Tuesday, January 27, 2009

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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Stop Animation



After learning more about stop animation in class, I thought it would be fun to see what I could find on youtube about it. Some of the things I looked at were pretty awkward, but I saw this and I thought it was pretty cute! I like how, at the beginning, the creators give us the name of the studio that produced it, as well as the name of the short, and then move right into the actual short. I like how there’s no start up black screen with those names.The first time I watched this, the main reason I decided to watch the whole thing was because of how well the music fit what was going on. It’s very cute, light, and innocent. I also like the use of lighting in this short. It doesn’t seem quite overexposed, but with both the objects in the foreground and the entirety of the background being white, it almost seems to give off that overexposed feeling; like when the sun reflects off of snow.

I thought it was pretty cute how the way they framed the introduction of their character. The camera was focusing on the keyboard, and then all of a sudden, their character jumps down from out of his screen. I wish the transition from regular to stop animation had been smoother; there’s a slight jerk in the screen and the color seems to dull slightly.

I really enjoyed the zoom out as the character sat on the mouse. It was easy to tell from the number of blinks and previous facial expressions that the character was in a new place and was contemplating what he was going to do. Later, when the male character sees a female character on another screen, I absolutely loved the shot of the male character leaving the frame, and the camera focusing only on the monitor with the female character. It leaves you pondering what’s going to happen next, until the male character returns from off screen with a box of some sort, clearly intended to help him reach the female character.I also enjoyed the number of shots they used to show the male character attempting to climb up the box to the monitor. We start out seeing from his torso up, and we can tell by his facial expressions that he’s struggling. The camera then moves to his feet, and we watch as he tries to get his bearings on this new surface, and then there’s a quick cut back to his face as we watch him watching where he puts his feet.

The moment where the screen saver turns on and scares him is pretty cute. His reaction time was a little slow, so it took me a minute to realize that he was supposed to be covering his head in fear. I thought framing only his feet as he pushes a button on the keyboard was a nice effect.

I was sad with how abruptly the story ended, but I know that’s just because it was probably a class project of some sort. Overall, I thought it was really well done and had an incredibly cute story.
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