Garden Party

Quite a tour de force to say the least. Several frogs form a kind of ballet which has them going after food and other things. The animation is more technology than convention. But in the end, it is a bit too much.

Memories about the fairy tales readed by grandfather in my childhood period. a lovely story. the question - scene by scene - if it is animation film. because the realism is real admirable not only as result of CGI but because each piece has its perfect place. short, a masterpiece. with predictable end. but seductive for humor. and for splendid characters.

In a deserted villa, frogs leap about the pool and grounds, entering the kitchen, bumping against switches, gradually revealing what has happened.

If there was a "best technical animation" Oscar, this would get it. The entire movie, in retrospect, was created in a computer, yet created with a photorealism that even now I find confounding. Yet I am left with the question: is animation what is left over when you are done photographing what is happening in the real world? I find that too all-encompassing to be useful, resulting in the vast majority of special effects in the history of cinema being animation. Something inside me whispers that animation must somehow be about content.... not about trick photography that could have been done by the Disney Organization in their True-Life Adventures in the 1960s, or even photographed by Len Powers for Hal Roach's Dippy-doo-dads in the early 1920s.

Or maybe I'm just a stick-in-the-mud arguing that they didn't do things that way in my day, by cracky. It's not the story that is revealed. I'm a big boy and I've seen worse things. I just don't think it's an animated story, even if they tell it that way.

The level of detail of this animation is completely astonishing. It looks so realistic. I thought only video games could do that. I don't know what the guys that made this happen "rendered", but they are awesome. Every little inch was perfectly crafted and delivered to us, the audience. I must admit that, the crew, that polished this masterpiece, are the next big thing in animation.

The crux of the scenario is being told by using a well mannered and curated detailing, which makes the viewer satisfied for spending few minutes.