Comments on: NPChloe: The Dark Kitty

By: maryvarn

maryvarn — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:12:12 +0000

Yeah I love that stuff. But as an animator and digital effects artist, I do have to say that effects these days are still a ton of work. Perhaps even more work as we come to expect more. We have better tools at our disposal, but everyone still has to put in the hard time and creativity to make great effects and animation.

By: Araahaiel

Araahaiel — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:07:57 +0000

I remember watching that movie for the first time and being in awe of the art and puppets in the movie. It is quite sad that movies no longer require that amount of work with the green screens and CGI that we have now. Happily we do have such classics to watch and remember the good ol’ days before CGI. I can just hear myself telling my kids, “Back in my day our movies had puppets and actual sets! None of this no good computer animations!”*

*Note: That should be imagined with a old lady voice.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:55:28 +0000

I love that film! I know I am dating myself here, but I actually remember seeing it in the theater and going “wow those are scary!”. My son who is nine loves them and we have watched it on many occasions. He knows about WoW and actually said “Hey those were stolen from the Dark Crystal!” when i was playing BC. lol It is a great movie and the story is fun as well. Fizzgig for the win!

By: Dyvim_Tvar

Dyvim_Tvar — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:38:17 +0000

A classic Henson film… his imagination and energy are sorely missed. With the technology involved to make it, and the depth of its vision, the Dark Crystal was easily the Avatar of its time… even though not everyone noticed back then.