Cartoons

So how many of you out there are considered an “adult” yet still like to watch cartoon movies?! Because I know that I am still a big fan and I can’t seem to help but want to watch them! I like the old school kind but the new ones are pretty good too since the technical part of them are increasingly better and the animations seem more real. Take Ratatouille for example. The animation makes him almost seem like a real mouse doing these things with the lighting and all. But it also has that, ‘this is defiantly a cartoon movie’ because some of the stuff would never happen. I guess that could go for a lot of movies these days, especially action. A lot of the stuff these actors do in the action movies like driving a car through a building or breaking there legs on four places and keep doing the mission they are on, come on. But then again, I guess that’s why it is a movie and doesn’t happen in real life. Going back to cartoons; have you ever thought about all the time and effort it takes to make a cartoon movie? I know a lot of it now-a-days is done on the computer, but back in the day, they drew all that stuff by hand and it just blows my mind that someone had enough patience to sit down and draw all of those sequences. I give them a little clap for all that hard work. Don’t you? Unless of course you think it isn’t that hard. And if that’s the case I reckon you are a darn fine cartoonist yourself! Anyway, I just wanted to draw attention to the people ‘behind the scenes’ in all of those cartoon movies I enjoy, and hopefully you do too. Also, the people who read the scripts for the characters, like in Finding Nemo, are very impressive. They really get into character and let me tell you, they got jokes! It’s like they can see the animation as they are reading the script, heck for all I know they can. All I know is that they are fascinating!