Flushed Away

[lovingboth]

.. is very very good. Aardman claymation visual style plus a very British sense of humour done with Dreamworks computer animation.

I see Pixar are doing a 'rat' film: their's have beautifully animated fur, while these don't even have combed plasticine 'fur'.

I saw the trailer for both afterwards and there's an interesting difference between 'FA - the trailer' and 'FA - the film'.

In the trailer, Rodney has two servants (e.g. he tells them to "go and warm the Jacuzzi.."). In the film, he doesn't have any non-human live companions.

Presumably they got cut out in order to make his plight - being alone, without a 'family' - more credible. "Who do you live with?" "Oh, erm, well, my family... and two servants!" Not quite as good.

But it's interesting that their sequences were fully animated before this happened... or was this done specially for the trailer to increase the effect of the 'luxury to sewer' transition?

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[sbisson.livejournal.com]

I understand it was originally going to be claymation, and then switched to CG after the fire...

[lovingboth]

Ah ha -

[Hugh]Jackman smilingly recalls how his Roddy the Rat changed over the course of the two years he worked on the film. "At the beginning, he was more upper class, almost royal with that aristocratic attitude. He had two hamsters who were his servants, so, the whole thing, going down into the sewer, was more, "Oh, you people." It was a little bit removed and snobbish, which actually made him not very likable. So, we changed it from being that to being more sheltered, as he lives in this pampered life, doesn't think of himself as a rat, but as a James Bond character who is having the time of his life."