Wow, I can't believe how amazing the animations shown and the talks were. It was so interesting to see professionals and students work, seeing their own style of narrative and use of animation to portray this just made me so inspired and excited to create my own.
I started the BAFest day with watching the Professionals 1 showcase, and some were surprisingly dark in narrative and atmosphere:
- Boles - an aesthetically pleasing animation that incorporates the use of puppets. The plot had a good twist and worked well with the use of puppetry, it also made me think of how many ways the ending could have be interpreted as. In my opinion, Teresa ends up being a figment of his imagination and becomes one of the best pieces of text that he has written.
Boles - The River's Lazy Flow - A weird short, but I liked the use of texture in the background, and it was amusing when the girls 'magic power' was being able to kill fish. Uses a 2-D animation approach, this could have been made using pose to pose and the program Flash.
The rivers lazy flow - In the Air is Christopher Grey - A quite funny short which follows a
boy, Christopher, wanting to proclaim his love to Stacy, he decides to
impress her by making a big jump on his bike. Everything goes horribly
wrong, the snake, in which he wanted to jump over and he ended up
landing on, killed its owner with his young love going back with her ex.
(And to quote Christopher's friend "At least you made a jump over a 5ft
snake..." ). Uses a 2-D approach which could have been created through
the use of the program Flash.
In the air is Christopher Grey - Canis - A haunting and dismal outlook on a world which seems abandoned, with a man, his son and a dog, trying to survive the constant attack of stray dogs. I felt that the baby at the end of the short signified hope for the boy and that he has been given a purpose, to protect his son. Uses stop motion puppetry set in a monotone approach.
Canis - Butterflies - A beautiful, yet creepy stylised stop motion, which follows a young artist selling her drawings on the streets to passersby. A business man recognises her talent and gives her a job at his business of handmade cards. But soon, after drawing the same repetitive thing, she begins to lose her self, her dream and inspirations of the artist she wants to be. I love how her dreams are symbolised through the use of her butterfly drawings, which are in turn depicted in a creepy manner through the use of the bat like wings, the shape of the body and the yellow and red eyes of the butterflies.
Butterflies - Palmipedarium - beautifully simple illustrated 2-d/3-d animation which follows a young boy who hunts ducks with his father. One day he finds a peculiar duck which cannot fly, the boy tries to help him by adding feathers and painting his beak orange and gives the duck the courage to move forward, and the duck runs into the distance. I believe this short can be interpreted to be just a figment of his imagination but i feel it resembles the boys feelings, his wings have been clipped and he just wants to leave the same daily routine, he wants the freedom of change.
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