Animated Film Critique for Lightwave 3D animation class. A look at "Final Fantasy: The spirits within"

After watching "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" on DVD, I can assuredly say that I was very impressed. This feature length animated story used the latest technology in modeling, design/creation of characters and sets, lighting, special effects and motion tracking, all for the purpose of creating a very new kind of narrative story. Based on the story line of the highly popular game "Final Fantasy" this movie involved the battle between a dying human …

…looks gloomy, adding to the foreboding sense of doom of the wasteland of the "old world". The list of elements goes on and on. It took a lot of people working in a creative flow together, trying different concepts, building the film layer upon layer, board upon board, model upon model to end in the final product. A good use of computer and graphic arts to do what good movies do; tell a good story.