I am very happy for the author. Hats off to the production team for all their hard work.
The artwork was stunning, if a bit out of focus. It was reminiscent of gloppy painting styles such as impressionism or expressionism.
Unfortunately, the issues for me started from second one. The production teams live feed of the studio was choppy. Their Internet signal must have been low. Which made the claymation/stop motion of the show more difficult to watch.
The issues cascaded from there. The soundtrack and dialogue were too loud separately. Combined it was all noise, especially with background noise. I say background noise but the sound lacked depth. It was another layer of paint on an already heavy painting. And the dialogue recordings were surface level instead of embedded to the character in proportion to spacing or placement.
I did expect new scenes and scenes edited or reordered from the book. However, it was still disheartening to see the difference between the book and short film to the TV show. The igiby family going about their chores created such a home-ly tone. I get the adventurous boy antics of the TV show's opening scene but still...
Overall, I can't rate this as high as I would like. The books are excellent! In my opinion, the most creative Christian Fantasy since Chronicles of Narnia.
My kids liked the show even though they too said the sound was odd, scenes were missing or out of order, and the stop-motion made them blink a lot.
Again, congratulations to the author and production. Today was a big day. I hope my review doesn't dampen your spirits. As long as you are happy with the end product is all that matters.
The artwork was stunning, if a bit out of focus. It was reminiscent of gloppy painting styles such as impressionism or expressionism.
Unfortunately, the issues for me started from second one. The production teams live feed of the studio was choppy. Their Internet signal must have been low. Which made the claymation/stop motion of the show more difficult to watch.
The issues cascaded from there. The soundtrack and dialogue were too loud separately. Combined it was all noise, especially with background noise. I say background noise but the sound lacked depth. It was another layer of paint on an already heavy painting. And the dialogue recordings were surface level instead of embedded to the character in proportion to spacing or placement.
I did expect new scenes and scenes edited or reordered from the book. However, it was still disheartening to see the difference between the book and short film to the TV show. The igiby family going about their chores created such a home-ly tone. I get the adventurous boy antics of the TV show's opening scene but still...
Overall, I can't rate this as high as I would like. The books are excellent! In my opinion, the most creative Christian Fantasy since Chronicles of Narnia.
My kids liked the show even though they too said the sound was odd, scenes were missing or out of order, and the stop-motion made them blink a lot.
Again, congratulations to the author and production. Today was a big day. I hope my review doesn't dampen your spirits. As long as you are happy with the end product is all that matters.