Wonderful World of Animation

I went to Seoul last weekend and saw an animation exhibition at the Seoul Arts Center. It was decent. I saw some previews in 3D for How to Train Your Dragon and the new Shrek Movie, and a bunch of artwork from various animated features and shows.

Apparently it's recently been Thomas the Tank Engine's 65th birthday, so the whole thing was pretty Thomas-centric. I would have preferred something a bit more exciting to be the theme of the exhibit. Oh, well.

Here is the wall where people put a bunch of birthday cards:



Most of them were in Korean, of course, but this one in English is hilarious:


Here's a suite model that was in the entry:




I took this video at first just for shits and giggles, but then I saw this little boy being mildly amusing, so I went to him. Then I saw his dad possibly suspecting me of videotaping his kid, so I stopped.




There was an animation workshop in which you got to choose two animation media. I could have spent all day there doing something good, but it was a pretty simple setup and I couldn't operate the controls, so I didn't really come up with anything major. I didn't want to make other people wait too long. They emailed me the files later that day.