Essay I am working on

Motion Capture: Killing the Soul of Animation is the title. Here is my introduction, hope you see where i am going with this.

We have all loved animation for its ability to break free from the realm of the physical world. Cartoons defy every single law of physics and bend the rules of biology. And we as viewers still love them and accept them for everything they do because well, these are ‘cartoons’. If someone were to see a human perform the same crazy antics as Wile E. Coyote it would induce more horror and shock than laughter. It is a simple fact of animation. But still some studios and directors feel the need to ‘push realism’ in 3D animated movies through motion capture.

Mickey interviewed me

Mickey Mak:
Yeah I heard about Savannah Congrats!

yash gupta:
thanks man

Mickey Mak:
Hoe did it happend?

yash gupta:
how?

Mickey Mak:
yes!

yash gupta:
I applied for SCAD. I sent them a portfolio

Mickey Mak:
ok
but does it mean you won't have to pay for school at all?

yash gupta:
even though my cousin told me they don't offer scholarships
I found out in feb that they do.
no, I will still be paying a huge amount
but this is the first time ever I've been given any scholarship

Mickey Mak:

Did u tell ur fam?
Mickey Mak:

they must be super excited
yash gupta:
:
i told my dad.
yash gupta:
:
he didn't sound excited
yash gupta:
:
but hey, dad's like me. controls his emotions very well
Mickey Mak:
:
So you're moving to the US. You lucky bastard. You know you're living my dream right?
yash gupta:
:
he's a cancerian too
yash gupta:
:
:D
Mickey Mak:
:
lol
yash gupta:
:
he wasn't too shaken when I told him I didn't get into sheridan either
Mickey Mak:

ah so u didn't get into sheridan
Mickey Mak:

but You're still happy right?
Mickey Mak:

I mean Savannah! Excellent school too
yash gupta:

yes, definitely
yash gupta:

I didn't tell my family this, I don't think I ever will..
Mickey Mak:

I guess youre dad is not too fond of the idea of you changing places
yash gupta:

probably
Mickey Mak:

Just curious from which school did u get an answer first?
yash gupta:

sheridan first told me I scored a . on my portfolio
yash gupta:

and today I heard from SCAD
Mickey Mak:

WOW
Mickey Mak:

Heart attack!
yash gupta:

no.
Mickey Mak:

when did you apply to Savannah?
yash gupta:

I had set up my family for this, told them before my result that i didn't work very hard, I only started working on it after I came back from phoenix
yash gupta:

february
yash gupta:

after I got back from phoenix
yash gupta:

after I got back from phoenix, I was so charged up! I worked my butt off on the portfolio. I didn't eat properly, slept as little as I could, didn't play squash....
yash gupta:

my parents won't know that.
Mickey Mak:

No body deserves it better than you man
yash gupta:

I don't know about that...
yash gupta:

:) thanks tho
Mickey Mak:

I'm very curious about something. How does it feel to have been rejected times by Sheridan? I don't know if I would have been able to take it.
yash gupta:

feels like they are such jerks
yash gupta:

I've seen their system, and it's Flawed, with a bold F!
Mickey Mak:

really how so
yash gupta:

I know this guy kyle, who is a really fine artist. I've seen him work on his portfolio for months!
yash gupta:

probably all year long, way longer than I have
yash gupta:

(this year)
yash gupta:

and he didn't get in either
yash gupta:

people who have gotten s and s on their sheet, suddenly get a in a arbit category somewhere.
Mickey Mak:

Wow
Mickey Mak:

I'm really happy for you man
yash gupta:

my classmates, who saw me work, are like, . is not bad for weeks of work
yash gupta:

LOL
Mickey Mak:

Now that you've got a ticket it in can you honestly say that Animation is still you passion? your dream?
yash gupta:

Hernando, who I started going to for review, critique of my work,
yash gupta:

was very encouraging too...
yash gupta:

"if you improved so much in month, you can definitely make it in next year!"
yash gupta:

ofcourse I can!
Mickey Mak:

Sorry
Mickey Mak:

you were saying
Mickey Mak:

?
Mickey Mak:

Now that you've got a ticket it in can you honestly say that Animation is still you passion? your dream?
yash gupta:

sorry what/
Mickey Mak:

i disconnected
yash gupta:

-> ofcourse I can.
Mickey Mak:

Now that you've got a ticket it in can you honestly say that Animation is still you passion? your dream?
yash gupta:

again?
Mickey Mak:

Oh you said " Of course"
Mickey Mak:

sorry lol
Mickey Mak:

so what now?
Mickey Mak:

how much is Savannah comparaed to Sheridan. I know Animation at sheridan is about K/ yr
Mickey Mak:

?
yash gupta:

yeah, SCAD will be k
yash gupta:

but not such a big difference anymore.
Mickey Mak:

I hear that the US is looking forward to attract Int Student considering the economic climate. More $ for them
yash gupta:

yeah
Mickey Mak:

So what's you plan now? Know anybody in Atlanta?
yash gupta:

nope. and I'm going to join the savannah campus
yash gupta:

well, not off the top of my head..
yash gupta:

but if I tried.. I could find a distant relative, or a friend of a relative.. relative of friend...
yash gupta:

LOL
Mickey Mak:

Honestly now that you're experience Canada and a little bit of the US which do you like best?
Mickey Mak:

?
Mickey Mak:

??????????
yash gupta:

I like it where I have friends
yash gupta:

I like it where I have family
Mickey Mak:

What does this mean? You like Canada, India, and America equally?
Mickey Mak:

Am I keeping you away from something?
yash gupta:

I just got distracted
yash gupta:

there are things I'd like to get going on..
yash gupta:

but to answer that question, I don't think I can say yet
yash gupta:

I've only lived in USA for less than a month
yash gupta:

in different places
yash gupta:

out of it all, phoenix seemed the most to be my kind of place.
Mickey Mak:

just so you know living in a country is at least months
Mickey Mak:

you were on vacation
Mickey Mak:

lol
yash gupta:

would definitely like to stay in phoenix more
yash gupta:

San francisco, the city, the people, seemed cold. distant
yash gupta:

Mansfield Ohio, was a small town.. countryside.. worse than oakville
yash gupta:

Toronto, seems cool. but again, I haven't lived there
yash gupta:

akola, pune, I'd be like, "fucking don't make me live there!"
yash gupta:

atleast until they come out of the dark ages
Mickey Mak:

worse than Oakville I didn't know that existed
Mickey Mak:

lol
yash gupta:

hehe
yash gupta:

you could drive for a few minutes before you see any traffic lights!
yash gupta:

doesn't sound so bad in that sentence..
Mickey Mak:

when you look back from when you first came to Sheridan. DO you have any regrets (This sounds like an intervew lol)
yash gupta:

I didn't exaggerate it
yash gupta:

could I go ahead and put it on my blog?
Mickey Mak:

sure
Mickey Mak:

lol
yash gupta:

I wouldn't have met so many great friends if I didn't come to sheridan.
yash gupta:

we wouldn't be talking if I hadn't come to sheridan. so yeah, I would regret not coming to sheridan most of all!
Mickey Mak:

But I mean do you regret not applying to SCAD after you first Sheridan rejection?
yash gupta:

uh.. yeah, a little bit maybe. I think I should have pursued SCAD like I did sheridan.
yash gupta:

but wait.. maybe after my nd rejection
yash gupta:

my first rejection was no even my best attempt
Mickey Mak:

True
yash gupta:

I was SO BAD back then.
Mickey Mak:

So this is new adventure for you. Are you gonna miss Canada?
yash gupta:

I was talking to friends about coming back to canada for christmas.
yash gupta:

:)
yash gupta:

I didn't tell you about the adventures we had out in the snowstorm!
yash gupta:

or did I?
Mickey Mak:

I don't think so

Some people Clearly have trouble understanding wall-E

The following is a comment meant for Aayush's blog post. He said Wall-E was a pretty disappointing movie and I was outraged. I typed out this whole thing without even blinking an eye(Figuratively speaking). But his annoying comments form wouldn't let me publish it because now for about 6 times, it think that the word verification I typed is incorrect. So I say 'fuck you image verification.' I have my own place to voice my opinion and I will publish it there.

Dear Friend Aayush,

I don't know whether I should laugh and snicker or blow up with rage! I mean, I would love to say 'I told you so' about pixar not being the best at making animated movies but this is definitely one of their better movies. (Cars was one of their less than stellar movies.)

Let's see the 'other aspects' you mentioned.
The story: A completely new and original plot. Unlike the obviously cliché'd Cars story. (Actually I read the story pretty closely resembles Doc Hollywood) How do you not appreciate the creativity and imagination that went into conceiving a plot about how the human race ended up in space and a ROBOT of all things comes to the rescue while fighting another robot/computer?

Characters: Wall-E himself is one of the best characters ever conceived. He is not shallow and one dimensional. He has a very enchanting personality. And other characters also come into their own as the movie progresses. Have you seen the short Burn-E? Even that robot has a personality, he feels disappointment, shame, failure,motivation... I could go on.

Acting: are you blind? Wall-E's performance is the best ever, bar none. R2D2, ET, and numerous other robots and alien characters that I can't even name right now.

Dialogue: sure it didn't have much literal dialogues but the sounds the machines make, convey their emotions. Think back to the old charlie chaplin movies and try telling me movies have to have dialogues to be entertaining.

Agreed Ratatouille had the best 'character animation' in any movie to date. But this movie had a different set of physics to play with.. Humans were fat and jelataneous in this movie and the rest were robots who were not meant to be very elaborate machines, just functional. Similarly, the universe of cars was very different. you can't compare them to each other.

I am SO going to regret these two hours of my life!

Today, I downloaded and started to watch 'my friend Ganesh' the movie. 3 minutes into it, I realized I couldn't sit through it! I knew I was gonna regret the next two hours of my life I was to spend watching this dumb Indian live action-animated indian movie. I don't think anyone over the age of 6 years could enjoy this movie. ok, at least humor me here. I remember when I was 7, I was in he 2nd grade and wasn't entertained by such mediocrity. But if today's kids in school are into this, I really doubt India's future. LOL ok, ok, just kidding...

I did spot the imac computer in their home ;) nice! Ok, back to the topic - the movie! The moment she entered, I knew the 'gangu tai' character was gonna be a very silly, slapstick one. And how dumb do the parents have to be to send their kid to the school with the gawar 'bai'! The stupid sequence in the kid's school was SO lame! I would rather watch tom and jerry or looney toones. Also, out of almost a billion people, they couldn't find ONE other decent actor? Wait... do they even need to act? Kids tease other kids naturally right? I guess I'm just pissed that harry potter guys have the best child actors, but we don't. Anyone else WITH me here?

The advisor who comes into his office with the proposal, WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH HIS ACCENT? I've been in mumbai, and I NEVER met anyone who speaks like that! Now, the story -  When I saw it was raining, I figured  story would go something like the kids get trapped in traffic due to the heavy rain, like the flash flood that happened in mumbai a couple years go. And then it would be his journey back home filled with adventures and trials and tribulations, and he makes new friends (including ganesh) and end of story! I would have LOVED THAT! because its more fast paced, more EXCITING, and would obviously make more sense than him going out and putting a rat in a bucket! with water!....Ok, even if he makes little holes for the water to get out, the mouse is TRAPPED!

Now lets get to the animation part. And that's about all I want to deal with. You know... there's only so much beating one little movie can take. haha...Now, in the title sequence itself, Ganesh stood out as the worst animated character! maybe even worst drawn... But the mouse was REALLY good. probably because they've had a lot of reference mouse animation to look at in the past. haha! The lipsync is SUPER AWFUL! I'd say tenali raman, a TV show had better lipsync than this. But because obviously, it was dubbed into multiple languages, your milage may vary depending on which version you saw. Ok, forget the dialogs... even the loud evil laugh wasn't very convincing. Not talking about exaggerating it to very cartoony levels for a human character, but I know humans can have more powerful laugh than what was in the movie. I just think the animators got LAZY!

So just 40 minutes into the movie, I say I can't take it anymore. utter rubbish! TRASH!

Now I totally believe her.

Few days ago, when I was with tay, she was telling me that animation as a profession as the second highest number of suicide cases. I checked on the internet but I didn't find anything that said that. But after watching this really funny animation on mytoons.com I was laughing my ass of and saying I totally believe her now!!!

Its made by a guy called christien clegg.

watch it!