Review 3.1: Animation Shorts Folio

12:04 PM


The video is a compilation of short animation that was created by joehumps during his college days. This includes a variety of mediums including stop motion, clay, flipbook, cut-out and sand.

1. Title: Desktop Crime
Type of animation: Stop Motion

This is a short story about a pencil and eraser who had a conflict. The pencil "killed"the eraser and was caught by the police "stapler". He ends up being prosecuted by the sharpener. It is a very simple story that incorporates creativity and imagination. The animator used everyday stuff to convey the story.

2. Title: Penelope's Snooze
Type of animation: Cut-out

This part used a portrait of a model and hand-shaped cut-outs. It was surreal and psychedelic which is portrayed by the use of music and color. It used strobe lights to heighten the suspense. There were hands crawling all over the face which gives a macabre feel. The end was comical where the portrait opens its eyes when the hand pinches her nose.

3. Type of animation: Sand Animation

The author says that this is a "bunch of stuff that morphs and eats each other and stuff --- and a sea lion." Yeah, a sea lion. The description was just funny and the animation was experimental. It was a good try though.

4. Title: Death (by a balloon?)
Type of animation: Flip Book

This type of animation is very hard to execute and it requires much patience, skill and timing. The story was about a kid who had a balloon and flew with it. He popped the balloon and fell on the ground, cracking his head.

5. Title: You asked for it
Type of animation: Clay animation

This is a comical scene about a clay animator and a clay character. The cute character is asking for food and the animation gives him a burger. But the character was asking for more and it angered the animator. He ends up being squashed. It was funny and the sound was quite impressive.

Review 2.5: The Turnip Boy

10:42 PM


Genre: Storybook / Fiction
Type of Animation: 2D Animation
Creator: David Pietila


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"The Turnip Boy" is a story that has a moral lesson. It is about a boy who radioactively mutated into a turnip and lived in the plantation of a couple who had no child. He wished to parents so he courageously entered the house and introduced himself. The couple welcomed him warmly and offered him dinner. The dinner was also turnip and he struggled. He thought that if he refuses to eat, he will not be accepted by the couple. He ate the turnip for the first time and realized that it was not that bad. He realized that a little sacrifice won't harm him. There are always first time for anything.

The film was not complicated and the story is very simple. It did not really impressed me because of its quality. The effects were poorly executed and it looks very amateur and the music does not give the mood of the film. It was very lengthy and it was boring.

Review 2.4: Bunny

2:03 PM


Genre: Storybook / Fiction / Comedy
Type of Animation: 3D Animation
Creator:
Chris Wedge

Rating:

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"Bunny" is an abstract short film about an old rabbit who is irritated by a moth while baking. He tries to kill it and it fell in his bowl. With his anger, he mixed the moth and mashed it in the bowl and put it in the oven. He falls to sleep and a little while, the oven glows with a blue light and suddenly it was shaking. He woke up and tried to check what's going on. He opens the oven and sees the moth. He crawled inside the oven and he realized he's already floating in air, flying with moths.

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