Genre: Musical / Drama
Type of Animation: 3D
Creator: unspecified - Aniboom

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"The Piano" is shows an old man playing a dramatic piece while reminiscing and telling his story to his grandson. The song used is Comtine D'un Autre Ete: L'apres Midi. While playing the piano, he remembers his wife sitting beside him, enjoying the melody, and one with the rhythm. She faded away after a sweet last kiss. Afterwards, he remembers his life as a nurse soldier and seeing death before his eyes. And last, his childhood when he recieved a gift. He opened it and saw a horse stick. He played with it and before the song ended, he became a little boy who was his grandson. The boy sits beside him and ends with both of them playing the last note of the song.

The story shows the life of the man. How he exprience love, death, and life. The little boy represents the continuity of life. The transition of the old boy to the young grandchild shows how their life are similar. Playing the last note of the song symbolized the connection of the two characters. However it leaves the viewers a question, since the boy is the continuation of the life of the grandfather, how will the he play the piano (How will he live his life)? Will it be a sad song or a joyful one?

The setting is in a dark place where the man and the piano is spotlighted while conveying the story. The lighting sets the mood of sadness filled with high contrast of lights and shades. The character animation is quite stiff and awkward like the scenes where the soldier falls in the ground. However, the package is very good.

Genre: Musical / Comedy
Type of Animation: Claymation
Creator: Jerome Rousseaux

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"Don't Eat the Dog" is a short animation based on a song about little dogs that are eaten by french people. It says that dead dogs that get run over by buses (and even ferraris) are turned into sausages and hamburgers. The setting is in the streets of France where wreckless drivers don't seem to care for the little dogs and leave them dead after running over them. There is one distinct character in the animation that has different roles. He served as the man who is singing in the balcony, the policemen, the priest, the butcher, the driver and the lady who owns the dog.

Technically, the animation is very good in terms of character animation and cinematography. In stop motion, natural lighting is difficult because the production is usually done in the studio. The short film acquired natural looking day light in spite of this difficulty. They also captured the motion of the dogs which is difficult to do. One good factor of the short film is its musicality. Every line conveys a point with wit and humor and without being boring.

It's in posters, artworks, and fashion. The use of types and fonts has been a classic element in the field of design. Today, there are a lot of different font faces that can be downloaded for free at websites such as 1001freefonts.com and dafont.com. Designers can now use s variety of styles ranging to grungy eroded fonts to fancy retro fontfaces. Some of my few personal favorites are the customized font faces developed and designed by the Last Soundtrack such as the Bleeding Cowboys, the Maple Origins, and Birth of a Hero.

In advertising, font styles are used to attract audiences and may present a certain mood. In publishing and editorial design, fancy fonts are not so practical to use so that the reader's eyes wont be stressed out. Serif fonts (fonts with accents) like Times New Roman and Georgia, are used for lenghty paragraphs because it is more readable than that of Sans serif fonts (fonts without accents). However, Sans serif fonts are used in headlines and posters because it can catch the readers attention.

Today, texts are also used in art. The form of a character can be used to represent an element in an artwork. This is called the art of Typography. Text could be used to convey information both literally and figuratively. Last monday in my photoshop class, we had an activity on typography. Their task is to create a poster that uses typography and vector shapes to promote a certain issue or genre. Here are some of their outputs.



by Rameer Tawasil
Issue: Peace


by Joboy Faundo
Music / Advertising

by Danica
Issue: Premarital Sex / Teenage Pregnancy

Visit my multiply account for more of my students' output.

April 22 marks a special day for the planet. This is a day to appreciate the bounty of nature and to make ourselves awared concerning the issues that affect our environment like global warming. Today, I celebrate Earth day through my craft, which is art. I serve as an instructor during the 1-month arts summer program of the Gallery of the Peninsula and the Archipelago, where I instruct 7 students in developing image acquisition through Adobe Photoshop CS2. One of our activities is to create a poster for earth day which also promote enviromental issues. Here are some of their outputs.


For more of my students creations, visit my multiply account. Anyways, I also made an OBB (opening billboard) inspired by the Earth Day celebration using Adobe AfterEffects for my final project in my Video Production class. Enjoy!