As a big fan of animation, I eagerly awaited to see this first Serbian animated film. Did "Edit i Ja" deliver? Well it depends...
Aleksa Gajic is a young and gifted animator who is present in Serbian manga community for a while. I liked his work before and after seeing the first trailer in 2007, it looked like a promising project. Indeed it was decent from a animators point. Some said that the solid basic drawing wasn't reproduced in a animation cycle properly, and that the whole film looks more like an flash app. It's pretty true, however, considering this is the first kind of such a project in Serbian cinematography, I think it looks pretty OK, and the visual team can undoubtedly get all the credits. It is nowhere close to a Japanese anime, but even that took decades to evolve into a level we all know and take for granted. "Edit i ja" has a lot of potential for further evolution. Story, a fiction fantasy from a futuristic Belgrade is also a bright spark of this anime. A girl bonds with an implant chip which begins to awaken and become a living entity.
However, the good impression made by the visuals and the story was ureutterly ruined by a horrible voice over recordings. In an animated film, the voice plays one of the key roles, since it gives a soul to characters involved. With a few exceptions, the voice crew ruined this promising title. I don't know whether the production team paid them low fees, or it's just the fact they are bad orators, the team made up of more or less famous actor cast sounded like a bunch of people dragged in from the street, with very little motivation and placed in front of the mike. No enthusiasm what so ever.
So, overall, "Edit i ja" remains a good attempt which has a lot of further potential. Still, it could and should have been better.
Aleksa Gajic is a young and gifted animator who is present in Serbian manga community for a while. I liked his work before and after seeing the first trailer in 2007, it looked like a promising project. Indeed it was decent from a animators point. Some said that the solid basic drawing wasn't reproduced in a animation cycle properly, and that the whole film looks more like an flash app. It's pretty true, however, considering this is the first kind of such a project in Serbian cinematography, I think it looks pretty OK, and the visual team can undoubtedly get all the credits. It is nowhere close to a Japanese anime, but even that took decades to evolve into a level we all know and take for granted. "Edit i ja" has a lot of potential for further evolution. Story, a fiction fantasy from a futuristic Belgrade is also a bright spark of this anime. A girl bonds with an implant chip which begins to awaken and become a living entity.
However, the good impression made by the visuals and the story was ureutterly ruined by a horrible voice over recordings. In an animated film, the voice plays one of the key roles, since it gives a soul to characters involved. With a few exceptions, the voice crew ruined this promising title. I don't know whether the production team paid them low fees, or it's just the fact they are bad orators, the team made up of more or less famous actor cast sounded like a bunch of people dragged in from the street, with very little motivation and placed in front of the mike. No enthusiasm what so ever.
So, overall, "Edit i ja" remains a good attempt which has a lot of further potential. Still, it could and should have been better.