Mine!

Mine was a very dark, pencil drawn animation. Or at least I think it was done with pencil. The different transforming objects, the shading and effects, all very cool :). It was very different than most of the ones we've watched. Actually, it was completely different. The type of object transformations is something that I desperately want to learn how to do because they're awesome. Shape tweening, however, is not the nicest tool in Flash CS5. One day I'll get it right...

Fan and the Flower

Fan and the Flower was an interesting one. It was another great story about love...even though this type of love was incredibly unusual. I love the development of the story. I also love the rough style that the animator used. It's such a quirky story, I love the concept. I don't think I would ever do an exact replica, in terms of unusualness, but I definitely like the originality and that is something that I would try to replicate.

BITEY!!!!

Bitey was awesome. That was all I really needed to say. It was all done in flash and it looks insane. I dont really know what else to say. It kind of enlightened me to the potential power of Flash CS5. This is a short post because I can't say much other than it was AWESOME.

Moon and the Son

This, I'm assuming hand-made, piece was awesome. It told a great story and used some great animations. I think the animator was going for a "thought bubble" kind of style. To me it looked like something from a cartoon where a character thinks in a thought bubble and the cartoon inside the bubble looks like it was shaded in and poorly drawn, but this was not poorly drawn in any way. I love the italian culture and love to speak italian, and to see some of that thrown into the animation definitely caught my attention. I love the fluidity of it, something I want to try.

Creep

Creep was weird. I'd expect something that is called "Creep" to come off as kind of weird. It was actually very interesting and I kind of hope to use some of the techniques in some of my animations. The fact that things were being built in front of the viewers was pretty cool. And things being drawn and colored was also pretty cool.

Old Mill and Danish Poet

These were actually some awesome animations. They used some interesting styles, actually they were very contrasted. Both told a story, and both were interesting stories. The Old Mill style of animation was a Hanna-Barbera-esque animation, or at least to me it had that feel. I felt like I was watching a long cutscene from an episode of Tom and Jerry. The Danish Poet was quiet odd. Great love story, very well executed. Everything was much more simplistic in terms of artwork, but I think that the art did it justice.

Reactions to first animations

Winsor McCay seemed to use a lot of repetition in his movements. That probably had a lot to do with all the loops that were applied in the animations. Prince Achmed was a more old school, 1920's I think, animation that actually had some crazy designs. The colors were simple and that actually aided in making the animation look more complex. The same can be said about the Bendito Machine animation. Very simple color palette and a reliance on using silhouettes. They both used very basic shapes. The final animation was a simple one with a single point of view. It seemed very odd, especially how it was always changing, and it leads me to question why it was done that way. Were people bored of it? I don't know.