Wednesday, 21 October 2015

(a) vous regardez un film. -- OUAN402, Animation Skills, Identify

My French is way too rusty to comprehend lots of the text in this short film, but its simple story of a man's morning routine is pretty self explanatory. I found this film on Vimeo, where it received a staff pick. The film uses a really nice contrast between 3D digital and 2D drawn animation between scenes, sometimes mixing the two styles within a shot. Both are very heavily stylised, with the black and white drawn animation using a semi-realistic semi-cartoon style which works nicely with the exaggerated look of the 3D. The environment is a sparse white space which focuses attention onto the main character. There is a nice motif of repeated actions, each time done slightly differently - for example; as the man turns on the radio the narrative text says "(a) he listens to the news", the scene is then repeated, with a slightly different animation, the text reading "(b) he listens to jazz". I really like this sort of slightly self-referential humour.

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