Student 1
- The kiosk - a charming and funny short about a woman who wants to
leave the same small town in which she sells items to the same people
everyday in her kiosk. One day she leaves after some one steals some of her products and now she sells ice cream at the
sea. The animation is portrayed in a 2-D painted style that works well with the theme of the short. The animation becomes tactile through the use of paint layered over the text on the Kiosk.
The Kiosk
- The Bungled Child (La Ravaudeuse) - A despairing animation which held
such dark properties and ended in a daunting way. I did however like the design of the twins and the style of the animation through how tactile
the puppets were. Use of puppetry and stop motion.
The Bungled Child - The Carousel Family - A very weird and abrupt animation. To be
honest all I saw was a pretty animation as there was so much going on everywhere
to the point it was hard to focus on the plot, and how everyone had
extremely smiley faces, and were part horse...
Uses CG animation and could have used programs such as Maya.
The Carousel Family - Ab Ovo - An interesting portrayal of pregnancy, in which the clay
character would rotate and the audience would be able to see into her
womb as we see her back, seeing the baby grow. The ending confused me
slightly as my first initial thought was that she dropped her baby as
soon as she held it as it seemed to disappear before the animation
ended. Uses stop motion.
Ab Ovo - The Dewberry Empire - I loved the style of animation,
something similar to what I would want to be able to produce, as it absorbs a style of Studio Ghibli, through the attention to detail but the animator makes it into their own. I would love to see more of his work.
The Dewbury Empire - Plug & Play - A weird and strangely amusing animation which uses pose to pose process. This animation was funny through the dialogue and we began to see that the short was a portrayal of love.
Plug & Play - First Light - another well made animation, which held a lovely style, an amazing plot and concept. I felt that the piece portrayed the thoughts of freedom from her enclosed and suffocating day to day routine.
First Light - But Milk is Important - this stop motion was breathtaking
through the gorgeous designs of the models which inspired me. The plot
was amazing with the use of a 'dust bunny' monster which I felt portrayed the characters fear of talking to other people.
But Milk is Important - When One Stops - A very powerful short which I didn't understand at
first until I thought more about it. It portrayed the grief that a
person goes through when someone suffers a loss. The character doesn't
want to accept reality, so they stay in one place, clinging onto dark
thoughts and becoming engulfed by the emotional stress of loss. As the
character stays in the same place as the world continues to turn and
move on, he grabs a tree and refused to let it move, and a man grabs
his arm, and a look is exchanged, he needed to move on. The use of only animating the lineart in a monotone approach made the atmosphere that much more tense.
When One Stops
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