OUAN403 - Animation Skills:
As I blogged about earlier, pixilation was one of the tasks our group had to study and take part in. Beforehand, before the brief had been set, we had watched a series of short pixilation animations on the presentation. A few of them were: Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel, Food by Jan Švankmajer and Neighbours by Norman McLaren.
After watching Food by Jan Švankmajer and the way he makes the characters walk, or rather shuffle across the screen, I decided that I did not want to take that approach in my pixilation as I wanted to try and make my characters look as if they were actually walking - a real walk cycle using real people.
In Neighbours by Norman McLaren, he took a very political approach to his animation by using two opposing parties to create a funny and amusing yet controversial conflicting scene between the two. I rather liked this take on making politics fun with his use of very slapstick humour. I thought about doing something along those lines theme-wise in my pixilation (I did in the end). I thought the very "retro" computerised, video game-like sound effects to accompany their actions was a great idea too as it added to the humour and made it seem more child-like although the message was very serious.
In Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel, I loved how quirky and outrageous the music video actually was! It was very abstract and used lots and lots of random objects in the animation doing all sorts of weird and wonderful things! It made the video extremely entertaining to watch as you did not expect what was going to happen. I did want an air of an unexpectedness in my animation, however not as strong as this! I wanted each action to have a particular meaning in mine.
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