professional article review

The article describes Liaka's techniques to water, mainly focusing on Kubo and the two strings. It covers their process and their improvements from older movies.  Their goal was to create realistic water, which was no problem after they recruited an expert in making realistic water. The challenge came when they had to go beyond that to make it match the Japanese wood art style the rest of the movie was made in.
They reference older articles or concept art. The articles strengths are that it is developed. It references previous work and how they went about that and then how they went through it this time along with different steps they took and what they used. Some weaknesses would be that it doesn't actually show all of the things coming together, it just shows the planning stage and final product. the author concludes that the final product really fit what they were going for. I feel like the article explained the process and regardless of if the main point is good or not it gave me an understanding in the subject.
At first I didn't understand what they had mean from Japanese wood block art; however, after research, I found out it is a traditional art where a block of wood is glued to a print and then the design is meticulously carved out and then it is like a stamp where you paint on the block and stamp it onto paper. From there I connected what the animator meant when he said they integrated the wood texture into the water. I thought this article was interesting and useful because it showed  their whole process and the steps they take on the professional level