One thing I love about this movie, is it was all done from the insect’s perspective, causing a dry river bed to look like a desert, a Bird like a bloodthirsty monster, boxes to appear like Skyscrapers and so on.
The fact that managed to animate the Bird so realistically in 1998 is insane, this was when 3d animation was in it’s early days and as an animator myself I can say that animating feathers are extremely difficult
Now I can't help but wonder. If that's the way the bugs see a songbird, how might they see something like a bird of prey? As in a falcon or hawk that would probably hunt a smaller bird like this while either not noticing the bugs, or if it does, it just doesn't consider them worth hunting.
@@schoolsout15 Honestly, to them it'd probably be more proof that the outside world is a completely unsurmountable danger, if there's things even their deadliest predators flee in terror from/get eaten by.
That’s like saying the rain was also a villain. I think both are just nature being nature. The bugs are the actual characters, all else is just nature…
2:25 When I was a kid, I used to laugh at this scene so much. He was so confident he was gonna get out on time that he was mocking the bird. Then he got stuck and it was such an Epic fail. I don't know why but as a kid that epic fail just made me laugh so bad.
I love how purely chaotic everything was. Dot being stuck on a dandelion. Francis getting his leg broken and hit on the head with a rock. Princess Atta, the Queen, and the other ants being helpless just watching everthing unfold. Heimlic getting stuck and screaming his lungs out. Francis accidentally cutting the net with his wings. Flick hanging onto his antenae for dear life. As successful as the rescue mission was, it was utter chaos.
1:56-2:05 Yoohoo, Mr. Early Bird, How about a nice tasty bug on a stick? I'm going to snap. I'm going to snap! 2:32-2:33 Schnell! Schnell! Schnell! 3:38-3:42 That, my friends, is the sound of applause! 2:44-2:47 Suck it in, man!
0:39-0:40 aah, run 0:45 bird appears 0:48-0:49 tweet tweet, tweet tweet 1:01-1:02 a bird 1:05-1:06 look, Dot 1:14-1:15 Dot, my baby 1:18-1:19-1:20-1:21 I gotcha, I gotcha, I gotcha I gotcha 1:34-1:35-1:36-1:37-1:38 Flick, Dot, good heavens they’re in trouble 2:09 let’s go 2:14-2:15-2:16 there they are, Flick help 2:18-2:19-2:20-2:21-2:22 Rosie lowers Flick, Tuck and Roll, Flick, it’s going to be okay Dot 3:06-3:07-3:08-3:09 the bird, the bird, look out for the bird 3:13-3:14 Flick 3:16-3:17-3:18 up up up up up up up up
0:29 "He's cutting off the circulation to my foot." There's something so funny about a relatively sophisticated sentence like this in a children's movie. Imagine some three year old kids playing and grabbing each other and one child says "Ow, stop cutting off the circulation to my foot" You'd think that child had excellent articulation from learning this in Bug's Life.
The bird is trying to protect her babies by attacking the bugs in this scene of A Bug's Life. This isn't funny at all until she gets her feet pricked by the thorns of the tree and flies away at the same time.
