The Power of Animation in Redline
The animated film Redline can be widely considered a failure. It was a flop and didn’t make back most of the it’s budget. It grossed $8.2 Million with a budget of $30 Million. Despite being a financial embarrassment, I would say that the film was in more ways than not a huge success.
The ground breaking fluid animation conveys speed and velocity in a way no other medium can express. The hand drawn frames stretch the vehicles in impossible ways to emphasis this motion.
Redline is about the Redline race, an intergalactic race that takes place every 5 years, where the best racers in the universe meet and race to the death. Sweet JP barely qualified for the race this year, and is preparing with his crew. The biggest conflict of the film is that the race takes place on the military planet of Roboworld without their consent. Roboworld becomes an active war zone and promises to destroy anyone associated with the race.
Even the simple flipping of switches had me on the edge of my seat. With a quick cut to what expert effect the drivers action had on the race as a whole. All the drivers are oozing with personality. Every shot was an explosion of information, and I couldn’t look away. The very idea of racing sounds boring to me, but this has pumped new blood into a dead sub-genre for me. Everyone needs to watch Redline.
This has become my favorite racing film. The shots are beautiful handcrafted experiences. I love this film.
