God's own Counterparts

And now for this week’s blog…Its about Animated movies…bet I can see some smiles! This sure is a happy blog :) I guess it all started with comic strips…people do love comic strips now a days too…a short little fun thing. But making it come to life is something more fun. After comic strips it moved on to making traditional two dimensional cartoons for kids to watch…there are innumerable characters..the most popular is Mickey Mouse…I bet everyone one of us would have owned at least one Mickey or his friend’s based goodies…like a pencil case, a coloring book or a T-Shirt…I have a friend who still loves her bedsheet with mickey mouse motifs! And it’s an immediate choice for parents to decorate their kid’s room! See how much good it does to lighten up a kids life?

Then people came up with brilliant ideas of making kids develop good habits, once they noticed that they were taking them as examples, one good thing was Popeye…I remember this cute little kid neighbour of mine…who relished every spoon of spinach he ate as he watched his hero bash up the “bad guys”. Most of the small episodes apart from being hilarious also had a moral to the end of it…which made growing up into a good individual spontaneous and fun.

Then came the trend of making all fairy tales into movies, its not that it stopped kids from actually reading books, but they sure did enjoy it when the compared their imagination about the character with what was portrayed. Disney is a major player in this, ‘The little Mermaid’, ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarf’s’, ‘Aladdin’, ‘Lion king’, ‘Cindrella’, ‘The Beauty and the Beast’ are few of my favorites!

As Computer’s started touching each and every aspect of life…It made a huge difference in entertainment as well…This is when the trend of Computer Animated motion pictures came into existence. My Dreamland “Pixar” started off the trend with Toy Story. Listed are few of my favorite characters
1) ‘Buzz’ and ‘Woody’ were wacko! ---Toy Story
2) ‘Flik’ is Inspiring --- A Bug’s Life
3) ‘Boo’ is the cutest --- Monster’s Inc
4) Optimistic ‘Dory’ is adorable --- Finding Nemo
5) Dashing ‘Dash’ --- The Incredibles
6) The hilarious Mr.”Donkey” --- Shrek
7) Yo! Yo! “Oscar” --- Shark Tale
And much much much more…..People, if you have not checked out these guys your missing something in life!

These animators, more precisely creators are almost close to God! Bringing things to life in unimaginable ways! In real movies, how much ever hard the Director tries, he cant get the Actor to bring out the picture he has in mind…. because he just doesn’t feel the emotion. That’s why animated movies do a much better job; the creator brings to life exactly what runs on his/her mind! They can bring emotions to even non living things!! Ever watched the short of Pixar’s mascot, a table lamp…which comes jumping on the screen at the beginning of every Pixar movie? Watch it here http://www.pixar.com/shorts/ljr/index.html (Watch the other shorts too Gerie’s Game is my favorite http://www.pixar.com/shorts/gg/index.html amazing how just a few minutes can create an impact)

One day I will have my own collection of all the possible animated movies and watch it even when I have grown old.

Addressing to all those Big guys who think all this is kid stuff….watch it to feel it! This is not branded to be for 12 years and below…it’s meant for all those who will appreciate, characterization, imagination and creation!!! Is there anyone who doesn’t???? Well… Think again then!!!

And Dearest Greatest God! even though they dont use flesh and skin as raw materials like you do, they do your kinda work pretty well with pencil 'n paper, computers, film 'n projectors and the creativity you gave them ofcourse !