Intellectual Child Abuse

A couple of weeks back I looked on with horror as the Sunday LA Times recounted Jackson and Spielberg in their preparations to assault a beloved fictional little boy. There is no Social Service protection for Intellectual Property.

When I was making a living in Corporate I sat next to a lady who loved Lotus 1,2,3. I mean loved Lotus 1,2,3 in an unnatural and unhealthy way. She used it for everything. Things that it was not meant for, word processing, posters and display art, spread sheets, graphs everything she wanted to do, she did in Lotus.

Tin Tin in CGI with motion capture? Gods help us. Even with Toon Shading, if they are smart enough to use it, Gods still help us.

What can I say about Spielberg and Jackson? They were both better Filmmakers before they became wildly successful Hollywood Mega Hit Moviemakers. I will take Duel and The Frighteners over E.T. and Lord of the Rings any day of the week. And King Kong, all I can say is that Jackson didn`t try to drowned Rick Baker and then give Baker`s credit and Oscar to an Italian Effects hack like Dino did. His movie was not King Kong, the tragic story of an Ape, it was the story of a girl who hangs out with a giant ape and lots of cool effects animation.

This isn`t just another animation person going postal about Motion Capture, Jackson does Motion Capture right with a whole crew of animators cleaning up after the computer (even if they don`t get any press about their work). This is about taking a project that cries out for loving Hand Drawn Animation in 2-D and running it through Lotus 1,2,3 because that is what you do with everything. Gods protect us from successful cineplex mega hitmakers who send everything through their established animation pipeline like a meat grinder.