Pear Cider and Cigarettes

This is one of the animation which got me extremely interested in animated documentary.It is nominated by Oscar, introduced the relationship between Robert, the director, with a ‘self-destructive, yet charismatic’ friend (IMDb, 2016) in a form of informal documentary, colours and typography demonstrated in the layout of the scenes have strongly emphasis characteristics with adult topics as sexual, addiction and brutal expressions, an unacceptable form of existence by the society. Scenes were used more than once, the switches between stages along the story line clearly demonstrated the transitions of perspective followed by the audience with the character himself.

Character Design Reference

Through the Character Design Reference, which is a regularly theme setting challenge of character design, I found some interesting character designer and illustrators, which inspired me and I am willing to get in touch for an interview. As for the questions I have been considered, would mostly be around self-selling and the presentation of the ideas.

Useful links I saved for myself.

https://grizandnorm.squarespace.com/about-us/

http://megpark.tumblr.com/

http://t-wei.tumblr.com/

http://www.silvertoons.com/portfolio-feature

http://ajharart.tumblr.com/

Sztuka spadania and Less than human

Fallen art(2004), a 3D short animated film. The highlight of the animation is the delicate 3D models and the narration of the story in a effective way, and most importantly inspired me with the color script mainly of dark and dull colors to emphasis the atmosphere. Therefore it reminded me of another animation called Less than human, that I have came across when looking at references for context and practice. Fortunately I found a color script for the animation that demonstrated how different colors are used in different scenes to show the change of scenes and atmospheres.

Father and Daughter

A delicate piece of animation showcased a story about the life time of a girl growing old waiting for her dad to come back from the other side of the ocean, but discovered an empty boat sinked in the dried lake where her dad left her in her childhood. I came across this animation during my research of context of practice. What I like about the animation is the water color effect background and the simple outlines.

Moana

Disney released the film Moana in 2016, a featured film that is about the adventure of the feminist character Moana finding the other character to protect her family.

After watching the animation, I researched for the character design as my specific interests, and recognized Bobby Pontillas, the character animator and designer in Disney who did the concept character design in Moana, and has been invited to the Character Design Challenge as guest judge as well. His design boards gives me references of the way to present series of character design that is based on one conception of world.