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DreamWorks/Aardman: Flushed Away

Hello, Ladies and Gentlepersons.

AWN publisher Dan Sarto has asked me to drop a quick note in the forums to let y'all know (in case you have not yet seen) that a special FLUSHED AWAY mini-site has been put up with videos and images and exclusive, behind-the-scenes articles from the animation supervisors, directors, et al.

More videos and articles should be going up in the coming weeks. You can enjoy all of the goodness by visiting ... here.

Please do take a moment to swing by! Also, feel free to use this thread to post your comments about the movie. I saw a screening a few weeks ago. It was, in a word, entertaining.

FLUSHED AWAY opens in theaters (at least in North America) on November 3.

I saw a screening a few weeks ago. It was, in a word, entertaining.

That's not exactly a rave review, but I appreciate your honesty.
In a year full of mediocre 3D movies, I'll be really disappointed if this one is as bad as all the others.

The best animated feature I saw this year was A Scanner Darkly, which I'd hardly even classify as animated. "Illustrated movie" seems more accurate.

Calarts students saw a free screening of this movie a few weeks ago. Nobody was too excited for it. I know I never really heard about it until I saw an ad on TV a little while ago.

Even though I wasn't too excited for it, it wasn't as bad as I was anticipating. I was expecting something terrible, but it was actually relatively good. I give it 7 out of 10 stars.

-moot

I'm probably gonna go see it. It doesn't look bad. Who knows, maybe I'll like it.
I'm just not dieing to see it and probably wouldn't be devestated if I didn't.
James :cool:

I checked the site once I started seeing banners for it above the forums here. The preview site shows a way more entertaining movie than the trailers do. It's on my list.

Recent 3D productions

Hello.

I have seen the ads on all the recent 3D animated films and I have to say- the design looks all the same for all the films. No one film seems to really hit me from a design standpoint. It's almost as though they could be sequels of each other...maybe its me.

All of theses films have cute characters and some good stories. Folks need to push the design elements more...animation has so much potential.

Thanks.

Hey Larry! I have a strong interest in character design but information is hard to come by, so it seems like an observation like yours is a good opportunity for a learning experience -- what are some examples of similarity in design that struck you in particular?

So animation should be more than just a cup, it should be something like this.
Oh if you can not see it, it is a turtle.

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Today I saw "Flushed Away" and this is a must see movie. Very Funny and well made movie by Aardman. Aardman is also responsible for the television series "Code Lyoko". I know that a only a hand full of people would know this but Aardman is a French man and in this feature there are some classic funny shots at the French.

As for the animation of the characters, it was not liquid smooth but it worked for this movie. Characters came off as tho they were being shot on 2's but this impression of 2's only appeard when a character was talking.

The color pallet was the best that I seen in a long time, with a rich range of colors and shades working in perfect hormony. The move from light to dark stood up through out the whole feature. By this I mean there were no blacks or washed out white scenes. The characters and their background were keeped visble as the action move from scene to scene.

I hope that all of you go and see this movie while it is in the theaters.

Today I saw "Flushed Away" and this is a must see movie. Very Funny and well made movie by Aardman. Aardman is also responsible for the television series "Code Lyoko". I know that a only a hand full of people would know this but Aardman is a French man and in this feature there are some classic funny shots at the French.

As for the animation of the characters, it was not liquid smooth but it worked for this movie. Characters came off as tho they were being shot on 2's but this impression of 2's only appeard when a character was talking.

The color pallet was the best that I seen in a long time, with a rich range of colors and shades working in perfect hormony. The move from light to dark stood up through out the whole feature. By this I mean there were no blacks or washed out white scenes. The characters and their background were keeped visble as the action move from scene to scene.

I hope that all of you go and see this movie while it is in the theaters.

Umm, I'm not sure if you're being facetious or not, but Aardman is the English animation firm famous for the Wallace & Gromit films and the Creature Comforts shorts. They also produced the movie Chicken Run, and most of their output is stop-action. Code Lyoko is done by a French animation company called Antefilms.

Flushed Away was a joint effort between Aardman and Dreamworks.

Great film

I don't understand the weak reviews of this movie. I took my family and neighbors to see it. We all laughed out loud from beginning to end. This is the funniest movie I've seen in years!

The commercials do not do it justice. This is one flat-out histerical movie! There are more jokes per minute than any other movie I can remember.

See it soon as our opening week(s) dollars help promote our own industry and careers!

Mark Simon

Same here. I expected to come in here and hear people gushing about this film. The chilly reception has me floored. W&G was missing something, but with this film not tied into characters limited by what we already know about them, it really went all out. Compare that to the trailer they showed of "Happily Never After" and it's like they're from different planets. I did NOT like what I saw of that. It looks like it was rendered on an Xbox 360.

in general, does anyone think that there are too many animated films coming out every year?

Same here. I expected to come in here and hear people gushing about this film. The chilly reception has me floored. W&G was missing something, but with this film not tied into characters limited by what we already know about them, it really went all out. Compare that to the trailer they showed of "Happily Never After" and it's like they're from different planets. I did NOT like what I saw of that. It looks like it was rendered on an Xbox 360.

Happily N'Ever After has a rather painful production history, judging from what I've heard. Suffice it to say that in 2002, my schoolmates and I were given discarded material from it to practise on - it was originally meant to be a classically animated feature and production efforts in that direction were well underway, with finished designs and model sheets existing and preliminary, top quality ruff animation done by former Disney artists.
Some time after that, the moneybags must've seen Shrek 2 and pulled the plug big time - Hahn Film, a renowned German animation studio, had to turn the whole artistic concept around, eventually failed and Happily N'Ever After started its odyssee from 3D studio to 3D studio, bankrupting at least two in the process. (That's also hearsay but I'm prepared to believe it.)

Hello.

I have seen the ads on all the recent 3D animated films and I have to say- the design looks all the same for all the films. No one film seems to really hit me from a design standpoint. It's almost as though they could be sequels of each other...maybe its me.

All of theses films have cute characters and some good stories. Folks need to push the design elements more...animation has so much potential.

Thanks.

I hear you! I lost interest in "The Ant Bully" as soon as I saw some of the ant character models. Not a far cry from the ones seen in "Antz" at all.

As for Flushed Away, of course I had/have misgivings about its hybrid 3D/claymation look. Even though I tend to quickly write off animated features that pull comparable pranks, what I've seen in the trailers didn't put me off. The characters seem nice enough and there are a couple of snappy gags in the trailers already. The fact the whole thing looks like one of Aardman's "classic" clay pieces shouldn't mean it's automatically an anathema to involve computer-assisted animation.
I'll give that one a chance. Aardman commands more respect in my little world than DreamWorks.

As for Flushed Away, of course I had/have misgivings about its hybrid 3D/claymation look. Even though I tend to quickly write off animated features that pull comparable pranks, what I've seen in the trailers didn't put me off. The characters seem nice enough and there are a couple of snappy gags in the trailers already. The fact the whole thing looks like one of Aardman's "classic" clay pieces shouldn't mean it's automatically an anathema to involve computer-assisted animation.
I'll give that one a chance. Aardman commands more respect in my little world than DreamWorks.

I had misgivings about "Flushed Away" also but I was in need of something to lift my spirits. You will see text books matteral done will and is not that what we all wont as a minimum for our dollar? The movie moves well with no dead spots.

As for the "Happy N'ever After" I am not going to that even if they paid me. I just saw the clip...

What was the name of that Red Ridinghood movie this past spring, Hoodwinked?

Two thumbs up here! One from me, one from my 9yo son. The writing was clever and the delivery was perfect. It had all the warmth of claymation in a CG format. And in typical British manner, "Flushed Away" takes on a different meaning toward the end of the film. Good stuff. A bit of redemption for the sad CG feature length films of 2006.

There is this FANTASTIC scene with a mime and a cell phone that is so smart, so complicated, yet so easy to follow. Bravo!

Plenty of nods to Nemo, Madagascar, WereRabbits, even Gromit.

Go see it - you won't be disappointed.
If for nothing else - the slugs.

"Flushed Away" articles, where are they? Maybe I have missed something but there is only one articles and it was an interesting one but I would like something with more technical information.

You can see a clip of the Mime scene on the Flushed Away mini-site that we have put together.

In the right-hand column of that site, you'll see links to some short interviews there. Other Flushed Away articles in: Animation World Magazine and VFXWorld.com.

Umm, I'm not sure if you're being facetious or not, but Aardman is the English animation firm famous for the Wallace & Gromit films and the Creature Comforts shorts. They also produced the movie Chicken Run, and most of their output is stop-action. Code Lyoko is done by a French animation company called Antefilms.

Flushed Away was a joint effort between Aardman and Dreamworks.

Sorry about that so my memory is bad. I remember that there are two French brothers who run a studio and I thought their last name was Aardman. Well anyway, the movie is very enjoyable. No matter who you are I am sure you will like this movie.

Looking forward to seeing it soon.

I don't belive Aardman had anything to do with Code Lyoko. That was produced by the French studios Antefilms, and MoonScoop. Aardman is the studio behind Chicken Run and the Wallace and Gromit shorts and movie.

It does look like an interesting movie. The story sound ok, but I'm more interested in looking at how they animated it. It does look like it's animated on twos insted of the typical ones of CG. It looks like it gives it that stop motion look. I think I'll see it next weekend.

Aloha,
the Ape

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