Week 2
This week I decided to look at Teddy and Anna on the Plastic Box. The animation for these movies has a very different look when compared to those from Todd Gallina’s site. First off, the animation is much more fluid than the quick, jerky movements of Gallina’s movies. Episode 6 provides very good examples of this. An example of this is right at the beginning of the movie, the bear jumps down and runs out and Anna turns to watch it. In other movies we watched in class, instead of a smooth turn, the character might just be flipped so it’s facing the other way. There are still places in this movie though where tweening is used to drag a character or object across the screen, such as the cars on the street below the building or the bear riding up the computer core. The effect is not as noticeable here however, as it is in for example in the movies on the Barbie site.
The colors in Teddy and Anna are for the most part monochromatic, but it serves to enhance the overall look and feel that the animation seems to be striving for. The movie is set in an alternate version of 1929, and the colors lend themselves to the look of that time. The backgrounds consist mainly of flat colors and simple shapes and I think this helps the characters to stand out more. This is especially helpful because the characters are drawn without a black outline.
Another thing about this movie that played an important role was the sound. The music consisted mainly of simple loops. The music that was chosen helped portray action or tension during the scene where the bear is hanging outside of the building. There are no sound effects, aside from a simple wind gust that plays during the above scene. The lack of sound effects to me made the movie appear more serious, as opposed to the cartoon like sound effects used in other animations we’ve watched. There were also no speaking; all dialogue was conveyed through text, much like an early movie. Something little I noticed about the dialogue was that there was different font used for each character.
The colors in Teddy and Anna are for the most part monochromatic, but it serves to enhance the overall look and feel that the animation seems to be striving for. The movie is set in an alternate version of 1929, and the colors lend themselves to the look of that time. The backgrounds consist mainly of flat colors and simple shapes and I think this helps the characters to stand out more. This is especially helpful because the characters are drawn without a black outline.
Another thing about this movie that played an important role was the sound. The music consisted mainly of simple loops. The music that was chosen helped portray action or tension during the scene where the bear is hanging outside of the building. There are no sound effects, aside from a simple wind gust that plays during the above scene. The lack of sound effects to me made the movie appear more serious, as opposed to the cartoon like sound effects used in other animations we’ve watched. There were also no speaking; all dialogue was conveyed through text, much like an early movie. Something little I noticed about the dialogue was that there was different font used for each character.
posted by Mike at
8:53 PM
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I beleive the smothness of the animation is due to actionscript effects that we have not yet examined in our class. I wish that we could skip ahead to this important tool of programing the animations, but alas, we still have much to learn in the basics. I can only imagine that it takes an incredible amount of time to complete these animations, and am quite sad that there are only six to date. This story shows a huge amount of promise, perhaps as a major motion picture. Can anyone say "first rule of robotics"?
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Ryjak, at 5:27 AM
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