Thursday, November 1, 2012

Blur is Also a Transformer

Eat your hearts out, ladies.

Being a huge sci-fi fan, I was pretty surprised and excited to see Rockfish in class on Tuesday. Later that day, I heard about Lucas Arts getting bought by Disney, and in one of the reaction videos I saw online someone mentioned Blur Studios and their involvement in some Star Wars animation.

Blur was responsible for the animated trailers for the Star Wars: the Old Republic computer game. The skills they display in those animations are nothing short of amazing, and it isn’t the only big-name exposure they’ve gotten. They did work in James Cameron’s Avatar and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, as well as another Star Wars game, The Force Unleashed II. These guys have some chops, as both Rockfish and their advertising and film work has shown.
Back to Rockfish, however. While it doesn’t really have many themes, morals, or undertones behind it like many other videos Professor Leeper has shown us, it is still an excellent animation to just sit back and enjoy. Still, while I enjoyed it (and I believe most of the rest of the class did, as well), it seems somewhat odd compared to everything else Leeper has shown in class. It’s a simple adventure tale without any kind of special message or theme; it’s just a space fisherman who fishes for giant rock worms with the most elaborate fishing equipment ever devised.
Is it possible that Leeper is slipping? I mean, just showing us eye candy?

2 comments:

  1. So I'm not the only one who thought of Blurr the Transformer when he mentioned the studio name? I'm happy ^__^

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  2. I checked into Blur after class on Tues. and loved what I found. If you ask me, that's the way to tell a story. Love Blur's stuff.

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