Kaena: La prophétie (2003)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.1/10   

Directors:

Chris Delaporte
Pascal Pinon

Escritores:

Patrick Daher (story)
Chris Delaporte (screenplay)
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Fecha de Lanzamiento:

4 junio 2003 (France)

Género:

Acción | Aventura | Animación | Familia | Fantasía | Ciencia-Ficción

Plot:

AXIS, a gigantic coiling plant, stretches high above the clouds... At its center is a village whose...

Plot Keywords:

Priest | High Priest | Sap | Love | Planet

Premios:

1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Not a CGI revolution, but not terrible.

Reparto

Cécile De France	...	Kaena (voice: French version)
Michael Lonsdale	...	Opaz (voice: French version)
Victoria Abril	...	La reine (voice: French version)
François Siener	...	Voxem (voice: French version)
Jean-Michel Farcy	...	Assad (voice: French version)
Raymond Aquaviva	...	Gommy (voice: French version)
Jean Piat	...	Le grand prêtre (voice: French version)
Kirsten Dunst	...	Kaena (voice: English version)
Richard Harris	...	Opaz (voice: English version)
Anjelica Huston	...	Queen of the Selenites (voice: English version)
Keith David	...	Voxem (voice: English version)
Michael McShane	...	Assad (voice: English version)
Greg Proops	...	Gommy (voice: English version)
Tom Kenny	...	Zehos (voice: English version)
Tara Strong	...	Essy (voice: English version)
Dwight Schultz	...	Ilpo (voice: English version)
Gary Martin	...	The Priest (voice: English version)
John Di Maggio	...	Enode (voice: English version)
Ciara Janson	...	Kamou / Roya (voice: English version)
William Attenborough	...	Sambo (voice: English version)
Jennifer Darling	...	Reya (voice: English version)
Cornell John	...	Demok (voice: English version)

Dirigida por
Chris Delaporte
Pascal Pinon

Créditos del guión (en orden alfabético)
Patrick Daher		story
Chris Delaporte		screenplay
Chris Delaporte		story
Tarik Hamdine		screenplay
Benjamin Legrand		dialogue
Kenneth Oppel		screenplay collaboration

Música original por
Farid Russlan

Montaje por
Bénédicte Brunet

Dirección de producción
Marie-Cecile Dahan	....	production supervisor
Odile Pérrin	....	production manager

Departamento de sonido
Tom D. Backman	....	sound editor
Evan T. Chen	....	sound editor
Jake Eberle	....	sound designer
Jake Eberle	....	sound effects editor
Eric Justen	....	additional sound re-recording mixer
Eric Lewis	....	assistant dialogue recording engineer
Jonathan Miller	....	supervising sound editor
Shelley Roden	....	foley artist
Ernie Sheesley	....	dialogue recordist
Jonathan Wales	....	sound re-recording mixer
Elliot Anders	....	adr editor (uncredited)
Ken Galvin	....	dialogue recordist (uncredited)

Efectos especiales
Gamiette Rémi	....	character animator

Visual Effects
Harry Bardak	....	compositing supervisor
Erwann Baudet	....	digital effects artist
Katrina Conwright	....	lead character animator
Frédéric Côté	....	character animator
Marc Cote	....	motion capture lead engineer
Michael Cozens	....	character animator
David Danesi	....	visual effects supervisor
Lapierre Franck-Noel	....	lighting and compositing artist
Brent Paul George	....	lead character animator
Phillip Giles	....	animation director
Marc-André Guindon	....	motion capture director
Laurent Herveic	....	lighting and compositing
Steven Hornby	....	character animator
Michel Kinfoussia	....	visual effects supervisor
Jason Kreller	....	character animator
Yannick Leblanc	....	technical director animation
Franck Malmin	....	technical director
Sonia Pronovost	....	animator
Pascal Raimbault	....	digital models supervisor
Richard Raimbault	....	lead modeller
Nicolas Seck	....	CG animator: MPC
Stéphane Soubiran	....	visual effects
Anthony Sparapani	....	senior animator
Patrick Tasse	....	junior animator
Philippe Zerounian	....	character animator

Departamento de Animación
Julia Bordeau	....	texture artist
Michael Brunet	....	animator
Michael Douaud	....	layout artist
Marco Foglia	....	animator
Benoît Gagné	....	animator
Emilio Ghorayeb	....	animator
Jean Marc Ky	....	animator
Andrew Ogawa	....	animator
Cory Rogers	....	animator (uncredited)

Departamento de reparto
Jack Fletcher	....	casting: English voices

Departamento de Música
Bruno Mercere	....	music mixer
James Shearman	....	orchestrator
Youki Yamamoto	....	assistant orchestrator

Otros miembros del equipo
Sofia Ashen	....	adr loop group
Richard Cote	....	production assistant
Jack Fletcher	....	voice director: English voices
Stefan Ashton Frank	....	adr loop group
Eric Meyers	....	adr loop group
Regina Reagan	....	adr loop group
Eric Vallee	....	production coordinator

Compañías Productores

• Chaman Productions
• Studio Canal
• TVA International

Distribuidores

• Bac Films (2004) (France) (theatrical)
• Studio Canal (2004) (France) (DVD) (special edition)
• Cathay-Keris Films (2004) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Cinergia (Ukraine)
• Europa Filmes (2006) (Brazil) (DVD)
• GAGA Communications (Japan) (theatrical)
• Media Cooperation One (MC-One) (2006) (Germany) (DVD)
• Prooptiki Video (Greece) (DVD)
• Samuel Goldwyn Films (2004) (USA)
• United King Films (Israel)
• Universal Pictures Finland Oy (2008) (Finland) (DVD)

Efectos especiales

• Realities Studio

Otras Compañías

• SIF309 Film & Music Productions  film score recording
• Screen Music Studios (SMS)  dialogue recording facilities
• Sonic Magic  sound post-production

También conocida como:

Axis (USA) (working title)
Gaïna (France) (working title)
Kaena: The Prophecy (USA)
Kaena - La profecia (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sensuality and some frightening images.

Duración:

85 min

País:

France | Canada

Idioma:

Inglés | Francés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Canada:PG (Ontario) | Germany:12 | Australia:PG | France:U | USA:PG-13 | Singapore:PG

Compañía:

Chaman Productions

Trivialidades:

Was dedicated to the memory of Richard Harris (voice of Opaz in the English version).

Not a CGI revolution, but not terrible.

KAENA isn't bad, but it is just not what is considered "ground-breaking," and there are many who claim it is. It's impressive considering that it was done on a low budget and dreampt up by people who at the beginning of the project had very little knowledge of film-making. KAENA is a great example of how a little resourcefulness can pull the rabbit out of the hat, but overall it certainly is not a revolution in CGI animation.

This is why it is not a CGI revolution: -Sometimes they had to cut corners by reducing the frame rate to 12 FPS. Ugh. I would've just cut the shots out altogether.

-The character models often did not deform right. For example, if a human model lowered his arm, the skin would fold like clothing. Sometimes this would lead to noticeable distortions in the characters. Maybe they didn't care too much for painting skin weights properly.

-The animation was very linear in some places. Objects and characters would basically switch between poses one at a time, a problem especially noticeable when characters are talking. You can almost see the animators pulling the sliders for their blend shapes! Here's an "O", here's an "M"...

-Weight and inertia problems. Often people and objects did not move as they should under certain stress conditions. For example, Kaena landing on the floor after a very long jump. Not enough emphasis was put into the animation to make her landing credible. Or, when a huge sap monster stomps around, the camera shakes, but it does not seem as though the monster has as much mass as the screen area he occupies suggests. This happens so often, it's hard to buy into most of the character movements throughout the film.

-The texturing was really monotonous. Most of the humans were very smooth-skinned, the wood texture for the roots was used too much (why couldn't they have something grow ON the roots? Or at least do something to give the surfaces more detail...it's almost as if they made a single NURBS surface for the floor in some shots), and sometimes, bump mapping was used very little on surfaces that were immediately noticeable to the viewer. It serves for some really dull and monochrome backgrounds.

-Design inconsistency. This is a huge problem. Some humans looked more proportionately accurate than others, for example, Kaena had a somewhat realistic human body design, and others would be drawn more distorted, like cartoons. In addition, the sap monsters have really detailed models and effects, where many human characters were smooth or cartoon-like. The animation was also inconsistent this way-- sometimes Kaena would have more expression in her face than her body, and sometimes it'd be the opposite. It's almost as if, wow, many different artists worked on this film (but, we aren't supposed to know that, right?).

-Motion blur. Please, if you aren't going to use deformations, turn up the motion blur. It seems as if the animation is STROBING. It would really help in those low frame rate shots.

But... there are some good things about the art of Kaena. The fluid effects were nicely done (although they did not often interact well with other objects), the lighting was well done, in somewhat of a chiaroscuro fashion, and some of the models are convincing; mainly the sap monsters because of their amount of detail. Bravo in these respects.

On the whole, I'd give the film a 6. It is impressive that so much was created with so little (they should get some sort of award for their resourcefulness, actually), but in the end, it doesn't come close to rivaling the big-wigs of America and Japan, and it's astonishing that people continue to boast otherwise about this film.