time that is very well done is a long missed style of another time, full 2-D Board Animation just isn`t happening anymore.

The Avatar animation staff are learning how to do martial arts because they are animating martial arts. What a strange old fashion concept.




Bryan Konietzko & Michael Dante Dimartino are my new heros. Great job guys. Keep it coming.