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Infinity's Child

Infinity's Child

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not as much of a story as Planetary Traveler
Review: I was sort of disappointed with this one. In Planetary Traveler you got the visual flight logs of a star faring race called the Phleig and their search for a world from which they could leap to the next level of existence. In this movie a ship has found it so the others come to explore and in my view the story starts to slip there. You get a short view of mother ships and small exploratory craft leaving them to head for the new world. They very quickly cross over into another realm, it's just a picture show from there on out. Technically Infinity's Child is a great improvement over Planetary Traveler, everything is much more three dimensionally rendered, the colors are great and the fluid effect in some scenes is amazing- too bad it's just a picture show.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It went from Work to the home.
Review: I worked at Natural Wonders, a store that specializes in unique gifts, music, and video. Infinity's Child came into the store and I played in over the audio/video system in the store. After watching 10 minutes of the video I bought it and took it home. To sit down and watch this as a feature film is hardly what should be done. If you are entertaing friends or relaxing around the home or exercising; pop the video in and turn the sound up. It makes for great background music and video. I exercise to it and just enjoy the flowing techno / new age score and the dazzling colors.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Vivid Representation of the Bhuddist Path of Enlightenment
Review: I would be interested to know whether or not H.H. the Dalai Lama has had an opportunity to view this piece...

The movie seemed to me to be an exploration of Bhuddist Path of Enlightenment, as traveled through Dream Yoga to attain Clear Light.

Terrific movie, with or without interpretation.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: WOAH!
Review: Imagine this......a Yes album comes alive on your screen. If that sounds hot to you, get this DVD. It'll blow your head off!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Another fine work from Nickman
Review: Infinity's Child takes Jan Nickman's work to a new level. Already know for cutting edge animation work, Nickman breaks new ground in this production. He's created a perfect trip film here. The visuals are incredible, with computer animation some of the best I have seen, and the music is simply drilling.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: 60+ Chapter stops of useless video
Review: Let's get something straight, animation is a lot more than moving images on screen! How could Jan Nickman been allowed to produce such a vapid foray in computer animation, let alone win awards for it. First some details: it's about 40 minutes long, includes a Dolby 5.1 Audio soundtrack, it's Full Screen (4:3 aspect ratio), not much af a menu to speak of and very few Extras.

Where is the character development? Where is the plot development, beyond the poorly written and equally poorly annuciated voice over track in the begining? Where are the award winning aminations and score worthy of a Grammy nominated composer such as Paul Haslinger? Where is the magic from animation wizard Rodney L'Ognion? Oh wait, they don't exist. At least not in this film.

As for being a "trip film", it's a trip best missed. All told, this film is yet another example of some half baked idea sold to those who need to be fully baked to watch it.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: 60+ Chapter stops of useless video
Review: Let's get something straight, animation is a lot more than moving images on screen! How could Jan Nickman been allowed to produce such a vapid foray in computer animation, let alone win awards for it. First some details: it's about 40 minutes long, includes a Dolby 5.1 Audio soundtrack, it's Full Screen (4:3 aspect ratio), not much af a menu to speak of and very few Extras.

Where is the character development? Where is the plot development, beyond the poorly written and equally poorly annuciated voice over track in the begining? Where are the award winning aminations and score worthy of a Grammy nominated composer such as Paul Haslinger? Where is the magic from animation wizard Rodney L'Ognion? Oh wait, they don't exist. At least not in this film.

As for being a "trip film", it's a trip best missed. All told, this film is yet another example of some half baked idea sold to those who need to be fully baked to watch it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good but Definitely Could Have Been Better
Review: This CGI movie is not for anyone looking for a movie with meaning. As the artist pointed out in the interview, the images "do not have any meaning" and the things are just imaginary images. Also, the movie starts with a commentary that the fleet is moving out to a location which is believed to be a "gateway to realities beyond",.... "a bridge to a shift in consciousness gateway world"... Well, does this make sense? Don't try to make sense, any sense of this movie. This is what this movie is about---simply an imaginary exploration of worlds in space, fancy images, eye-catching colors and reflections... right up to the end of the approx-40-minute movie. The commentary at the end of the movie is just a commentary... try not to make any sense of it... Certainly do not try to debate about the statement that "everything exists".

What this movie suffers is perhaps it should have held the idea of travelling more closely than at times producing scenes which doen't quite look like scenes but say, a pattern tesselating at a fixed position on your computer monitor. The effects could be better if the artist make the scene more like a scene---for example moving within or across the tesselation. Unfortunately there are quite a number of scenes that do not seem to be so, only more than tesselating patterns at the center of the computer monitor. Some images look rather 'flat' and nothing of a virtual world in space. These should have been taken out or improved.

But on the whole, the imagery was great. Great artwork... lots of reflective surfaces and also "fluid" stuff... The music was nice and suits the images and changes in scenes.

Greatly appreciate the work being done but I wouldn't say that it is good to the point of being described as stunning... but it is a good piece of work.

The interviews with the 4 persons was a plus. Here they talk about the issues related to the production, etc... and I share the same view as the artist's that the computer is capable of showing an artist's imaginary world and his enthusiasm in CGI.

As a final assessment whether you might like this movie, download and watch the trailer at www.inifinityschild.com (over 19 MBytes) which contains quite a number of the better scenes in the movie. If you are not a great "fan" of Computer Graphics Imagery, this sort of movie would be rather boring to you.

I would like to give this DVD 3.75 stars... almost 4 stars.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good but Definitely Could Have Been Better
Review: This CGI movie is not for anyone looking for a movie with meaning. As the artist pointed out in the interview, the images "do not have any meaning" and the things are just imaginary images. Also, the movie starts with a commentary that the fleet is moving out to a location which is believed to be a "gateway to realities beyond",.... "a bridge to a shift in consciousness gateway world"... Well, does this make sense? Don't try to make sense, any sense of this movie. This is what this movie is about---simply an imaginary exploration of worlds in space, fancy images, eye-catching colors and reflections... right up to the end of the approx-40-minute movie. The commentary at the end of the movie is just a commentary... try not to make any sense of it... Certainly do not try to debate about the statement that "everything exists".

What this movie suffers is perhaps it should have held the idea of travelling more closely than at times producing scenes which doen't quite look like scenes but say, a pattern tesselating at a fixed position on your computer monitor. The effects could be better if the artist make the scene more like a scene---for example moving within or across the tesselation. Unfortunately there are quite a number of scenes that do not seem to be so, only more than tesselating patterns at the center of the computer monitor. Some images look rather 'flat' and nothing of a virtual world in space. These should have been taken out or improved.

But on the whole, the imagery was great. Great artwork... lots of reflective surfaces and also "fluid" stuff... The music was nice and suits the images and changes in scenes.

Greatly appreciate the work being done but I wouldn't say that it is good to the point of being described as stunning... but it is a good piece of work.

The interviews with the 4 persons was a plus. Here they talk about the issues related to the production, etc... and I share the same view as the artist's that the computer is capable of showing an artist's imaginary world and his enthusiasm in CGI.

As a final assessment whether you might like this movie, download and watch the trailer at www.inifinityschild.com (over 19 MBytes) which contains quite a number of the better scenes in the movie. If you are not a great "fan" of Computer Graphics Imagery, this sort of movie would be rather boring to you.

I would like to give this DVD 3.75 stars... almost 4 stars.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good but Definitely Could Have Been Better
Review: This CGI movie is not for anyone looking for a movie with meaning. As the artist pointed out in the interview, the images "do not have any meaning" and the things are just imaginary images. Also, the movie starts with a commentary that the fleet is moving out to a location which is believed to be a "gateway to realities beyond",.... "a bridge to a shift in consciousness gateway world"... Well, does this make sense? Don't try to make sense, any sense of this movie. This is what this movie is about---simply an imaginary exploration of worlds in space, fancy images, eye-catching colors and reflections... right up to the end of the approx-40-minute movie. The commentary at the end of the movie is just a commentary... try not to make any sense of it... Certainly do not try to debate about the statement that "everything exists".

What this movie suffers is perhaps it should have held the idea of travelling more closely than at times producing scenes which doen't quite look like scenes but say, a pattern tesselating at a fixed position on your computer monitor. The effects could be better if the artist make the scene more like a scene---for example moving within or across the tesselation. Unfortunately there are quite a number of scenes that do not seem to be so, only more than tesselating patterns at the center of the computer monitor. Some images look rather 'flat' and nothing of a virtual world in space. These should have been taken out or improved.

But on the whole, the imagery was great. Great artwork... lots of reflective surfaces and also "fluid" stuff... The music was nice and suits the images and changes in scenes.

Greatly appreciate the work being done but I wouldn't say that it is good to the point of being described as stunning... but it is a good piece of work.

The interviews with the 4 persons was a plus. Here they talk about the issues related to the production, etc... and I share the same view as the artist's that the computer is capable of showing an artist's imaginary world and his enthusiasm in CGI.

As a final assessment whether you might like this movie, download and watch the trailer at www.inifinityschild.com (over 19 MBytes) which contains quite a number of the better scenes in the movie. If you are not a great "fan" of Computer Graphics Imagery, this sort of movie would be rather boring to you.

I would like to give this DVD 3.75 stars... almost 4 stars.


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