Wasteland

got to recommend this for a friend's movie night screening! i'm still so in love with jonni's art, it really captures the roughest, crudest and most earnest style of doodling- goodbye forever party and ascensia are simply must watches.

got to recommend this for a friend's movie night screening! i'm still so in love with jonni's art, it really captures the roughest, crudest and most earnest style of doodling- goodbye forever party and ascensia are simply must watches.

As much as I wanted to enjoy this anthology, it just didn’t do that much for me. The first part, third part, and fourth part were the ones I thought were just alright and didn’t really explore as much as I thought. But the second part was actually great while having me invested until it ended and got fine again. And the final part is basically just Disciples of Ascensia which is fantastic by itself, but compared to the other parts, it made the whole anthology okay overall.

As much as I wanted to enjoy this anthology, it just didn’t do that much for me. The first part, third part, and fourth part were the ones I thought were just alright and didn’t really explore as much as I thought. But the second part was actually great while having me invested until it ended and got fine again. And the final part is basically just Disciples of Ascensia which is fantastic by itself, but compared to the other parts, it made the whole anthology okay overall.

This was definitely a strange out of body experience. What I love about this film is that it takes these different stories and intersect them in a way to showcase that they’re similar in many ways. It holds the same effective, absurd, over the top humor about mental illness and the drive to live a life but it constantly gives a different effect each time it’s used. 

The different perspectives that animation could tackle really blow my mind every time I see a new style. This film mainly uses this paper cutout style with the edges of the paper being rough edged. The paper being rough edged and the character models being drawn differently every frame gives a real depiction of a person which is flawed and full of mistakes.

There’s rarely any usage of bright and vibrant colors and when there is, it’s used to show an outer worldly image as if it’s something beyond ourselves. When it does use color on the living characters and their world, the colors seem more dull as if they’re fading. Mainly they live in a black and white world and it perfectly values the way we live. Black and white are two opposites and they’re easy to differentiate but we’re blinded by the fact that we tell the two apart that we forget how complex those two colors are. 

The idea of existentialism plays a huge part in this film since it tackles mental illness and struggles we deal in reality. People crave the need to know what to live for. Is it the afterlife they should live for or is it for the people and experiences around them? It makes a huge point on living for one’s self but not in a self-centered light. Even though we live in a world full of over complicated complexities with the world forever moving and changing, adapting to the world and ourselves is what creates the worth in life.

This was definitely a strange out of body experience. What I love about this film is that it takes these different stories and intersect them in a way to showcase that they’re similar in many ways. It holds the same effective, absurd, over the top humor about mental illness and the drive to live a life but it constantly gives a different effect each time it’s used. 

The different perspectives that animation could tackle really blow my mind every time I see a new style. This film mainly uses this paper cutout style with the edges of the paper being rough edged. The paper being rough edged and the character models being drawn differently every frame gives a real depiction of a person which is flawed and full of mistakes.

There’s rarely any usage of bright and vibrant colors and when there is, it’s used to show an outer worldly image as if it’s something beyond ourselves. When it does use color on the living characters and their world, the colors seem more dull as if they’re fading. Mainly they live in a black and white world and it perfectly values the way we live. Black and white are two opposites and they’re easy to differentiate but we’re blinded by the fact that we tell the two apart that we forget how complex those two colors are. 

The idea of existentialism plays a huge part in this film since it tackles mental illness and struggles we deal in reality. People crave the need to know what to live for. Is it the afterlife they should live for or is it for the people and experiences around them? It makes a huge point on living for one’s self but not in a self-centered light. Even though we live in a world full of over complicated complexities with the world forever moving and changing, adapting to the world and ourselves is what creates the worth in life.

jonni phillips: 1animation industry: 0

jonni phillips: 1animation industry: 0

rewatched this and just wanted to Say that the sound design of this is INSANELY GOOD so mega props to jonni phillips ily girl

rewatched this and just wanted to Say that the sound design of this is INSANELY GOOD so mega props to jonni phillips ily girl