Week 3

Life is Beautiful

Director: Robert Benigni

Year: 1997

The film won several awards, including the Grand Prix and the 1998 Cannes Film festival, nine David di Donatello Awards, including Best film and three Academy Awards, including best actor for Robert Benigni.

Robert Benigni received criticism for trivializing the Holocaust in "Life is Beautiful", while I can understand the criticism, I think from a storytelling perspective the film does a good job of getting the audience emotional invested in the story. For an audience get emotionally invested in the characters on the screen, they need to be able to relate to the characters. One of the best ways to create that link is to show the characters normal life. This is where "Life is beautiful" successes and lot of other World war 2 movies fail. The whole first half of the film is about getting you to care about the characters.

I am not entirely sure who I would recommend this film to. Don't get me wrong it is a good film bit the sudden shift in tone might turn people who like rom-coms off while the first half of the film might turn off other who hate romantic films. If nothing else it is a good film, so I'll just recommend it to a general audience.

Holiday Planning

Do the 3D first? Drawing 2d over it


Useful YouTube videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_mMLzZYjd8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na0O-UwAqnE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw0h9WmBlsw

Useful YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBZUcC_0ktWqj_CJi2w3-QQ




Process seems to be...

Finish your 3D animation

Export into a 2D animation program (toon boom, adobe flash)

Draw over the 3D on a new layer

Stitch together in after effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2BRl1hWnnY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cZrtGPmUAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQGaoj7jnBg