The Danish Poet

The Danish Poet is a good animation. This about a young poet who has writers block. He decides to take a trip, psychologist suggests he take, on this trip he wants to meet a famous writer so he can get some ideas so he can start to write again. During this trip he meets a girl who is going to wed this other man but he still likes her. He asks her but she says no. In the end her husband dies and she waits for the poet and will keep growing her hair. The famous writer who the poet was going to see earlier on had died. At the funeral both the poet and the young woman meet up. The poet hears about the death and sees that this is a sign. They wed and during their marriage the woman decides to cut off her hair since by then it had grown a ton.

This animation is a good one. The reason is that there are simple designs that bring out the detail. One example of this is in the house roof at the beginning. The shingles give the illusion that the shingles do exist which I like. I also think that at the point 2 minutes and 22 seconds when the animation goes in to talk about the story and it goes to black and white is a good transition. It gives the viewer a chance to understand that the animation is now in a different time frame and talking about something else and not the main character. Then at the end of the story telling the pull out and going back to color is good. This is all good.

The story is and background are not the only things that are good. The characters are good too. the psychologist is good. He had a main theme of smoking his cigar and his wild hair. This give the audience a chance give this character a main feature. Another is the boat. It always has the same people on it. From the poet, to the hikers, to the drunk people and the mailman. These people always have the same movements going onto the boat then leaving the boat. Another is the mean dog. The dog is aggressive and and always bark to the poet. I like how his mouth is a light shade which shows the inner part of the mouth. Finally the character who has a main theme is the farmer across the valley. This character always has a hat pulled over his face. This gives the character a sense of mystery to the audience. The audience never sees the face which I like.

I like the color of this animation. It has a theme of begin bright and not really dark. Even during the small storm the colors are not really dark. This was a good animation and I liked it.