CD - 3D

Alastair has been working on this film:

A Christmas Carol 3D

FYI:
Production year: 2009 ... like this month
Country: USA
Cert (UK): PG
Runtime: 95 mins
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Callum Blue, Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, Jim Carrey, Michael J Fox, Robin Wright Penn

I have to go and see it, of course, but in the meantime apparently it is full of motion -capture technology (that is where Our Man in Vancouver [Alastair Macleod, Head of Animation & Visual Effects at VFS] comes in) and other high-tech cinematic stuff.

What do the critics say?

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times: "Disney's A Christmas Carol by Robert Zemeckis (and Charles Dickens, of course) is an exhilarating visual experience and proves for the third time he's one of the few directors who knows what he's doing with 3-D," he writes. "The story that Dickens wrote in 1838 remains timeless, and if it's supercharged here with Scrooge swooping the London streets as freely as Superman, well, once you let ghosts into a movie, there's room for anything."

Wendy Ide of The Times: "Like it or not, almost from the very outset, chimney pot-skimming action is what we get. At times, it's like zapping through a Dickensian version of Google Earth. We are whisked from Stepney to St Paul's in the blink of an eye, leaving our lunches somewhere near Bow."

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Photo: Wikipedia with some input from Photoshop.