![]() There is also a load of YouTube videos from the founder demonstrating new features, which you will find links to in the Facebook group. For now you will need to learn from the community - there is a huge library of hints and tips on Notion, collated and created by the group admins. They are in the process of preparing full training materials which can't be easy when the product is being developed so quickly. Seriously, just join in and get ready to be blown away. The only thing I dislike is how much of a sycophant I've become. Speed of development is remarkable, the founder seems to be rolling out new features constantly. like any of the premade templates? No worries, simply create your own framework from scratch! Or choose one of the many amazing examples created and shared by the community from inside the app. Just sit back and let them and their latest undertaking work their magic on you. The filmmakers have learned a lot from the old masters and have served notice that they are at the top of their game. It's the attention to detail, the craftsmanship, and artistic appreciation that sets films like Kubo and the Two Strings apart from other animated feature films. Any shortcomings in the script are quickly forgiven when the evil sisters float into the scene or when Kubo (Art Parkinson) captivates the town folk with his storytelling. Eyes glisten, teeth are almost translucent, hair blows in the wind, characters have shadows. They have made an animated world that pulls you in with its realism. These filmmakers have done what other strive to do with budgets two, four, even six times larger. For the uninitiated, be prepared to see a film that hearkens back to the old style of painstaking, stop-motion animation with a splash of 21st century wizardry. Anyone who is familiar with Laika studios work (Coraline, The Boxtrolls) will not be disappointed in how Kubo and the Two Strings looks. The story is not the star, the presentation of the story is what shines. Although the film is geared toward a younger audience, there are deep themes of rebirth and reincarnation that are a major part of the movie and seem heavy handed, as was hinted at earlier. A couple characters aren't really fleshed out (those of Brenda Vaccaro and Ralph Fiennes for example). The characters have American English accents and are not Asian. What is truly exceptional about Kubo and the Two Strings is not the story. Aiding him on his quest are a miniature monkey carving come to life, an origami samurai, and a beetle/man warrior (Matthew McConaughey). Failing to do this one fateful night forces Kubo on a journey to recover mythical armor and weapons that will beat back the forces of darkness and restore love and harmony to his life and the lives of others. This is also the time when Kubo must be home, not only to be there when she snaps out of it to regale him with stories of his long lost warrior father, but so he can be safe from the evil that bewitched his mother and left him with only one eye. ![]() For her part, mom (voiced by Charlize Theron) sits at the mouth of their mountaintop cave in a comatose state every day until dusk. Set in what could be medieval Japan, a little boy named Kubo scratches out a meager existence on the village streets earning just enough for him and his mother to survive. It is simply an amazing work of animated achievement in cinema. But no matter how you look at it, it is something to be looked at more than once. If this film was told from another perspective, Kubo and the Two Strings might be considered a bit preachy. ![]()
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