Blast Off!

Blast Off!

This film which I just viewed is entitled "Blast Off!", and it as a short summary of what the movie is all about. BlastOff! tells the story of how the worlds of reality and fantasy easily blend together in the fertile imagination of a young child, especially when supplied with creative toys and environments. The story begins at dawn with a child's wishful drawing of a space ship. During the day his father builds him a custom designed space shuttle bed and fills his room with toys. As the sun sets, one of the child's toys, a little green alien, comes to life and is excited pretending to pilot the space ship. As his imagination soon takes over completely, the room fades away and the shuttle bed blasts the little alien out into space for a wild rocket ship ride through the rings of Saturn. The alien finally comes crashing back to reality as the child returns home to find his room is a complete mess.

The animation was created by Michael Scaramozzino and his custom design of the space shuttle bed used in the film. This animation has won multiple awards and screened as an official selection in multiple film festivals. This animation is so good that it made me realize how incredible and powerful 3D films are. The models of every element in the movie was well designed and very well rendered to make it look so realistic. And to top if off the story was indeed a simple yet very interesting creation. With these, I have given it 5 out of 5 stars and a rare two- thumbs up to Michael for a job very well done.