Phantom boy, one of the animated film that I seen on this year's Manchester Animation Festival. The narrative within the film, as I seen, is very successful that demonstrated the full story in an intense tempo. I enjoyed watching the animation either on the story telling and the unique art style as well.
The other highlight would be the successful built of the villain character, with the presentation of the evil characteristic on his colourful collage face, every details on him makes the character's personality extremely obvious.
Pearl is a film that I first know in Manchester Animation Festival 2016, it is more than a film, but a taste of animation combined with new technology, a VR experience. It tells a story of a life journey of a girl called Pearl started with her childhood and ended by her grown up life with her friends.
The highlight of this animation personally would be narrating a story with in a tiny fixed space, therefore it is all about the elements around that is constantly changing to demonstrate the elapse of time, the clever part is that it engages with the property of virtual reality and took advantages of the 360 degree perspective to showcase the events taking place all around the audience.
