Thursday, September 18, 2014

Reflection of 3 short animations

This is animation is more like a narrative story of dots which I think is the most interesting part. It also reminds me of Minimalism—a dot dances in the middle of the scene, and transits to another shapes or splits into several part. Viewers could concentrate with the movement of dots with completely no distractions. In addition, the movement and the audio track are very cohesive. I am not sure if Norman is the first person who combine the electronic sound track with animation but it matches images perfectly.

To be honest, I did not quite get the purpose of this short animation. Despite the fact that every footages flash, I still caught some continuity footages, such as arch and piano turned into lines and dropped on the bottom. All the elements are incongruity and not linear. The audio of rings, woman’s voice still on, but there is no images on the screen.


It is a funny short clay motion-stop animation. Nick uses a new perspective to describe the relationship of human and animals. Animals are interviews by us and tell their qualities of their new home. Literally, someone who is accept interview are all politics, famous stars and it is also a serious and solemn moment. But when it changes to animal, it becomes more funny and grounded. They act like real human. The lion, his gestures and complains what a small zoo it is. Kuala wears glasses and satisfied with living in the zoo, etc. For that moment, I feel like I stand their position which is very intriguing.

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