Love, Death, and Robots: Season 1-Review
Love, Death, and Robots...A NSFW Animated Anthology brought to you by Netflix on March 15,2019. 18 Episodes in Season 1 totaling 215.10 minutes, just over 3.5 hours worth of individualized style and subject content. Simplistic in its coloring, typography, and even professional use of emoji like icons. Part of the rise of NSFW and a great homage piece to Artists!
Animation as an art form:
- Quasi-Realistic: per episode Shape-Shifter, this is very reminiscent of video game graphics and animation, getting more and more realistic as technology improves and it slowly replaces real experiences for younger generations.
- Live Action: per episode Ice Age, with two people moving in to their first apartment seeing a civilization in their fridge go from the Ice Age (like the title) to a futuristic city similar to Blade Runner.
- Photorealism: per episode The Secret War, this a style of art and sculpture characterized by the highly detailed depiction of ordinary life with the impersonality of a photograph. Most successfully achieved in this episode.
- Cel Shading: per episode The Fish Night, this style of animation is a type of non-photorealistic rendering designed to make 3-D computer graphics appear to be flat by using less shading color instead of a shade gradient or tints and shades.
- 2D: per episode Zima Blue, 2D animated short that was very stylized in an almost TV retro way.
- 3D: per episode When The Yogurt Took Over, which has a distinctive 3D animation that also is very chunky and stylized. Very reminiscent of Pixar.
- Keyframing: per episode The Witness, is a drawing that defines the starting and ending points of any smooth transition. ... A sequence of keyframes defines which movement the viewer will see, whereas the position of the keyframes on the film, video, or animation defines the timing of the movement. Other movies that have sported this style is Snow White and 101 Dalmations.
- Anime: per episode Sucker of Souls, most similar to Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro in 1979, this is a very simple famous old school almost 2D way of animating. Some even say Johnny Quest in the 1960's.
Genre & Sub Genre:
- Sci-fi: Science Fiction is kind an overtone and the overall genre of the whole season with some sub genres. It typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, time travel, parallel universes, fictional worlds, space exploration, and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific innovations.
- Fantasy: Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often inspired by real world myth and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became literature and drama. From the twentieth century it has expanded further into various media, including film, television, graphic novels and video games.
- Horror: Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing".[1] It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere. Horror is frequently supernatural, though it can be non-supernatural. Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society.
Meta:
-What is Meta: per episode Three Robots, funny enough this is the first time I heard of the anthology series due to the fact that in this episode they went very meta. Exploding Kittens is a card game that came out in the last 5 years that has gained a lot of popularity (I myself play it). Exploding Kittens is mentioned as a throwback fact in the episode which also ends up tying into the twist at the end.
Whether you like something you saw for the first time, or enjoy seeing something again you already recognized-There is something in this show for just about everyone. Most people can even get behind one of the many genres and sub genres. In our modern culture of opinions, most people have found some way to justify talking about this show. Something interesting to note, is that no two reviews of the same show are the same. There is so much to see and dig in to, that even going in depth you will miss something someone else sees.
I do not usually like or do reviews, and yet I really enjoyed doing this review for the subject matter and format. I like actually giving the content and the review itself space and letting them be two halves of a whole. Let me know what you thought of the review style! Coming next is holiday marketing, we will see you then.
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Animation as an art form:
- Quasi-Realistic: per episode Shape-Shifter, this is very reminiscent of video game graphics and animation, getting more and more realistic as technology improves and it slowly replaces real experiences for younger generations.
- Live Action: per episode Ice Age, with two people moving in to their first apartment seeing a civilization in their fridge go from the Ice Age (like the title) to a futuristic city similar to Blade Runner.
- Photorealism: per episode The Secret War, this a style of art and sculpture characterized by the highly detailed depiction of ordinary life with the impersonality of a photograph. Most successfully achieved in this episode.
- Cel Shading: per episode The Fish Night, this style of animation is a type of non-photorealistic rendering designed to make 3-D computer graphics appear to be flat by using less shading color instead of a shade gradient or tints and shades.
- 2D: per episode Zima Blue, 2D animated short that was very stylized in an almost TV retro way.
- 3D: per episode When The Yogurt Took Over, which has a distinctive 3D animation that also is very chunky and stylized. Very reminiscent of Pixar.
- Keyframing: per episode The Witness, is a drawing that defines the starting and ending points of any smooth transition. ... A sequence of keyframes defines which movement the viewer will see, whereas the position of the keyframes on the film, video, or animation defines the timing of the movement. Other movies that have sported this style is Snow White and 101 Dalmations.
- Anime: per episode Sucker of Souls, most similar to Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro in 1979, this is a very simple famous old school almost 2D way of animating. Some even say Johnny Quest in the 1960's.
Genre & Sub Genre:
- Sci-fi: Science Fiction is kind an overtone and the overall genre of the whole season with some sub genres. It typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, time travel, parallel universes, fictional worlds, space exploration, and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific innovations.
- Fantasy: Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often inspired by real world myth and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became literature and drama. From the twentieth century it has expanded further into various media, including film, television, graphic novels and video games.
- Horror: Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing".[1] It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere. Horror is frequently supernatural, though it can be non-supernatural. Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society.
Meta:
-What is Meta: per episode Three Robots, funny enough this is the first time I heard of the anthology series due to the fact that in this episode they went very meta. Exploding Kittens is a card game that came out in the last 5 years that has gained a lot of popularity (I myself play it). Exploding Kittens is mentioned as a throwback fact in the episode which also ends up tying into the twist at the end.
Whether you like something you saw for the first time, or enjoy seeing something again you already recognized-There is something in this show for just about everyone. Most people can even get behind one of the many genres and sub genres. In our modern culture of opinions, most people have found some way to justify talking about this show. Something interesting to note, is that no two reviews of the same show are the same. There is so much to see and dig in to, that even going in depth you will miss something someone else sees.
I do not usually like or do reviews, and yet I really enjoyed doing this review for the subject matter and format. I like actually giving the content and the review itself space and letting them be two halves of a whole. Let me know what you thought of the review style! Coming next is holiday marketing, we will see you then.
P:(657) 246-2298-Email Me - Moxi Zombi Marketing - Blog-Twitter - Instagram - Facebook - Flickr - LinkedIn
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