A couple of Wednesday evening's ago I went to the cinema.
'Wow, so what' I hear you say (in my head). But this was no ordinary cinema trip though... it was an experience.
I've seen a fair few films at the cinema that have blown me away over the years, but nothing quite as amazing as the film I saw on that Wednesday.
I went to see Disney's Zootropolis.
Also known as Zootopia in some other countries... I don't know why, although I'm sure there's probably some ridiculous reason.
Anyway, this weekend I went to see it for a second time - it's a rarety for me to want to pay to see a film twice, but I would honestly pay to see it a few more times, because it's amazing.
Both times I saw Zootropolis I lost count of the times the animation, and the absolutely stunning rendered landscapes made my eyes well up out of sheer astonishment. My poor little mind just couldn't quite compute how something so incredible was able to be created.
Animation has come a long long way since I was a kid.
Is it even possible to get any better?!
I'm an illustrator, and have occasionally dabbled with 2D animation, and I can honestly say, I don't think I have the patience to get in to animation properly... the amount of time and effort that goes in to each second is numbing on so many levels, and I can't even begin to think how many hours must have been spent on the animation in Disney's 55th animated feature film, even WITH all the help of modern technology. Then you've got scenery and background characters. My goodness, there's a tonne of them in this film, and when I buy it (it will be my first Blu-Ray purchase ever, yeah I know, that's old-hat now!) I plan to sit and go through it frame by frame.
Buuuuh.
You know what? I wanted to write a really in depth blog about this film and animation in general, but I'm still so blown away by this film I really can't find words to express how amazing it is in so many ways.
So let's just say, you must go and see it. You'll love it for any of a billion reasons, whether it's the animation itself, the great story line, or the contemporary universal message.
I'm so busy at the moment I've barely got time to breathe, let alone write a blog (that nobody will read anyway) but hopefully one day I'll be able to come back to this.
Zootropolis, for me, was an experience - and much like one of the messages in the film; that you can do anything, or be anything you want to be, it makes me so happy to see that the dream I once had as a kid (to be a cartoonist) now offers so many more possibilities in terms of what can be achieved in animation.
Does that even make sense?! No idea. I know what I'm trying to say.
Rating this film a 7 out of 7 wouldn't do it justice.
I'll be long dead before I achieve anything on the scale of awesomeness of this film.
