Bathtime In Clerkenwell - Aleksey Budovskiy

Bathtime In Clerkenwell

This animation was an interesting one in my mind. I thought the music went well with the animation. If there is a beat then the entire image bounces with the beat. I think that this is interesting because it engages the music with the animation.

I thought the details with the water coming out of the shower were great. The reason is that it sprayed everywhere when the person go into the bath. Also, I liked the birds who were drumming. They were militaristic which was interesting, along with that on how they were hatched also was militaristic.

I also thought that the usage of the clocks were nice. Going from a bird in the clock to the human since this shows that the birds actually successful in taking over the human world. The taking over can also been seen with the flags that are waving in the air. They are clock faces in which represents the birds. It is interesting that they use a famous clock, Big Ben, to get their point out that the birds wont take anymore from humans.

At the end I think it is interesting when the bird falls off the clock into the water and creates a splash. And an aerial view of London is shown to distinguish where it has taken place. Then at the end the entire animation was in the television and the birds actually rule the world in which case the human is in the clock.



Commercial for Converse

This animation is simple but shows a lot through the movement of the person in the animation. The animation gets its point across with the help of simple shapes. These simple shapes can not be manipulated by any ordinary shoe but when converse are added to the mix then that shoe can do anything. I like that he used color only for the shoes. This helps them to stand out and show the audience the product that is trying to be sold. Rather then hiding it and making the audience guess what the commercial is about. I think the commercial was a good, well made one.

The Fan and the Flower

This animation was a good one. I thought that the usage of shadows helped a great deal. The reason is that it shows the passage of time on a day by day setting. Also, by a time with the lady who owned the house getting older and older. The lady was shown to get older by going from a cane to a wheel chair in the shadows. Another aspect of time passing was with the fan when a lot of dust accumulated on it. This shows that it had not been tended to. Shadows can be very helpful if one does not want to create a person and deal with colors. Also this animation had something really interesting which was camera movements.

These movements were used to show how far away the fan was to the flower. These gave the animation depth to the location which was an empty room. The movement that the fan did was very interesting because not only did it do the regular fan movements but it would mimic other characters outside the window. An instance of this is when the bird came to the window. The fan tried to do the same thing that the bird did. This gave the fan more of a realistic feel because it wanted to have characteristics that it did not have. This was also shown when the flower came into the picture. The fan tried to win the heart of the flower by using its lights. This gave the appearance that the light was being manipulated when the fan rotated. This in turn cased shadows onto the flower. The shadows throughout this animation were good because it gave the idea that something more was happening without actually showing it.

As for the flower I thought it was interesting that it was the only thing to have color in it. Even when it reflected in the fan it was the fan who had the color it was the flower. I think that is interesting that there was not other color not even it the house. I can see that he wanted to keep things basic and then once the flower decided to accept the fan created the other aspect of the flower with colors coming out of it.

Some movements that I thought were nice is when the fan was trying to intrigue the flower with the various speeds it can go. When this happened the flower first blew in the wind and then once the fan got really fast the flower had to hold onto the table. So it would not fall off. I thought this was well done because it gave the flower some more life. The other movement was when the flower tried to reach the fan. This movement was with the flower and the table. I thought this was interesting because the flower basically wobbled the table over.

This animation was a good one and showed a lot with the simplest movements and the simplest color pallet.

The Moon and The Son by John Canemaker.

I thought that this animation was very well done. Very complex with different elements such as video, and pictures which were integrated into the animation. This part of the animation I thought was the best part. Because the animation would start with a picture then transfer to the animation and then start to move. I felt that these parts gave the animation more feeling that he was bring is real life images to life. Another transition that I like is when he takes animations that are already formed such as the moon and he turns them into another character. Following the moon the father turned into a snapping turtle. This is great to see that even though these are two different things that one can turn into the other. Another transformation is when the father goes from a cockroach to a bald eagle. This transformation is from something known not to be good to something that is respected in America. The final integration is when he used himself when he was forming the actual animation toward the end. I thought that this was important and interesting to see how far he has come as a person to be doing something that he likes even without the help from his father.

That was just how the integration of different elements were used in the animation that were nice and made the entire story able to follow. There are other parts of this animation that were nice to see that used symbolist elements. The cuff that were put onto the father became vicious animals that were biting the wrists of the father. I thought that when the family visited the father in prison and they could see him through a police officer who was there to visualize a pane of glass but with authority. Also to show that mob bosses that they were better then other people and had power by making them bigger then everyone else.

Overall I think that this was a really good animation. Told the story very well and had good details in the animation. It brought in outside sources; video, pictures to enhance the story. I enjoyed it.