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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780738920214
Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0738920215
Label: Sony Wonder (Video)
Manufacturer: Sony Wonder (Video)
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Sony Wonder (Video)
Release Date: March 02, 1999
Running Time: 1 minutes
Sales Rank: 95078
Studio: Sony Wonder (Video)
Theatrical Release Date: 1997
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Only a few of the shorts, commercials, and student films in this anthology actually tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end. Made for Sesame Street, 'Light and Heavy' puts an idea across simply and clearly, while preserving the personalities of the lamps from the award-winning 'Luxo, Jr.' 'Juju Shampoo' spoofs hair-care ads and showcases a then-new technique for rendering hair. 'Time for Love,' a tale of affections lost and won, displays a genuine charm that is all too rare in computer animation. In each case, the creators used the medium to express an idea, rather than allowing the computer to dictate the look and content of the film.
In contrast, 'Dreamaker' features shimmering surfaces that suggest Tiffany glass, but it remains an exercise in technique. 'Fan-tasy' tries very hard to copy 'Luxo,' but the animation lacks the nuances that brought the lamps to life. In 'Tosio,' the gargoyle atop a walking stick literally coughs its lungs out--although the entrails look like plastic, the effect is sophmoric at best. The crashingly unfunny 'Dutch Nelson, Galaxy Guy' is a trailer for a nonexistent film--an idea many students entertain, but usually outgrow by their second year of film school. --Charles Solomon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Dissappointing Animation
I guess most of the collection are quite poor in the quality of animation either in the 3D model itself or the story line. A lot of the 3D animations didn't have a good control on the timing, "gravity" and "Ummph"!
The story line for most of the animations also doesn't impressed me. I've seen an animation collection VHS from PIXAR 3 years ago (actually it was out 5yrs ago) and the quality is superb! This DVD is a dissappointment to me.
Rating:  - Good DVD for the Kids
These collections of animation shorts are good for the first watch. After that the majority of them get old in a hurry. However, my kids love this DVD and I recommend it as a good kid genre video. Although the kids don't like this one as much as the newest Odessey DVD "Computer Animation Marvels". I love the Pixar short with the kid and adult lamps interacting. I wish Pixar would put out a full feature length DVD with just these lamp characters.
Rating:  - Excellent collection of CG short films! Recommended!
It's frustrating paying $20 for a DVD only to get a bunch of lame Bryce or amateurish Lightwave animations and maybe two or three good ones, if at all. My last few CG DVD purchases were like that, and I probably would have avoided this one had not a friend called me up and told me about it! (Thanks! HH!)
The quality of many of the animations on this disc are _REALLY_ good, with only a few exceptions. A couple of my personal favorites on this disc;
"Michael Gagne's Prelude ... Read More
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