Professional Blog Semester 2 Animation Review

Summary

     This animation was made by a CalArts students who won an award in Indiana and other video festivals. It shows many smooth animation skills and the story is just as well-developed. The animation is about a little boy who plays music and shows off his animals for a penny. However, there are two other animal shows tat seem to better than his. He wins over the crowd in the end and gets a lot of pennies for his animals' food.

The Process/Comparisons 

     This animation is a 2d animation that looks like After Effects was used quite frequently. I saw layers shift like how you would make the backgrounds shift in After Effects. Also I saw the use of frame-by-frame animation in the lip-syncing.
     The use of layers and smooth frames is something I would love to be able to put into my own animations. Lip-syncing as well. One thing I have already learned is how to shift the background layers to look lie they're moving in After Effects.

Conclusion/Analysis

     The creator did best at making the animation smooth and clean as well as the story. The short looks like something you'd see on a kid's cartoon channel and it's already fantastic. I think that there are some frames where it's a little bit rough, but I can't hold it against them since they did that all by themselves. Overall, this animation is well written and transferred phenomenally onto the screen. I aspire to be as talented as they are and their animation is well worth the award.

 Sjursen-Lien, Kiernan. "The Magnificent Menagerie of Melvin McMelanie". Vimeo.com. Web. 11 May 2017.

Video can be watched here