I was given no choice of movies for free when I
bought a Proscan DVD. (lame excuse) One of them was
Lost in Space.

    If I may say, even there I saw a sense of drama
better than most all POV animations. Now there is no
excuse for that in any technical sense in that POV is
technically superior to most every screen animation I
have ever seen. (look for shadows, the ultimate test)

    So if I may suggest the difference is thematic.
Movie folks have storytellers who can't even hunt and
peck a keyboard but they are storytellers.

    What brings this to mind is a scene from Lost in
Space where where the good guy shoots the bad guy, the
bad guy blows up, and the good guy flies through the
fireball. And that reminded me of the fireball
animation here. A great animation but no thematic
whole. (no criticism other than artistic critique
intended.) The quality of the explosion animation here
is on the order of the movie. (My comments on the ILM
ring to the contrary. Personally, I think ILM is
gratutious with the ring but people expect it now.
Animator's choice.)

    Similarly, the burning earth animation is better
than Star Trek II and III for the Genesis effect.
Granted that has merit only with the narration giving
it meaning but I mention it as to quality. It is sort
of the same but at least as good or better than.

    Also for the storytellers of Hollywood, there is
cutting and scening. Take for example Stargate, movie
or series. We never see a full screen dialing of all
seven cooridinates. We see full scene, cut to close up
of something moving into place, another close up the
same, draw back to full screen for the splash.

    The limitations of POV animations are not in
technical excellence but in scripting the story.
(Rusty, you always have a story first. Congrats.)

    An animation is a story or as I tried with my first
animation submission entertainment, there a dance,
entertainment vice a story.

        But always what is to be shown comes first. The
story, the storyboarding, the implementation, and
additional storyboarding as implementation can not be
matched with intent. (This is why movies have to be a
joint creative endevour. And that is where Ayn Rand the
screenwriter got her complaints for Roark in The
Fountainhead.)

    I invite comment and perspective to improve
animation efforts.

--
The question is not, "Who will let me do it?"
The question is, "Who will stop me?"

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