OK, this is one of the very, very few movies I've ever granted a 10 with.
And why? Because of the visual style & unmatched originality alone! I just saw this today for the first time, and was completely awestruck from the beginning to the end. The style that the computer sequences are rendered with is pure gold. This movie really shows how limits may benefit art. I can't imagine a movie like this would work now that the technology is in no way limiting what can be done with 3D-software.
The airbrush work is sleek in the same minimal way as the wire-frame day-glo vector stuff.
The black & white human figures complete the totally ageless look of the CG sequences of this film.
I think this is one of the most underrated scifi-films of all time, and sincerely believe which will rise in artistic recognition as time passes and these beginning steps of computer graphics are just a page in the history books.
This is really an image of a very, very short span of time when computers were entering our world, but still missed a recognized position in people's imagination and everyday life.
I didn't know it beforehand and only realized it when the ending credits hit the screen, but visually this was a co-op between Jean "Moebius" Giraud and Syd Mead. The first on is my all-time favourite scifi-artist, and the other my most favourite visual designer in the movie field... Go figure :)
And why? Because of the visual style & unmatched originality alone! I just saw this today for the first time, and was completely awestruck from the beginning to the end. The style that the computer sequences are rendered with is pure gold. This movie really shows how limits may benefit art. I can't imagine a movie like this would work now that the technology is in no way limiting what can be done with 3D-software.
The airbrush work is sleek in the same minimal way as the wire-frame day-glo vector stuff.
The black & white human figures complete the totally ageless look of the CG sequences of this film.
I think this is one of the most underrated scifi-films of all time, and sincerely believe which will rise in artistic recognition as time passes and these beginning steps of computer graphics are just a page in the history books.
This is really an image of a very, very short span of time when computers were entering our world, but still missed a recognized position in people's imagination and everyday life.
I didn't know it beforehand and only realized it when the ending credits hit the screen, but visually this was a co-op between Jean "Moebius" Giraud and Syd Mead. The first on is my all-time favourite scifi-artist, and the other my most favourite visual designer in the movie field... Go figure :)