Jamie Hewlett Interview

On YouTube here.

It's an interesting clip, talking about inspiration and film references.

I really like the style of his work, and it works well for short format commercial pieces. He seems to not like the US take on current feature animation which is unsurprising. Story is always a magic element that seems very hard to nail in this glut of inferior product.

I don't like the CG representations of his characters at all - their appeal being totally lost in translation, and I am surprised that they have been used as extensively as they have. The disparate animation style to the rest of the (2D) imagery also seems jarring to me. Maybe dirtying it up a bit with some two's, four's and longer held poses would have worked better than the normal computer spline motion? It could even have been retimed in 2D to get a more Anime feel out of it, so although not a mistake by any means, it just seems like that component of it is a missed opportunity. Am I being too picky? Maybe.

Hmmm... I wonder if there's a compilation DVD of the Gorillaz videos. That would be ace...