Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Mindless Production

Iv made a site dedicated to our stop motion production 'Invalid'.
go to - www.mindless.2hell.com

Friday, September 7, 2007

Rapture

Picture underwater 1940 city. Welcome to Rapture. A world created out of hatred of the real world. Where it can’t be touched by democracy. Where the word War has no meaning. Where there is no god.

1940 pop culture in a toilet. i love it.



Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Slow-IN and Slow-OUT

The GOOD:

1)The boy gets tripped by the rope and come down hard.

2)good example as the lady character leaps across the screen

3)As the. . . hippo thing slowly opens its mouth and gets up from sleep.

The BAD:

4)The sheep moves the papers very robotically.

5)The characters tween up and down to represent jumping.

6)The dogs tale slaps like a stick.







Appeal

The GOOD:

1)Grate animation and colour use.

2)Very smooth and funny.

3)Simple and bright, good staging too.

The BAD:

4)Crap drawings and lazy animation.

5)Looks like a M$ paint animation.

6)Dull and boring.







Secondary Action

The GOOD:

1)As the character moves electric sparks come from her hair.

2)Once the hamburger drops the source shoots out the sides.

3)As the character runs, he leaves a trail of colour behind him..

The BAD:

4)No secondary movement from the spring.

5)As the character runs through the dusty ground no dust is kicked up.

6)Poor secondary lighting as the characters fly through the screen.







Arcs

The GOOD:

1)The Kiwis beak arcs as he pulls the rope.

2)The characters arms move is a smooth arc.

3)The nose of the bug slowly lowers into the bowl.

The BAD:

4)The monkeys arm movements are rigged.

5)The characters body animation is stiff.

6)Very simple tween was use for this character.







Follow Through and Overlapping

The GOOD:

1)The earrings move after the character stops.

2)The hair has a secondary movement after the characters head.

3)The hat bounces while the character walks.

The BAD

4)There is no movement when the stick pushes the objects.

5)The characters animation is very static.

6)Very simple movement with no expression.







Solid Drawing

The GOOD:

1)Smooth and fluent animation.

2)Clean animation.

3)Nice style and colour.

The BAD:

4)Lazy drawings.

5)Sketcky animation.

6)Very messy.







Squash and Stretch

The GOOD:

1)The box is stretched

2)The man squeezes the drinks till it explodes

3)The couch reacts to the characters movements

The BAD:

4)The horse is very stiff

5)The hand is static when it grabs a character

6)The jelly fish float with no character animation.












Staging

The GOOD:

1)Bright colorful setting

2)Bold characters.

3)Foreground and background

The BAD:

4)Hard to see.

5)Character matches the background colour.

6)To much blue.