The header is most definitely a cartoon!

This movie has to be one of the most brilliantly animated movies I have seen in a long time. The look and feel is like cut out pictures of body parts pieced together oddly. Metropia is one for the books, I mean who doesn’t love a mystery about mind control. As I type, I’m re-watching the first hour of the movie again in order to describe it correctly.

Either way, this movie’s animation alone sells it. The design is so different from most styles I’ve seen. And the concept matches the design so elegantly. Creating a dark mysterious world where seasons no  longer exist and there is actually a man behind a desk talking in your thoughts. A sad, sad world indeed.

Suggestion can be a power tool. Especially when you play along, as if, you have always been there. This is a Big Brother film, but I can’t get enough of them. Suggestion happens because we have senses, I mean, that’s simply it. But for someone to cognitively be aware of this and act to suggest their own will on a subject, is just plan terrifying. A place of dilapidated highrises and stuffed subway cars. No one bikes, in fact, it’s unlawful to do so in this world. Truly a sad, sad world.

I won’t go into the story because this is one I recommend you just stop reading and watch. It’s on Netflix if you got it.

Happy watching!!!

Robots and Wars are Cool

Lately, I’ve been watching an old anime classic from my childhood. Gundam Wing. As a child, I couldn’t see past the awesome robot battles and lasers. Let allow remember anything past the robots themselves. Upon watching it again, however, I found that is has a very strong message about the loss of innocence.

Normally, when people talk about loss of innocence it pertains to only one individual or a child coming of age. This has smashed in the entire spectrum. A world ransacked by war, where no country knows peace. War here is not fought simply through gun sights, but through the screen of a large mobile battle suits.  A few inhabitants of Earth decide to start colonies in space to try and govern peacefully/ find freedom. Although, the peace did not last long. Earth which is now controlled by Alliance has full domain of earth through military prowess.

In a last effort for peace, five colonies develop robots and send them to Earth to eradicate the organization of Alliance. Of course, Alliance finds out about this plan and attempts to foil said plans for the colonies. Little did they know, these pilots are not average pilots. Also, they are not men, but children.

Into this is where I begin this post. How far would we as humans go for peace? Where one of the advantages of your militaristic motive is the fact that one can hide children better than an adult soldier. And what would one have to do in order to train a child in to a calculating killing machine, also piloting a calculating killing machine. This loss of innocence was the first came to light. What of the idea of war? If a child believes in peace strongly enough, what makes a child different than a soldier? If one did not have innocence to begin with, what makes them not a soldier? The idea troubles me a little; also I have a 17 month old daughter, so that mainly affects my judgment against. Regardless, war destroys innocence for all parties. Families, soldiers, and even children everyone is in range. Is peace really worth all of this?

Apparently, this belief holds true to some. Some who believe that death is death, and peace is peace. Simplicity is logical when one is scared enough.

The first time is always awkward…

Hey, what’s up? This is Thomas Allen reporting from the smoking district of the SCAD Atlanta parking deck. For my first post I gonna take it down a notch and tell you a little about me and why I decided to create Looney Logic (LL). This blog is DEDICATED to all things animated. I myself happen to revolve my entire life around animation. Literally. As of now I have written a couple of scripts for Baby D (local Atlanta rapper) and Matt, a producer for NBC Universal.

The idea of creating vast universes and playing God, in a sense, excites and thrills me to no end. Animation is not an art form for me, but the very essence and emotions that drive mankind. In order to understand human culture and ideas that each individual is capable of creating, you must look into each individual. Each character has meaning just as each individual has life.

Only exception in animation is that individual can be ANYTHING. It could be a young girl who had to live through the end of the world, just to wake up in a world filled with trees that fight back to protect the forest. Or even as simple as just cyborg ninjas, flipping about in a way that no human could perform. All in all, this is what animation means to me. And with that said….

Welcome to Looney Logic.