School asignement 02

Norman McLaren - Dots (1940)

To start this one off. I have never seen something like this, and i have no clue were to go if i wanna see things like this,  maybe except youtube and use some crazy search word. To be honest i dint like it. Was boring, as good as no story, and i think this movie falls under the category music more then it does animation. The look of the movie is kinda sad to, but it really reflects the old generation tho. so i guess its good in a old way. But definitely not something i wanna great in the near future.

If i were to spice this up, i would use different colors, advance the 2d stuff over to 3d and maybe add some collision effects together with some more advance music then just some beat box.







Fantasmagorie (1904)

Well i kinda like this one, it reminded me of my first introduction to animation, were i made frame by frame 2d stick-figures animation in Adobe Flash. to compare this one to Norman McLaren - Dots (1940) that comes 36 years later i really really enjoy this one much better. It doesn't have colors but at least some sort of a story or a red line. Even tho the artist must have bin sky high when making this i enjoyed watching it. But even tho i like it its not something i would be interested in or would spend my time looking for just to see similar animation clips.
But all credits to the creators that made this 100 years ago. Well done!






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Cafe Serre (2009)

Here we got something i really enjoy, a color full look, a funny strry and characters you just gotta love.
It this kinda cartoonish style I'm looking for in my own animations in the future. A pixarish cartoonish look. Were you have descent realism, but still the cartoon feel to everything.
Not much to criticize on this animation. It got good animation, fun story line, and good look. The look might not be that original since most of the shorts produced in this time period has this look. but well well.
To find more shorts like this i would look at any 3d related pages, most of them contains movies like this or atleast links to sites that contains it. Not hard to find.


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Pocoyo (2007)

Great looking characters, fun story and some nice extreme poses, and now its the child in me talking. This is a child animation, something you notice very fast on the simple look. But you need something like that if you want the smaller people in the community to keep up with the story. Its some fast move meant at times but much of that is balanced with breathing breaks and extreme poses. The stories are often a bit thin, but not something to complain on. Color full, fun, easy to watch and entertaining.
If i want more of this i would look for childish animation and animations for child on kids tv. Its a nice in between, between tom a jerry and shrek.




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Ryan (2004)

This is for sure a interesting movie, for people who like this sort of grey, dark, smokey style. Its a animation made with allot of feelings and a story. My personal opinion, is that the animation is way to long, i fell of the story after 5 minutes and never manage to get back in. i saw the movie like 3 times trying to figure what this was about. Never got it, might just be me, thats slow, but again that means this animation ain't that user friendly. About the graphics, its very good looking and creatively made.
A good animation with a bit hard to chew story.






Cyber Evolution (2007)

I don't get it, i just don't get it.its for sure fantasy as the title says but its just to much noise, grain and dark colors, mixed with shaking and allot of things happening at the same time, if you new to 3d and just like to watch a short animation you will be flipped of your chair and have no clue whats going on. The movie its self looks really homemade, its interesting its own way, really surrealistic. But not something i would recommend for everyone.

I just don't know what to say to this animation. I don't think its easy to make something like this, but why put so much in it when its so hard to see whats made with all the noise is my question. I ain't gonna look up more of these videos. The best part is the beginning and the end.





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Toyota / APT Prod. (2006)

A exceptional exemplar of professional commercial work. The overall work got really good quality to it, it only show was necessary to tell the story. And represent what it wants to show in a short and good manner. Nothing to complain on. This is something you will find on the TV, since its something thats suppose to reach people and sell.