I'll be at that September 22 screening after all...
I just bought a spur-of-the-moment bargain-basement ticket to LA so I can attend DANGEROUS VISIONS: ANIMATED SHORTS FOR CONNOISSEURS & GROWN-UPS, which I earlier wrote about here. I got all excited because the 35mm print of Battle of Lanka just came back from the lab, and it looks great. The blues are over-saturated - Rama's skin tone will burn your eyes right out - but that merely adds a "technicolor" surreal quality, and the grain of the film really warms it up. The resolution is superb; there's nary a pixel to be seen. Really, it looks much, much better on film than on DVD, and the compressed little web versions aren't worth comparing. Anyway, I WILL be at the post-screening Q & A, A-ing your Q's, so if you're in LA please please come and watch and say hi.
Friday, September 22, 7:30pm
Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard.
Comments:
Maybe me and the wife can make it to the screening; Would definitely be worth it to see SITA on the big screen! (Jeez-- it's been a long time since I last saw ya, too!)
Are you ever going to sell the final movie on your site on a DVD or something? I hope to see it when it's done--I imagine it will appear in a Toronto animation festival eventually--but, MAN, that is AMAZING animation! It would be good if you could make a little money from it and good for people to see a better version than they can probably get from the Web.
Thanks y'all. The movie should be done by 2008. That may seem like a long time, but for animators it's the blink of an eye. Then it goes to festivals, and hopefully finds a distributor, and maybe if I'm really lucky has a small theatrical run...then it comes out on DVD. Or, if no one wants to distribute it, it'll go straight to DVD and I'll pimp it myself online. Who knows what the future holds?
Hope to see you at the Egyptian, Chris! When we last met I was just a little baby cartoonist and hadn't even started animating yet.
I went to the screening last Friday and I absolutely LOVED the Sitayana. I'm waiting for the movie, telling all my friends about your website. This is good stuff. Thanks!
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