Pictures of Amazing Body Painting Art

Pictures of Amazing Body Painting Art

Ever since the first animated full length movie was made in the U.S. (I believe it was Snow White, 1937) the Walt Disney Studios has been the biggest name in family movies. For many years, Disney has taken the stories and legends and turned them into beautiful cartoons for the large screen. Recently, animation stepped from cartoonists and their boards into the computer room and became computer animation. This year, animation took another step and became 3D animation movies. One of these movies is now an academy award winner: Avatar.

Avatar isn't a cartoon; it is a full-fledged movie for adults filled with action packed scenes made through animation. Using computer programs to take real people and place them into the bodies of computer generated people, the company that produced Avatar took the movie public on a magic carpet ride into a make believe world where we will never be able to go. Even without viewing this movie in 3D, the audience was transported to another world. The computer generated people in the animated sequences moved and acted exactly like the people they were supposed to be. The animation of the trees, flowers and other living things on the animated world was amazingly life-like as well. The computer generated people who did not have "real" counterparts in the non-animated world moved and acted as if there were a person standing in front of a green screen making the movements. The entire movie was a marvel and everything about it screamed Academy Award (even though it didn't win best movie) the first instance the picture melted on the screen in front of the audience.

Soon after Avatar won the big awards, Tim Burton brought another 3D movie to the big screen, Alice in Wonderland. Mr. Burton has several interesting movies to his credit where he has used animation but this was his first foray into the big 3D.

Computer animation makes Johnny Depp into the crazy Mad Hatter of Lewis Carroll's wonderful adventure that has taken us down a rabbit hole and through a looking glass into a world of animals and things and their interaction with crazy people. It is difficult to watch this movie without thinking how much computer animation has enhanced it. Computer animation allows the people in the film to do things that there would be no physical translation for in a real film. When little Alice paints the white roses red it is fluidly done and not a freeze frame type section of a movie that has been used in the past to do an impossible thing.

Computer animation is an amazing process. This art of making inanimate objects animate is now taught in film school. Soon it may be possible to do an entire film through the use of computers. What will happen to the "stars" of today when they no longer have to toil on the set; do action stunts; kiss the co star? Will people still watch a movie if there are no actually people involved? It's possible that this time will come sooner than expected.