Ponyo/Feb DSLR Project Update

I got to see Hayao Miyazaki's "Ponyo" yesterday which he did in collaboration with Disney. I've been a fan of Miyazaki's work especially since I grew up watching "Totoro" on VHS before my double digit days.

This is one of those movies that make me feel nostalgic about adolescence and how everything can seem so magical from a child's point of view. I'm not a super big fan of a lot of Japanese animation today, but it's good to see that there is still some out there that are still being hand drawn.

To keep things brief, the story is about Miyazaki's vision of the much familiar "Little Mermaid" story. Like much of Miyazaki's work, there are a lot of mystical and magical tones to his films and "Ponyo" is no exception. The plot wasn't anything sophisticated or flashy, but that's what made the film so much easier to take in. Allowing me to not get too drowned out in the plot meant for a very relaxed viewing in which the visuals took the front stage to help tell the story of Miyazaki's vision of Ponyo's world.

The world in which Miyazaki fabricated to house this story is nothing less than breathtaking. Many of his films are located in some sort of countryside type terrain, usually involving forests or a rural town. In "Ponyo", we get to see his perspective of the sea which I think is one of his best yet. I have this weird affinity for water and just love the way he portrayed a small port town and his use of speckled light hitting the ocean floor underneath. I can go on and on about how visually amazing this film is, but I highly suggest to check it out for yourself.

As for other news, I'm currently on Spring Break and couldn't be more thankful to have a week to myself. I'm happy to say I've finished cutting the February DSLR Project I've been working on and I'm about to move on to color correcting.

I should be able to finish everything up by this week but I don't plan to post it up until sometime later. I'm currently trying to save some money so I can buy a Vimeo Plus account so I can upload it in HD and so I can upload files bigger than 500 mb's. Hopefully that will be sometime soon!