{"id":12897,"date":"2012-12-30T09:17:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T22:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=12897"},"modified":"2012-12-30T09:32:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T22:32:49","slug":"cinema-of-the-backbrain-presents-attack-of-the-daikaiju-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/30\/cinema-of-the-backbrain-presents-attack-of-the-daikaiju-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinema of the Backbrain Presents: Attack of the Daikaiju Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time ago, the following image appeared in one of the Worth1000<\/a> thematic image-creation competitions — a lovely piece of digital manipulation using the latest Photoshop technology (created by “boofhead”):<\/p>\n

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But the idea of a rampaging giant cat didn’t begin here. Before this, animator Terry Gilliam defended the world from a plague of Killer Cars in the Monty Python’s Flying Circus<\/em> episode: “How To Recognize Different Parts of The Body” (1970), using not digital manipulation but hand-crafted cut-out methods:<\/p>\n

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And of course the Goodies inflicted London with a rampaging real-life kitten in the form of “Kitten Kong” (1971), using miniature sets and super-imposed video:<\/p>\n

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Now, after a bit of a hiatus, however, the Cinema of the Backbrain brings you the latest daikaiju cat — Catzilla<\/em>. This brief tale of a giant laser-eyed feline and his downfall was created as a demo video by Poland’s Plastic Demoscene Group in collaboration with Platige Image using spectacular state-of-the-art digital animation:<\/p>\n

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Though the Goodies’ Kitten Kong might have provided more plot,\u00a0Catzilla<\/strong> (Poland-2012; animation, short [approx. 2:43 min.]; dir. Bartlomiej Kik and Jakub Jablonski) offers a frenetic, eye-popping spectacle that is both fun and very, very cool.<\/p>\n

Check it out on the Cinema of the Backbrain<\/a> now.<\/p>\n

Source<\/strong>: via Twitchfilm<\/a> and Avery Guerra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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