Monday, 5 October 2015

When The Wind Blows -- OUAN403, Animation Skills, Identify

Set during the cold war the story centres on an elderly couple as they attempt to survive nuclear holocaust by following the instructions of a government pamphlet.
I was very impressed by the mix of 2D animation (used for the characters) and 3D models (used for the setting of the inside of their house). This is something I have wanted to try for quite a while and I thought that the film pulled it off very well - I definitely preferred the look of this movie to that of "The Snowman" which attempted to imitate Raymond Briggs' drawing style. Other than this I mostly enjoyed the story, despite finding the two characters (and particularly Hilda) extremely irritating at times. I was glad that the film didn't have a happy ending as all the way through I was dreading a big Hollywood finale where some heroic medics burst in and save the day, maybe things would have been different if the film had been made in the US - certainly the quietly humourous script would have had a different feel to it.

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