Fresh Cut Grass

Fresh Cut Grass is also an animation in competition screened on the Manchester Animation Festivel. It is in a very cartoonish style and with the main character of an animal, a dog, which is different to many other animations in the competition. It tells a story of a dog travels into the city trying to find the girl dog that he likes, discovering that she ended up being a strip teaser. It is about finding back the initial insists and dreams, when losing the direction of life. I like the colours that is used in the animation, which is very contrasting but harmony to other colours as well.

Guida

Guida is in the animation selection in competition that was screened in the Manchester Animation Festival. It has impressed me very much with its special techniques of doing the animation, that the background was done seperately with the character, and the movements of the character done afterwards on top of the backgrounds. I love how the colours had been combined with the brown tone background. The watercolour effect has been used cleverly to indicate the shadow and light.

Shaun the Sheep

The new movie of Shaun the Sheep has been screen on the second day of the Manchester Animation Festival. Before I did not put a high expectation to the film, as I thought it is not the kind of animation that I would like, but after I finished watch the film, I actually enjoyed and discovered a range of good aspects of the film. It is a stop-motion animation, made by filming the models' movement on set landscape and animate it afterwards. The animation flows very smoothly though it is a stop-motion, therefore obviously the scenes are carefully planned and filmed in a highly controlled standard.

Sea Child

Graduation film in compitition, during the first day of Manchester Animation Festival, Sea Child is my favourite, and the animation that I voted for. It is produced by animating paintings created frame by frame, in a tone of black and red. It is a narrative of a story of the journey of a girl who was born in a fishing family, which is presented by her gramma killing a fish at the start of the animation, it uses exaggerated expression of the graphic that captures audience's eyes. It used a abstract presentation in some of the parts of the film, while the style of the paintings has extremely interested me.

Song of the Sea

A extremely beautiful piece of animated film directed by Tom Moore, which I firstly see on the Manchster Animation Festival and would possibly see again. From sketch to the final outcome, it has clearly travelled a long way to achieve the final aniamtion and the splendid experience it offers to the audience. What the animation has interested me is mainly because of the graphic, the drawings created, the movements of the characters are very smooth and the backgrounds with the character combines nicely and interacts with each other. Yet the story is relatively simple, the graphic has make up for a deficiency of the animation.