The first animation video I found is by Jeff Liu who created a simple animation demo reel. The animation is in black and white and is done using very sketched out rough lines. The first scene shows a young man who picks up a cartoonish glove and puts it on. Before he puts the glove on, he examines the glove with a look of curiosity on his face which gives the viewer an anticipation that the young man is going to do something with the glove. The first scene is using a mid shot at a eye level angle. After the young man puts on the cartoonish glove he is then sucked into another world. During the sequence of the young man being sucked into the glove his body starts to bend and fold which is using an exaggerating technique.
The young man is then brought into another world and the camera angle is a lower level or worm shot. The young man gets up off the ground and his hair waves up and down following his actions. Then the camera is shot pointing behind the young man and the camera pans to the right showing all these cartoon characters that the young man is looking at. All the cartoon characters are dancing and some of them are squash and stretching and others have exaggerated movements.
The young man then looks up at the sky and the camera angle shows the sun from his point of view and the sun has a face and smiles at him. The young man staggers backwards and his hair follows his staggering. There is a lot of mid shots throughout the rest of the video. A mouse tries to give the young man a hug but the man pushes the mouse off and the mouse gets upset and chases after the young man. At this point a lot of the animation is exaggerated and the lines seem bolder. There is a point of perception during this seen as the young man is running his foot is closer to the camera shot and looks larger. The sequence ends when the young man punches the mouse and gets kicked out of the cartoon world.
The first scene shows a pear being grabbed. The tree limb kinda stretches and bounces a little when the pear is pulled. Then there is a cut in of a gameboy being played. Then a mid shot that pans out showing a boy and a hairy creature hanging out. A weird rabbit creature appears and the camera shot changes to a landscape shot. The weird rabbit creature has a helicopter type hat that pushes air against everything and the other characters slightly being pushed. There is another cut in of the gameboy being showed. Then there is silence and anticipation of something going to happen. The rabbit stares down the boy and the hairy creature. The rabbit yanks the gameboy out of the boys hands and there is a follow through of motions as the boy jerks forward with the motion and the creature on top of his head bounces.
The rabbit breaks the gameboy and there is another silence that throws anticipation. All characters stare for a second and then the hairy creature has a evil look on his face that throws another anticipation on when he is going to do something. The hairy creature spits out the pear at the rabbit. The rabbit then falls. The helicopter hat is now laying on the ground and the boy and the hairy creature get an idea to take it and let the boy wear it. This is staging the idea that the boy will wear the hat and use it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg8mZKbUzwE&feature=fvwThis one is called the Happiest Monster and it shows a little girl running after a ball and then out of no where a huge monster appears from the sky and the camera shot cuts to the girl and shows her scared with her arms up. The monster looks at the girl and then roars and his mouth is exaggerated and looks stretched out. The camera shot turns into a side angle and then shows the monster looking at the scared girl. The monster licks the girl and the anticipation of the girl mood changes. The camera shot changes and the angle changes as the girl is shown at the eye level and at a mid shot in front of the girl as the monster is in the back. A lot of camera shots change as the girl becomes happy. The monster throws the girl in the air.
And the monster prepares to fly or jump which shows the squash and stretch animation. The girl rides the back of the monster through a few landscape camera shots. Then a top view of the angle shows the girl again riding the monster. Then a bird’s eye view of the planet and then the monster flying up towards the camera and around it. The monster brings the girl to a nest of baby monsters and the girl looks happy. There is an anticipation of whats going to happen. Its unclear but then the girl falls into the nest of baby monsters and they eat her alive. Worm view shows the bigger monster looking on.
No comments:
Post a Comment