I was so excited when I got the DVDs of The Man Who Planted Trees from inter library loan. Despite having a pressing assignment deadline, I just have to watch it.

It is so so so incredibly beautiful - Frederick Back's work is just so beautiful that I was so mesmerized, and so inspired. The story - is also so beautiful only Frederick Back could have been able to produce the animation for it....

I really love hand drawn animation ... it has such charm and beauty that i find kind of missing in 3D...
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A gust of unusually strong wind blows, with dust hitting my teary half closed eyes. Walking out of COFA on the dawn of week 9 preso on 23 September at 5 am, I was bewildered to see Oxford street turning so red. We would not have a lot to show on week 9 preso -- only the establishing shots and shots of Jaws waking Anna -- as I'd just managed to make the blink blendshapes and Anna's sleeping pose, and not started on any animation... after grappling with the difficult paint weights of Anna and h...
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