This movie was created by the talented men and women and Laika, a movie company that specializes in stop motion animation movies. Kubo seems to be the company's biggest endeavor yet with the stop motion being blended with a CGI to create an altogether different beast. The movie is also said to have the biggest stop motion puppet to date, as evidence by the skeleton giant in the trailer. The lead producer, Travis Knight was born Hillsboro, Oregon and attended Portland State Universitiy. Since 2005 he has been one of the key members of Laika. The thing that draws me to this movie is how the imagery tells the story. Every image serves to detail the world and story as much as the voice actors do. Another reason, aside from the beautiful blending of CGI and stop motion, is the meaning behind everything. I felt like kids could enjoy it but still older audiences can take valuable lessons on loss and grief. For this reason Kubo is one the most inspiring and beautiful movies to date, and that's hard to come by with all the Hollywood cliche movies. The only thing I had trouble with these intros into 3D printing were the controls. They aren't the greatest of user friendly controls but I managed to overcome this technical difficulty. After a while the controls became almost second nature and I was able to move and shape objects with ease. What I found the most successful about the intros was how simple objects could be used to make rather impressive designs. It almost made me want to go on to make more projects aside for the intros. One thing I would like to make would be miniatures based off movies, games, and pop culture. I think it would be fun to 3D print a knife maybe if I can manage it.
In the piece this bee has decided to take up residence in his little corn barn. I decided to use barn doors and windows because that is where was corn on husks is grown. I thought that this bee had decided to start his own little farm within a humans phone. However making these pieces into a working house was quite a time consuming effort. I used the burned tool to make the windows and door look as if they were built into to the corn, The insides of the windows were burned to simulate shadows. The doors outside edges were also burned to make it a part of the architecture. If I could change anything I would like to change the type of food I used in this piece. If I could redo this I'd like to try pretzel sticks or apples among other interesting choices for edible architecture.
The main problem I had to overcome in this piece is the coloration. The cat picture was shot in a setup while the gorilla had his photo taken in the day. Altering the fur to match the gorilla's was time consuming at most. If I could change this piece in anyway Id like to make it more cat than gorilla. In this piece i altered the cat's fur to match the gorilla's so instead maybe the gorilla's body could have cat fur. My animal is a mutation and is in and exhibit of curious creatures such as this. The species is named the Catrilla. Its cat like attributes combined with its strength make it hard to keep in an enclosure, evading many employees as well. I got this idea because I like the idea of genetic alterations and what wonders, or horrors, that can become of it.
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