The Lily Pond
- 2008
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More an exercise than a viewing experience
The details of this film state that it was an exercise undertaken between an animator and a sound engineer and in fairness this is what it feels like – an exercise more than it is meant to be a film. It was the short film Stanley Pickle than brought me to this film because I read that The Lily Pond was an early run for the director at the techniques in that impressive animation – having the same lead actress in there also made me wonder how important it was in that creation and so I sought this one out.
The plot sees a young woman fall into a pond and while she is submerged she also becomes a puppet and is bothered by a fish until she is rescued; there is not much to it than that. The animation and merging with sound is the whole point and it is interesting for that, but probably more interesting for playing around with techniques and ideas rather than as a final product. It is hard to believe that this film and Stanley Pickle were made so close together (only 2 years between them) because the latter is so much more advanced, whereas in this one the pixilation technique does not seem so effective or impressive. Animations of models didn't seem to work that well either as it didn't flow that well. The working with sound I really didn't get as an idea, because the sound here seemed heavy and didn't fit – I'm not sure if the rules of the exercise put some constraint on Low but for me the sound was the weakest part of the short.
All in all it is interesting mainly to see the film before Stanley Pickle and I guess that film shows that this exercise was beneficial to the makers, but as a short film to watch it is probably not going to offer too much.
The plot sees a young woman fall into a pond and while she is submerged she also becomes a puppet and is bothered by a fish until she is rescued; there is not much to it than that. The animation and merging with sound is the whole point and it is interesting for that, but probably more interesting for playing around with techniques and ideas rather than as a final product. It is hard to believe that this film and Stanley Pickle were made so close together (only 2 years between them) because the latter is so much more advanced, whereas in this one the pixilation technique does not seem so effective or impressive. Animations of models didn't seem to work that well either as it didn't flow that well. The working with sound I really didn't get as an idea, because the sound here seemed heavy and didn't fit – I'm not sure if the rules of the exercise put some constraint on Low but for me the sound was the weakest part of the short.
All in all it is interesting mainly to see the film before Stanley Pickle and I guess that film shows that this exercise was beneficial to the makers, but as a short film to watch it is probably not going to offer too much.
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- bob the moo
- May 1, 2014
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