Comments on: Beowulf: an animated film with epic discussions!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

And King Kong and LORings didn’t use more keyframing than Beowulf? There was more art in both those films than anywhere in Beowulf. Only my opinion, of course. At least those two films didn’t LOOK ugly.

By: Floyd Bishop

Floyd Bishop — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

There was much more keyframing in “Beowulf” than in one of the “Lord of the Rings” films or in “King Kong”, mostly due to the number of characters. There is no way to know for sure, but from what I understand of the workflow, I am certain there are more keyframes in “Beowulf”, but it’s obviously not about that. For example, “Bee Movie” used no motion capture, and I had no interest in that film.

By: Michael Sporn

Michael Sporn — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

It’s a special effect film. I cry foul when people call it animation and compare it with the likes of Ratatouille and Persepolis.

By: Floyd Bishop

Floyd Bishop — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I would argue that there was quite a bit of keyframed animation in there as well, far too much to label it as an FX film, in my opinion. I would reserve that label for films like “Transfomers”, “King Kong”, and “Lord of the Rings” films.