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.