Wonderful Days Are Coming!

[thistlechaser]

There's little so nice as mixing beautiful music together with jaw-dropping animation. Wonderful Days, an upcoming movie, lives up to the first word of its title.

Official website.

On the official website, you can download a three minute preview of the movie. I've watched it more than twenty times between last night and this morning. (And I'm downloading the whole movie now, woo woo!) I'd highly recommend you get one of the higher resolution ones -- this thing has so many details, you'll need the larger image to enjoy them all.

I seriously debated including screenshots with this post or not. The problem is, the screenshots do the trailer no justice at all. The textures in it are so real, and the backgrounds so realistic! It looks like anime characters slapped onto real life settings.

I saved the files at the highest quality I could, but they still lost tons of texture and details:

* Stormy weather, distant city.
* This one lost the most of all of them. The golden shells were so shiny and pretty in the trailer! They look dead and flat here. Bah.
* Lots of details were lost in this one, but you can get an idea of how much goes on in each shot.

So download it and enjoy it! You'll be happy you did!

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Boy, am I tired of being sick! This is my third day of having serious pain on one side of my throat when I try to swallow. Hurts to turn my head in that direction as well. And yawning? For some reason, opening my mouth wide produces so much throat-pain it makes me want to scream. Luckily I have a doctor's appointment on Monday, so if it's still hurting then, I'll ask her to look at it as well. Assuming I live until Monday. :p

Comments

[caillen.livejournal.com]

wow...that seriously looks like it has potential. all those details *downloads trailer*

stalking j00. :D get well soon.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Eek! Eek! Stalker! Save me!

(Heehee. Hi!)

[fealu-bryne.livejournal.com]

*sulks at her sucky connection*

Things take forever to download! Maybe I'll bop onto our old computer and take a peek...

Oh, and since this reminded me of it... ever heard tell of something called "Voices of a Distant Star"? Seems a similar sort of thing, and the trailer (when I saw it awhile back) seemed rather haunting. It's one of those romancy things, but it looked pretty neat. Dunno if you wanna check it out or not.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I have heard of "Voices of a Distant Star", but I can't recall where... If I spot it, I'll download it and check it out! Thanks!

[morinotokei.livejournal.com]

Tsk tsk, I recced it to you a while back. Voices of a Distant Star = Hoshi no Koe, which you must check out immediately. It's a movie under 30 minutes, and it's absolutely amazing how much substance there is in that short little movie. Here, I'll even provide linkage (http://the-easy-tiger.net/). ^o^

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I'm so bad! I forget recs sometime! Downloading now, thanks for the easy link!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I needed something different to watch tonight, so I checked out Voices of a Distant Star. Wow! That animation was so so so beautiful! Sweet, sad story, too! It doesn't happen to be part of a larger series, does it? (It felt like a complete story, but I can always hope there's more!)

Thanks for the recommendation! I need to make some screenshots, that was one beautiful movie!

[morinotokei.livejournal.com]

Nope, it was just a one-shot movie. I actually liked it as it was, so I'm not sure I'd want a sequel. What's even more impressive though is that it was created by one person. I'd like to get a hold of his other works, one of them in particular--Kumo no Mukou--but it's hard to dig up info on it. Glad you like it though, and yes, such a beautiful movie, in many ways. =)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Wow, one person? That's just amazing.

If I have any luck finding anything else by him, I'll let you know!

[morinotokei.livejournal.com]

Aieeee. I hope you feel better soon. *hugs*

I glanced through the site and looked at the image gallery. The pictures are absolutely gorgeous. *_* Can't watch the trailer now, but I will later. Thanks for the info and link!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And yey, hope you enjoy it!

[bouteillebleu.livejournal.com]

We showed Wonderful Days at our university anime society last term, I think. I agree with you about the backgrounds - they are wonderfully done, and utterly gorgeous. I wasn't so fond of the way the characters were drawn, but I got used to it after a while.

Actually, the weirdest thing about the film was watching it and not understanding a word of it, rather than watching it and being able to understand a few words and verb endings. I haven't had much experience with Korean. It sounds very different to Japanese, as I remember...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I noticed the difference in how the characters were drawn, too. I thought maybe they were trying to make them look Korean more than Japanese?

Luckily the version I'm getting has subtitles, since I know zero Korean!