Floozy Speak!

Go out and buy Animatrix now, dont think just buy it, watch it, go thru all the extras and be one with it. I have to say the Animatrix is probably the best DVD I've watched in a long while. Ok next to Dark Angel, I guess its been a good week of viewing for me.

Nine animated shorts from some the best names in anime fill the screen. You get a taste of beautiful 2D and slick 3D animation styles. The stories are just as good as the matrix concept itself. In particular I loved the animation style and speed that a Kid's Story by Shinichiro Watanabe, Mr. Cowboy Bebop himself. He has two shorts on Animatrix. A Kid's Story, I think, is the better of the two. I makes me wanna go skateboarding. It's one animated short that I think american kids are gonna go crazy over just to try and capture the sense of speed of it. The style of the work is also very sketchy.. heh I like it.

I also loved Beyond by Korji Morimoto. A tale of a haunted house, a bit of the Matrix gone wrong. You have to watch Beyond like three times to pick up all the little things hidden in the background. What I like about Morimoto is that his style of animation incorporates alot of 3D tricks mixed in with 2D in such a way, its just different. He has an odd style I really like.

The Second Renaissance Part 2 is grim, man defeated kinda thing but it comes together nicely on the screen. I love the music in this one. Theres a track in this piece i must find.

So don't consider the Animatrix, just get it