![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Happy Glue Year
Jan. 3rd, 2006 12:17 pmWe had a very low-impact new year's. We went up to the (rented-out in summer, but vacant and full of dead bugs in winter) house of some guy my dad's friends with, in Maine. We cooked some stuff, and Animal Crossing supplied fireworks and everything.
But anyhow, the thing I wanted to mark was that we saw some fluffy special on Aardman Animations, and for the first time I got to see moving footage of Nick Park. It's impossible to see it in stills, but his facial expressions are AWESOME. Not one by one, but you can see the seeds of big ovoid mouth with giant teeth as he moves his face to talk. I RECOGNISED him by knowing what his characters look like. It's normal for animators to use themselves as models for expressions, but I had no idea it would be so pronounced. It also helps that he has enormous protruding front teeth, which sort of fill in the mental gap to some extent, but the cognitive blend can take place regardless. It's just the awesomest thing I've seen in a long time. I love it when people look like their art, and this is even more amusing than usual.
But anyhow, the thing I wanted to mark was that we saw some fluffy special on Aardman Animations, and for the first time I got to see moving footage of Nick Park. It's impossible to see it in stills, but his facial expressions are AWESOME. Not one by one, but you can see the seeds of big ovoid mouth with giant teeth as he moves his face to talk. I RECOGNISED him by knowing what his characters look like. It's normal for animators to use themselves as models for expressions, but I had no idea it would be so pronounced. It also helps that he has enormous protruding front teeth, which sort of fill in the mental gap to some extent, but the cognitive blend can take place regardless. It's just the awesomest thing I've seen in a long time. I love it when people look like their art, and this is even more amusing than usual.
