confessions of a foyer girl
‘confessions of a foyer girl’ is the second film in aardman’s revolutionary ‘animated conversations’ series .
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viewers are treated to another
confessions
film, this time about the girl who actually works in the cinema .
the conversations were actual scripted conversations which were based on real - life conversations the creators overhead, and figures were animated to accompany them. these conversations tended to be confessional. for example, down and out was about a homeless man trying to get into a shelter for the night, or confessions of a foyer girl was about… well, the confessions of a foyer girl in a cinema. these were aardman’s first true shorts, which paved the way for their future projects and successes .
her confession image is unique in that the background does not change to a bubbly pattern variant seen in most other confessions .
bar au, where it takes louis no time at all to fall for a beautiful girl across the room .
in 1978 aardman produced a pair of short animations based around dialogue recorded from members of the general public. though the two films – down and out and confessions of a foyer girl – were disregarded by the bbc, they were seized upon a couple of years later by channel 4. the new station commissioned a further five pieces in a similar style, paving the way for aardman’s oscar - winning creature comforts (best remembered as part of a 1980s electricity ad campaign) .
two usherettes in a cinema foyer talk about boys and boredom and what they are going to do when they get home from work .
luckily, there isn' t really anyone here. a few elderly ladys in floral patterned swimsuits, a family with two small kids and -. oh. a very hot girl. long legs, tiny red shorts on her slim hips and a huge white shirt .
lifeguard
it says in big black letters across her shoulders. great. maybe louis should just go and fake - drown so hot girl must come and to save her .
series conceived by colin thomas and bill mather for bbc bristol in the late 1970s. in this instance, we hear a foyer girl who works at an adult film theatre reflecting upon a variety of subjects, from her own hectic lifestyle to the sexual orientation of a friend, to a gruesome murder case making the headlines. she' s nearing the end of her shift and cannot wait to get off (she' s utterly exhausted, though hasn' t ruled out the possibility of another night on the town), but still has plenty of words to share with her quieter colleague jane .
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finds lord and sproxton in an unusually arty mode, juxtaposing the animated sequences with snippets of stock film footage, and regularly positioning the claymation girl in front of the live action images to give off the impression that she' s talking before a screening in a darkened auditorium. the title of the short is an obvious nod to the raunchy british sex comedies that were popular throughout the decade, starting with
left - lucina equips a levin sword, performs a thrust into the opponent, then fires a bolt of lightning. she reequips her parallel falchion and performs a front flip slash .
: marth had become a legend by her time—the hero - king. so lucina took that name to bolster the morale of her own army. think of it as a symbol of hope in the depths of despair .
“oh i’m so sorry, i’m so sorry. i didn’t see you coming and then i threw all of this right in your path and now–“ the girl wipes her hand on her jeans and holds it out to louis. uncertain, louis takes it in her own. she shakes it vigorously. “i’m so sorry, ” she says again .
an illusory likeness of lucina can be summoned through the connection of a lucina amiibo with mila' s turnwheel .
a princess and the daughter of chrom with a strong sense of justice. fights in similar garb to her beloved father. appears in fire emblem awakening .
if lucina is the daughter of the avatar, lucina will have the most amount of class options out of all characters in the game with a total of 35 (34 without bride) .
like its predecessor, ‘ down & out ‘, the film uses recorded dialogue. this time we hear two foyer girls chatting in a cinema. the dialogue is hard to understand and the lip - synch is not as good as in ‘down & out’. moreover, the animation is associated with seemingly unrelated stock live action footage, which leads to a film, which is both experimental and vague. the result never quite works and the result must be called a failure .
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takes place inside the lobby of a salvation army hostel and follows the efforts of a homeless pensioner to communicate his predicament to the staff on duty. unlike the visually experimental
all dusted and complete, i need a new series of underrated animations to champion .
daughter of chrom. future exalt of ylisse. curious about the old festival traditions of ylisse. appears in fire emblem awakening .
david spent three years on the board of the uk film council. he is now chairman of encounters festivals (bristol' s celebration of the short film) and a board member of the national film & television school .
war story received a rating of 6. 3 / 10 from 172 users on imdb .
on probation received a rating of 5. 1 / 10 from 55 users on imdb .
because of this, lucina is tied with female morgan for the most amount of skills learned in a single playthrough with 74 skills possible .
creature comforts was a huge hit for aardman, leading to a range of adverts and a tv programme based on the same premise but with a wider cast of animals. two series were made in total, and an american version was briefly aired before being canned for poor ratings .
a day or a lifetime - lou breeze (r. i. p. jon polito )
animated review a great blog on new and independent animation films, with lots of embedded films .
on imdb, al dente received a rating of 5. 4 / 10 from 82 users .
is a reminder of just how wonderfully engrossing this lost and heavily underestimated aardman art was. unlike
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or: a supernatual au where louis is a hunter but spends more time with liam than hunting .
were disregarded by the bbc they were seen a couple of years later by jeremy isaacs who was creating the shape of the newly formed channel four .
on imdb, the pearce sisters received a rating of 7. 1 / 10 from 199 users .
lucina appears in super mario maker as a special mystery mushroom character. she is unlocked either by completing a 100 mario challenge or scanning a lucina amiibo .
essentially lacked; broadly, it consists of little more than a collection of anecdotes, with no particularly obvious cumulative effect. instead, lord and sproxton took it upon themselves to work in a narrative, re - envisioning the speakers as a rugged band of desert island castaways who' ve been stranded for so long that they' ve become wholly adjusted to the lifestyle, and remain oblivious to a potential source of rescue that surfaces throughout the course of the film .
a day or a lifetime - lou breeze (r. i. p. jon polit ...
i made a promise a short while back that i would take a closer look at carlton your doorman, the only fully animated production to come ...
, revolved around audio recordings of real - life situations which were then reinterpreted using animated figures. outside of its aardman connections, the series as a whole remains something of an obscurity, so i do have
i' m of the opinion that rugrats is a seriously underappreciated cartoon. it may seem odd to propose that a show that was once so ...
lucina is a playable character and one of the three main protagonists (tritagonist) from fire emblem awakening .
lucina' s sword, a memento of her father. it has the power to heal life force .
, by contrast, changes the context of its own recording quite significantly, adjusting the setting and using a variety of visual cues to infer a backstory that is not implicit in the characters' dialogue, but which nevertheless radically alters our perception of their discussion. as with
or: louis spends the day at a pool, and harry is there to save her a bit mentally .
a mysterious swordsman who hides his face behind a mask. calls himself marth. appears in fire emblem awakening .
animation blog to thank for doing a considerable chunk of the research for me on this one. the series consisted of six short films (according to derek hayes'
the process of viewing chicken eggs for quality is via a special machine, and is called
candling
.
a princess and daughter of chrom who traveled to her past to prevent apocalypse. appears in fire emblem awakening .
the wrong trousers broadened the reception of the duo, so a follow - up was quickly produced (or as quickly as a stop - motion film could be made !) and released in 1995. a close shave, of a similar length and team to the previous films, expanded the scope of the previous shorts by doubling down on cast featuring two quirky humans and two silent dogs. of course it won another academy award, but it also introduced the world to a certain sheep ...
in both the drama cd and the manga, the mask was not her first choice for a disguise, as she initially intended to use a pair of massive glasses .
her strength of will is a great asset to her, though at times it manifests as pure stubbornness. she has a fierce devotion to refining her sword technique through daily practice, and like her father tends to wreak havoc on her surroundings in pursuit of this. she maintains a serious demeanor most of the time, yet on occasion the strangest things will prompt a laugh. she also has a fairly unique sense of fashion. while she views chrom as someone to protect, she also reveres him as her beloved father and acts as a dutiful daughter to him .
in order to collect conversations for the series, lord and sproxton hid microphones around a number of everyday locations, although sourcing usable material proved to be a challenge. in the book
, and that the film
doesn’t feature any backgrounds of notice, and the main character, a grumpy waiter who has to serve a vegetarian meal at a meat restaurant, looks primitive and unimaginative. the film is utterly mediocre and, like
work on chicken run begun in 1996, though principal photography took around 20 months for a crew of 40 animators to complete. the total crew numbered 457. due to the length of the production, aardman had to use a special blend of plasticine for the more expressive features of the film’s models. the
aardman mix
is harder and more durable than the newplast clay used on most aardman films. in total, 57 different colours of plasticine were used for the characters. to achieve the correct hue, the plasticine is mixed in a converted chewing gum machine. the first model of each character – the bodies of which comprised of foam latext constructed around a steel armature – cost around £10, 000. subsequent models cost
just
£2, 000. each of the chickens in the film had dozens of different mouths, shaped to vocalise each letter of the alphabet, as well as to convey emotion .
all human endeavours in all history is a... ... it happened because modern humans had accumulated a subconscious collective
. revisiting the series, it struck me that a couple of the most shocking instances of onscreen violence from series 2 resulted merely in non - fatal injuries, and i thought it a shame that, owing to the nature of the retrospective, i wouldn' t also be able to cover those. so in the end i decided to stick them on as a special bonus round. i will not be rating these, but i thought each of them quite worthy of their own miniature review .
like chrom, lucina as a great lord will give her a ranged option of javelins while boosting her high stat caps. she will also eventually learn rightful king to boost her activation of skills. also like chrom, lucina should remain a great lord once she has built the necessary skills. if lucina becomes the mother of morgan, she will always pass down aether to her .
: you can' t tell by looking at her, but i hear she' s got a great sense of humor .
including her parallel falchion, and both rapiers lucina can wield a total of 116 unique weapons provided the avatar is her mother .
david sproxton is the co - founder and executive chairman of aardman. together with co - founder peter lord, he has overseen the development of the company from a two - man partnership to one of the pre - eminent animation houses in the industry .
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chickens ovulate almost every day, and cockerel sperm can remain fertile inside a hen for up to 32 days. chickens can lay an egg approximately every 27 hours, and will ovulate 30 minutes after laying an egg. unless the egg is layed after 2pm, in which case a delay of 16 - 18 hours is normal. a hen will lay an average of 245 eggs a year .
was a five - part series of claymation shorts commissioned in the early 80s by jeremy isaacs of the newly - birthed channel 4 and directed and animated by peter lord and david sproxton of aardman animations (still the only staff members of aardman at the time). these were ordered upon the strength of two very similar shorts which lord and sproxton had created for bbc bristol in 1978 ,
their third film, released in 2006, didn’t do as well. the story of a high - class rat who gets brought into the world of sewage rats, flushed away was still liked and made a profit, but with aardman’s fantastic track record this feature fell flat. especially criticised was the relative absence of humour and the all - cgi production, a departure in style for the company .
it’s louis job to make her best friend’s birthday another memorable memory. with it comes a series of events louis couldn’t have anticipated .
lucina is the only child in awakening with a fixed hair color and cannot inherit the hair color of her non - determinate parent .
the curse of the were - rabbit was a huge success for aardman, yet for various reasons dreamworks refused to work with them further and so they were on their own to find a new project. this project was a return to roots for aardman, as on christmas day 2008 the bbc aired a matter of loaf and death, a wallace and gromit short themed around, obviously, baking. with a smaller scale than the feature film, aardman enjoyed the freedom of creativity that the bbc afforded them. whilst generally regarded as the worst wallace and gromit, it was still hugely popular and should only be considered inferior due to the merits of the initial shorts .
lou, who appears in three scenes throughout the film, is a deceptively subtle character, one who initially appears to be little more than a mumbling dogsbody to a much more powerful and imposing presence, so perhaps it' s understandable that polito worried about the role not being challenging enough. by the end of the film, lou reveals himself to be a far shrewder and more manipulative figure than barton could ever have pegged him for. one of the recurring themes of
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a probationer wants to miss a meeting to go and see his brother, but must negotiate with his officer
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in a medieval castle, a marauder tries to kidnap the twin infant sons of the lord. he makes off with only one, whom he drops about a mile away. a pig rescues this baby, so one brother grows up high on the hog, the other down with the swine; one is lazy, his lost brother is industrious. years later, when a neighboring prince declares wa ...
had with piling on one loopy sight gag after another, it nevertheless preserved the original context of the audio recording - fundamentally, it was always about a morning dj presenting at a regional radio station, give or take a random frog or an even more random taxidermic cat .
a shades of pink story where harry gets her first tattoo and realises that it turns her on more than she ever would have thought .
lucina appears in her base lord class wielding her parallel falchion. depending on the attack input, she uses a variety of different weapons .
inigo traveled the world, ever ready with a smile or a solution when trouble started to brew. lucina journeyed with him, and their home of the moment was always brimming with joy and laughter .
, written by andy lane and published by boxtree in 2003 (p. 52), lord recounts how attempts to record a conversation at a barber shop went awry when a customer caught sight of the microphone and took exception to their underhanded tactics. an ironmonger' s shop was tried as another potential location, but nothing of any real interest happened .
code name: s. t. e. a. m. is compatible with the super smash bros. 4 amiibo figures of fire emblem characters. when scanned, a s. t. e. a. m. version of lucina will appear in - game. lucina wields her parallel falchion, leaping towards the enemy to strike them, and the nidhogg bow. her special is a rush charge, going through any enemies in her path until she runs out of steam to move .
thrived on upon the discrepancies created by a visibly weary disc jockey with a perky on - air persona, or the combination of mundane radio dialogue with the surreal happenings inside the studio. still, as much fun as
unfortunately a tour of aardman like this, looking at their franchises, misses some pretty important things. one of these is chicken run, their first feature - film, which precedes the curse of the were - rabbit by five years. the plot, an affectionate homage to the great escape, follows a group of chickens living on a farm waiting to be turned into pies, and their escape attempt helmed by new rooster ‘rocky’, voiced by mel gibson. the film did well at the box office and is still a greatly beloved film, among both children and adults .
dvd released in 2000, must have been one elusive beast indeed to get a hold of. shame that, because at this point in lord and sproxton' s career it might just have been the weirdest, most wickedly inventive film they' d devised so far. even today, it still holds up as one of the genuine oddities of aardman' s output, and is an absolute must - see for fans of experimental animation, or those with a particular interest in the history of the studio .
the hand of god fashions adam out of the clay of earth and places him on a small and empty planet. each of adam' s actions - at first he can' t stand up, then he barks like a dog, then he sleeps - requires god' s intervention. after adam discovers how small the planet is, how little there is to do, and god' s unwillingness to let him leave ...
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a young man is in love with an image in a picture frame. to find out if the love he feels is returned he picks a flower and starts picking the petals off it .
there are 24 individual poses per second of film in chicken run. the team managed to get 100 seconds of film in the can each week .
she’s standing in a corridor filled with clueless students, who’ve no idea about the real world. a world where the things they’re taught means nothing, where the one book she needs is the handwritten notebook her step - dad left for them, filled with every type of monsters he’s ever heard of .
let' s begin our roundup of case studies on individual production logos with a love letter to possibly the most genteel and non - threat ...
spectrum, with its straight approach to the source material and commitment to total realism, something which peter lord and david sproxton dabbled with a number of times in the early years of the studio. by the 1990s, aardman' s naturalistic streak appeared to have all but faded - the last of their projects to pursue this degree of thorough - going realism was peter lord' s
note: this entry is a tribute to jon polito, who passed away on 1st september 2016 at age 65, leaving behind a rich and prolific legacy of character acting which includes appearances in five coen brothers films. among them was
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“warrior from a doomed future” —lucina' s alias on punch - out stage .
according to the drama cd, her tiara was a gift from her mother .
one of the better - known shorts made by john and faith hubley is moonbird, from 1959. this film came about when the hubleys made a secret …
a short vision, the work of hungarian - born animator peter foldes and his british spouse joan foldes, may just be the most most celebrate ...
chrom' s daughter and future princess of ylisse. when she arrives from a doomed future seeking to prevent it from ever happening, she goes by the name marth before her identity is revealed. she fights much like her adopted namesake, but her entire blade is equally powerful instead of having a more powerful tip .
it’s weird to be in a place where people care about such different things than she does. it’s a totally different world, and she’s not the one that’s foolish. no matter if her teachers find her annoying, and a hopeless case .
lucina does not make a direct appearance in the game. however, in a collaboration between monster hunter and fire emblem, a female armor set for both blademasters and gunners exists in the game that is based on lucina' s lord outfit .
harry styles and louis tomlinson have been together for years now. they decide it’s time to add a third member to their family. louis brings home a puppy .
grants spd + 4 to an adjacent ally until the end of the turn .
something sets off lucina' s peculiar sense of humor, boosting her tension .
overall ,
call of the mild
is a curious but ultimately not very satisfying attempt at creating an episode with minimal dialogue, one which basically takes its central scenario of the dog roaming with feral dogs and stretches it as far as it can go without any genuine feeling of structure or development. the result is one of the more
different
episodes of the series' run, but also one of the most dull (although with the binfords largely absent it' s at least tolerable). the only especially striking elements are the city sequences which, while not as visually adventurous as they perhaps could have been, nevertheless do a decent job of showing the dog in unfamiliar territory in which he' s even more dwarfed and overwhelmed than usual. the potential for a dark and arresting romp through the nocturnal world of the urban fleabag was definitely there, but
call of the mild
approaches the matter rather too mildly for its own good .
, remains grounded within the realism of the film' s setting. humour tends to be subtle and is largely implemented through the mannerisms of the characters, which are charmingly rendered (i particularly love the wife swerving to avoid her husband' s elbow as he goes into a particularly impassioned speech about the kinds of household devices being advertised nowadays). there' s an undeniable warmth to the film which resonates from just how
human
each of these plasticine creations are, with each minute character detail and expression enhancing our appreciation of the situation, and what it means to each of the figures involved. the background ambience adds immensely to the authenticity of the scenario, and in one instance the film makes particularly deft use of the sounds of an aircraft flying overhead by having the wife' s gaze wander up in its direction to indicate her lack of interest in the salesman' s anecdote about some american tourists who were particularly eager customers of his .
“i prayed to the hero - king for a small part of the strength he used to save the world. but i need this subterfuge no longer. i choose to fight as lucina now. the name that reminds me of the strength in the man and woman who chose it. ” —lucina in chapter 14 of awakening
or, the one where louis is a football playing creative writing major with an eye for detail (when she isn' t hitting people with her car), and harry is a clumsy cello prodigy with a passion for collage and expensive coats .
the dog' s dream is suddenly interrupted by the nightmarish sight of a godzilla - sized buffy rising out of a canyon. sure enough, the repugnant little brat is standing beside his basket, and has woken him up purely so that she can drag him off to play some obnoxious game called
tv time
, which involves sticking a paper bag over the dog' s head and parading him around inside a cardboard box before an audience of dolls and stuffed rabbits. billy then walks in, shoves buffy over and laughs that he can see her underpants and ...
custom up special 1: crescent slash: lucina propels herself with a diagonal trajectory .
chrom, who tends to break things a lot, crashes right through guarding foes .
in my review of when the wind blows, i made some reference to benji the hunted being the film that killed off what remained of my child ...
when the series finale of st. elsewhere, fittingly entitled
the last one
, aired on may 25th 1988, viewers were hit with a do ...
weaving his way through a labyrinth of streets and alleys while trying to stay out of the dogcatcher' s sight, our dog finds the ferals feeding out a dumpster and attempts to join them, but they still won' t accept him as one of them and send him packing. confusingly, in the next sequence we see the dogs preparing to cross a freeway, and suddenly they appear to be fine with our dog, because he' s standing right beside them and no one' s objecting .
half a year later, lucina is now ylisse' s new exalt and occasionally meets with the rest of
chrom' s new shepherds
from time to time .
effective against dragon foes. restores 10 hp at the start of every second turn .
lucina' s birthday is the same day that fire emblem: shadow dragon and the blade of light and fire emblem: path of radiance were first released in japan .
although only four speaking voices are heard in the audio, there is an additional, mostly silent figure who sits apart from the rest and whose key purpose (other than to have a rat pop comically out of his beard) is to provide a humorous but also downright harrowing contrast to their words of stoic contentment. toward the end of the short, he becomes aware of a ship on the distant waters but is so overwhelmed by shock and excitement that he immediately collapses, whereupon he attempts feebly to point out this potential means of escape to the others but fails to attract much notice. such is the extent of the others' complacency that they have learned to tune out any foreign or external noises - the sound of the ship' s horn bellowing out across the sea comes just as one character muses that he really appreciates life on the island because
aardman continued its association with tony hart throughout the 1970s. when hart presented teatime art show take hart, aardman teamed him with a desktop lump of plasticine called morph. the unintelligible morph spun - off into his own series of 26 episodes in 1981, where he was teamed with chas, a gruffer - sounding unintelligible plasticine guy, and foily – a foil woman. just imagine munching on her bits with your fillings, lads !
, which also deals with the complexities of having to adjust to living arrangements that are isolating or alien). it' s here that lord and sproxton' s added - on narrative really comes into play, radically changing what we make of these character reflections. the story we get, communicated largely through the inventiveness of the visuals, is one of individuals formerly gripped by wanderlust, who' ve now been confined a single spot for so long that they no longer entertain any thoughts of leaving. arguably, they have found serenity in the simplicity and solitude of their surroundings, but lord and sproxton throw in an additional, hilariously cruel twist, by having a prospective means of rescue finally show up long after they' ve apparently made their peace with the situation .
i can still recall the initial shock i felt when i first saw this sequence back in 1994; the moment of severance happens in a blink of an eye, but it manages to seem stark and unsettling all, in no small part due to the small streaks of red which momentarily burst from adder' s broken body. this is otherwise an entirely bloodless affair, but no less gruesome for it; we see from the subsequent shots that scarface has bitten off quite a sizeable chunk of adder' s tail, which makes the sight of him standing beside the discarded remains (along with the images of adder' s mutilated body from inside the hole) seem utterly skin - crawling .
sumia: sumia boosts lucina' s speed the most out of all of her mother candidates and gives her a good stat boost in luck, magic, and resistance. she will have a slight drop in defense caps and no boost to her strength, but lucina should be just fine as the daughter of sumia. sumia passes down pegasus knight, knight, and cleric. among the best skills for lucina to grab from her maternal inheritance are galeforce from the dark flier class to make her a better map clearing unit. as a general, she can learn pavise, which will compliment her rightful king and aegis, making her a very powerful defensive unit if she is swarmed. as a war cleric, she can learn renewal, which helps her restore lost health if she takes any .
( 1989) being about the closest thing to it). i wouldn' t expect the film to enthrall many beyond the most rabid of aardman / experimental animation devotees, but for those who fall into that category it offers a multitude of pleasures - among them the opportunity to survey lord and sproxton' s developing craft, and the utterly charming portrait they create of a strangely vulnerable individual attempting to burn the candle at both ends .
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louis never expected to be pregnant at 25 after a drunk one - night - stand. she also never expected to be keeping that fact a secret from her famous baby daddy. but with the blood thirsty media always circling for a story about the one and only harry styles, it' s not going to be a secret that' s easily kept .
: i' ll try cracking a few jokes and see if that softens her up .
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, in that the family themselves are largely absent throughout, and instead the dog spends most of the episode running around with a pack of feral dogs who have taken up residence in a vacant lot close to the binfords' house. he gets to experience what life would be like if he wasn' t such a family - friendly mutt, in other words. i' ve routinely stated that the binfords are by fair the weakest aspect of the show, so how does this episode fare by keeping them predominantly on the sidelines ?
“nah, babe, you can do so much better. ” harry was teasing now, louis was almost sure. she stopped laughing all of a sudden and took a step towards harry. she was so close now that louis could smell vodka tonic on her. “i can, can’t i? ” louis said, her voice nearly a whisper. “that’s what i said. ” harry dropped her arms on her sides and let out a shaky breath .
custom down special 2: iai counter lucina' s counter starts off a bit slower and has a slightly longer recovery period. however, it deals more counter damage and has a much higher knockback. it sends the attacker in the opposite direction and puts lucina behind them .
when aardman was signed to produce chicken run for dreamworks, the park and lord insisted the company wouldn’t compromise its trademark britishness. by way of a compromise, mel gibson was cast as the anti - hero rocky. gibson, a big fan of wallace and gromit, was more than happy to sign. however, he was busy filming the patriot at the time the production required him, so he recorded many of his lines via digital phone lines .
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effective against dragons. at the start of every third turn, unit recovers 10 hp .
grants spd + 3 at start of turn if unit' s hp < 50% .
grants spd + 5 at start of turn if unit' s hp < 50% .
grants spd + 7 at start of turn if unit' s hp < 50% .
effective against dragons. at the start of every third turn, unit recovers 10 hp .
remains firmly grounded within the realism of the situation, the emphasis being on bringing the central figure to life in a manner that conveys the loneliness and quiet desperation implicit in the dialogue .
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au. harry and louis are roommates. girls' night ends a little differently than usual .
a stationary chargeable attack. lucina thrusts her sword into her opponent like her standard attack animation in
a narrow blade, usable by chrom and lucina, that' s best against armored foes .
, which strove to be as zany as possible in their interpretations of their source material, the aim here was to emphasise the drama in the mundane, the complete and utter ordinariness of the setting and situation being precisely the point. in this particular case, we follow a door - to - door salesman with a suitcase full of cleaning equipment as he spars off against an elderly couple and runs through what we suspect from the outset will be an unsuccessful sales pitch .
the pensioner states that he has come from the hostel across the road on the understanding that he requires a ticket from this particular hostel in order to get a meal in their cafeteria. as the man at the front desk attempts to make sense of what he is saying, it becomes apparent that the pensioner may have had the doors closed on him by the unseen hostel across the road - at one of the most illuminating points of the conversation, he asks the captain on duty ,
who did you ring ?
and insists that ,
i' ve never done them no harm, none of them .
with each of his statements essentially amounting to a pitiful, disconcerted plea (
i' m disabled, in a way
,
i can' t cross the roads... bad nerves
), he is in every respect an outcast, struggling desperately to articulate his despair and ultimately failing to make any kind of connection. the extent of his dislocation is emphasised in a particularly harrowing moment when the man at the desk consults the captain and the pensioner turns and wanders off on his own around the lobby, apparently unable to keep a firm footing in wherever he stands for long .
the film also expands upon the physical environment of its three speakers by adding in a couple of silent characters: a neighbouring woman who eavesdrops upon the conversation and the couple' s dog, who comes sniffing around the salesman' s briefcase as he gets deeper into his pitch. by twist of fate, both of these characters seem more interested in what the salesman has to offer than do his intended audience - particularly the latter, whose affection for a blue brush which was casually discarded during the course of the salesman' s pitch provides the closing image of the film. in an ending which feels at once comical and poignant, we see the closest that the salesman ever comes (albeit unwittingly) to finding an appreciative consumer for his wares - somewhat ironically over an item that he himself wasn' t so much as prepared to talk up .
chickens have cannibalistic tendencies. farmers will often
de - beak
them, in a process which removes the end of the beaks, in order to prevent them from eating one another .
. i' d be lying if i said that
call of the mild
was automatically a better episode for the lack of binford - brand unpleasantness. oh sure, it' s nice to have a solid eleven minutes in which we don' t have to tolerate their ugly antics, but
call of the mild
still suffers from tedious, directionless plotting which fails to do anything particularly interesting with the change of setting. our dog simply runs away to live on the streets for a bit, the only really significant outcome being that, once we' ve compiled enough footage to fill up an episode, he inevitably has to go back home .
lucina is a strong willed and driven woman who is determined to alter the dark future she came from. she values her comrades deeply and has a sense of justice. due to the countless deaths and horrific events of the future, she dislikes any form of death, even
noble
ones. her main motivations come from her love for her parents, especially chrom. lucina is willing to do whatever it takes to see that chrom stays alive, even if it means going against her wish for no needless deaths. nevertheless, she is obedient to chrom and puts her trust in her father' s judgements, showing a strong bond of trust with her father .
these projects also saw aardman increase their manpower, hiring several new animators for the next project. this project turned out to be lip synch, a project similar to their previous one but which helped them really develop the facial animations of the characters. there were five in total, spread between different animators. one of these animators was named nick park, a name synonymous with aardman .
; we hear him talking about one vina who was seduced away from him. the ill - fated al / vina relationship actually does resurface a few times throughout the series as a running gag, although al' s implied presence here as a hobo residing in a box car does raise a few questions with regards to continuity. for example, what' s become of his dog katie? and isn' t he supposed to be running a doughnut shop in south dakota right now? al' s supposed to be a down on his luck guy, so you could infer that his business failed and that katie ditched him, although that doesn' t fit with what' s later shown in the tenth and final episode and - well, we' ll get to that .
, where he played the role of lou breeze, the quiet and much - abused personal assistant of capitol pictures big cheese jack lipnick. the coens had written the part of lou breeze specifically for polito, but ironically polito was more interested in the role of lipnick, which he considered by far the juicer job, and initially turned down their offer. as recounted by polito in
harry blasts music in the early hours of the morning. louis brings her back to bed .
custom regular special 1: storm thrust: lucina' s thrusting animation creates a small whirlwind in front of her, giving her higher knockback. the sword itself deals less damage than the default .
one of the most striking changes to the established order of business at the final meeting is that lou, who' d previously positioned himself at an almost uncomfortably close proximity to barton, now maintains a firm distance from him, except for at the very end when he gets to eject him in the usual manner. there are few more telling signals of barton' s fall from grace than in this supposed dogsbody no longer having to maintain the illusion of being on a close or comparable footing to him, much less run back and forth fetching cups of coffee for this lowly and undesirable writer. it was lou, we also learn, who actually read barton' s screenplay for
has to do with the falseness of hollywood; the notion that no one whom barton encounters upon his increasingly disorientating journey is ever quite what they appear, and the more sordid realities which occasionally manage to seep their way through to the surface. the relationship between lipnick and lou is one of the more muted examples of these falsities in action, but also one of the most fascinating .
the animation has the rough, unpolished but lovingly crafted look which was characteristic of the early aardman shorts, with the attention to detail being absolutely splendid all round. the only slight chink occurs when day pours the aforementioned cereal box and we blatantly switch into live action footage of cornflakes filling up a bowl, which seems discordant with the overall flow of the stop - motion animation - and yet it also fits in perfectly with the sense of half - asleep, pre - caffeine delirium which
aardman animation .
early bird
an early
conversation piece
animating a radio west broadcast .
, it was thanks to a conversation with fellow coens regular frances mcdormand that he was persuaded otherwise .
from their previous successes, aardman had the world at their feet for the man and his dog, and so they moved on to… nothing. well, strictly speaking not ‘nothing’, yet no real shorts or films. they had a few minor projects, such as a jubilee - themed project and a prom night, but aardman has so far declined to produce anything new on the wallace and gromit front. perhaps this is due to their transition to a few franchise, or the failing health of peter sallis, the voice of wallace, or maybe they’ve simply been working on another feature length epic .
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a punctilious waiter at the steak barn is taken aback when a diner orders the vegetarian option. regardless of how glistening and sharp the restaurant' s knives, how large the type of the menu' s meat dishes, how baleful the italian' s eye when he takes the order, and how argumentative the cook, the customer steadfastly awaits crudités. who could this naif be ?
this is just a collection of louis - centirc, larry stylinson one - shots. please enjoy, i take request. the first page is all about the requirements to request please check it out .
a follow - up short, the wrong trousers, was produced and released in 1993. broadening the cast to include the penguin feathers mcgraw, and weaving a more traditional plot than a grand day out, the thirty - minute comedy won the academy award that nick park stole from himself four years prior .
remember the sheep i mentioned? everyone else did. his bumbling innocence proved popular with audiences, and so in 2007 cbbc began airing shaun the sheep, a children’s comedy about shaun’s antics around his farm. it was very successful, and is still being created now. a notable absence from the creation team was nick park, who released the directorial role in favour of a production credit and other projects.
confessions of a foyer girl is a 1978 short film created by aardman animations . it is part of the animated conversations series . in this short , creators david sproxton and peter lord " applied the groundbreaking technique of using recorded conversations of real people as the basis for the script " . 
confessions of a foyer girl is a 1978 short film created by aardman animations. it is part of the animated conversations series. in this short, creators david sproxton and peter lord " applied the groundbreaking technique of using recorded conversations of real people as the basis for the script ".
confessions of a foyer girl is a 1978 short film created by aardman animations. it is part of the animated conversations series. in this short, creators david sproxton and peter lord " applied the groundbreaking technique of using recorded conversations of real people as the basis for the script ".