Monday 28 October 2013

OUAN403 - Animation Skills - Identify: Pendleton Ward's "Bravest Warriors"

OUAN403 - Animation Skills:

Created by Pendleton Ward, also the creator of Adventure Time, Bravest Warriors is yet another fun-filled action-packed animation telling a story of a group of teenagers who have been trapped in secluded dimensions and strange parts of the universe. Their goal is to save cute aliens and the habitats and worlds belonging to such aliens by using the power of their emotions.

This adorably entertaining animation uses the same art style - Ward's signature style - as Adventure Time and is similar in story and morals as it is aimed at children to teach them that being kind and helping others no matter how different they are always results in great things! By using cute characters and creatures to represent the aliens/teenagers, this attracts children more in comparison to grotesque-looking ones. This animation focuses on feelings, emotions and empathy.

The protagonists, Beth, Chris, Wallow and Danny have all been given very outrageous and "poles apart from each other" personalities. I think that this is to appeal to a wide range of children who are maybe borderline teenagers as their emotions and personalities might want someone to relate to. The characters come across as very "cool" and "hip" in the way they talk to each other. They all use slang to communicate with each other which would be appealing to teenagers and children and it would indeed seem "awesome" to them.

I think the message of this animation is that no matter how different we all are, whatever we are (be that alien or human!), we can all get along and work together because together we're greater than being alone. Pendleton Ward uses this moral in Adventure Time too as you never see the protagonist (Finn) alone. He also has his friends to help him through his adventures.


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