Monster Roll Review
A review of a short CGI-ed film
Producer- Lochner, Dan Blank, & Sarah Blank
Title- Monster Roll
I thought that the story and first amount of clips showing the painting, tattoo, first giant sea monster, etc was really interesting and got me invested to watch the rest to find out the story. They mainly just used editing software and some CGI to create the sea life, and the shark getting eaten by the Giant Eel.
A very impressive moment was when the octopus tentacle was stuck in the sink because it was impaled. From what we could see was a tentacle with a metal soup spoon stabbed through it causing it to be unable to go back into the sink. All that was actually used was metal wires and an actual mental spoon. The metal wires were like a skeleton for them to CGI an octopus's actual skin and to make the "it getting stuck" even more realistic is that they had the wire tied around the spoon and made the spoon bang against the sink.
Another very impressive scene was when the octopus emerges from the hole to fight the sushi chefs. Surprisenly they CGI-ed that whole part. From what we know even the hole it came from was CGI. The only part that was real is the chefs standing there. When the guy who did a flip gets thrown it's actually a green screen and they just make it disappear and CGI the body flying behind the octopus and to the horizon. They used a lot of VFX and animation just to get that octopus moving and squirming around with some enhanced imagery to make the screen look like it just got splashed.
They made the mood feel intense. They enhanced images so it looked better than real life and the shots they did with the faces with all of those expressions definitely set a mood. The main thing that made it feel intense was the first attack with the octopus but what finalized the mood was the series of clips with the chefs fighting the giant sea monsters. The way they made it felt action packed and also worried with thoughts like "Will some survive", "Who's gonna win," etc. They even enhanced the clips images to make it look like so much more is happening.
I thought it was really well done. With how they made subtle changes along with the big ones is something I don't see much. Even though I could tell that it was obviously CGI it was still very well done with interacting with real life things like the chefs and props. How they enhanced all the imagery was cool I felt like in some places it was too much. I'm sad that this isn't an actual movie because I would believe that it would be awesome to watch if it was as well done as it was in the short CGI film. Using CGI is honestly really cool because it can make peoples imaginations real and bring whole new worlds to life.
Producer- Lochner, Dan Blank, & Sarah Blank
Title- Monster Roll
I thought that the story and first amount of clips showing the painting, tattoo, first giant sea monster, etc was really interesting and got me invested to watch the rest to find out the story. They mainly just used editing software and some CGI to create the sea life, and the shark getting eaten by the Giant Eel.
A very impressive moment was when the octopus tentacle was stuck in the sink because it was impaled. From what we could see was a tentacle with a metal soup spoon stabbed through it causing it to be unable to go back into the sink. All that was actually used was metal wires and an actual mental spoon. The metal wires were like a skeleton for them to CGI an octopus's actual skin and to make the "it getting stuck" even more realistic is that they had the wire tied around the spoon and made the spoon bang against the sink.
Another very impressive scene was when the octopus emerges from the hole to fight the sushi chefs. Surprisenly they CGI-ed that whole part. From what we know even the hole it came from was CGI. The only part that was real is the chefs standing there. When the guy who did a flip gets thrown it's actually a green screen and they just make it disappear and CGI the body flying behind the octopus and to the horizon. They used a lot of VFX and animation just to get that octopus moving and squirming around with some enhanced imagery to make the screen look like it just got splashed.They made the mood feel intense. They enhanced images so it looked better than real life and the shots they did with the faces with all of those expressions definitely set a mood. The main thing that made it feel intense was the first attack with the octopus but what finalized the mood was the series of clips with the chefs fighting the giant sea monsters. The way they made it felt action packed and also worried with thoughts like "Will some survive", "Who's gonna win," etc. They even enhanced the clips images to make it look like so much more is happening.
I thought it was really well done. With how they made subtle changes along with the big ones is something I don't see much. Even though I could tell that it was obviously CGI it was still very well done with interacting with real life things like the chefs and props. How they enhanced all the imagery was cool I felt like in some places it was too much. I'm sad that this isn't an actual movie because I would believe that it would be awesome to watch if it was as well done as it was in the short CGI film. Using CGI is honestly really cool because it can make peoples imaginations real and bring whole new worlds to life.
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