They made a choice that makes their movie look a notch
above other studio comedies.
Not exact matches
While Surf's Up never approaches the quality of those two films, it's head and shoulders
above what most
other CGI
studios have been offering the past few years.
At IMDb, it carries a user rating of 7.8, a most respectable score that ranks it
above most animated films made by
studios other than Ghibli and Pixar.
On the
other, quieter side of the building, a skilled group of Ninja Theory veterans — around 12 - 13 staff and never likely to rise
above 15 — are completely reworking the way the games
studio has traditionally functioned, in order to make Hellblade.
On the
other hand, the school's strong emphasis on the
studio prioritizes creative development
above all else.
Fittingly, the music playing his
studio as he works is often by Brahms, the composer he loves
above all
others.
On the
other two walls of the main gallery, which are painted a customary white, there is an oil painting of blue balls on a white field, «Bloobs» (2014) by Mathew Cerletty; a loopy, oddly affecting drawing, «Untitled (shit)» (2011) by David Shrigley, of concentric circles emanating from the word «shit»; Vern Blosum's «Off The Hook» (2015), a larger - than - life - size graphite drawing of a vintage payphone with its receiver dangling, appropriately, off the hook; and Emily Mae Smith's «The
Studio (Science Fiction)» (2015), which depicts the split halves of an eggshell hovering
above a flying saucer / fried egg, the edge of its white perimeter forming the words «THE
STUDIO» against the starry blackness of outer space.
«Joseph Solman, a painter who, with Mark Rothko and
other modernists, helped shape American art as early as the 1930s and, into a new century, continued to paint in his
studio above the Second Avenue Deli in New York, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan,» Michael Kimmelman writes in the NY Times obituary.
Scholder happened upon the diptych format when she placed two individual works one
above the
other in the
studio, and liked the effect.
For the duration of the weekend, galleries,
studios, warehouses, basements, parking lots and
other locales will be open to the public daily, with artists (such as Samantha French, whose work is pictured
above) milling around to discuss their works.