Monday, July 24, 2017

BSA306, Animation shorts review, 24 July, 2017


I saw the live-action movie Train to Busan a few months ago and really liked it.  The focus was on a believable family drama unfolding in the chaos of the beginning of a zombie outbreak.  Themes of family, class, and nation were all explored and the VFX were excellent.
Seoul Station trailer
This is the animated prequel to the movie showing the zombie epidemic taking hold.
Figures in the crowd are outlined in white, like they're being backlit, which helps them stand out from the dark background and general lack of light.


Nice use of motion blur here on the foreground figures to show extreme speed while keeping focus on the figure in the background.  
The Red book (1994) by Janie Greiser, stop motion
The reviewer reckons this is about relearning a language and therefore having to relearn yourself.  Dunno, looks good, though. 
Dialogue-free, the sound of clanking and machinery working follows the woman around.
I love the shadows that are cast by these paper pieces.  I think that this effect could be faked in a 2D program by creating a light source and then selecting which objects cast shadows.  That could be an interesting way of giving Ashes to Gold more visual depth.
Voynich Manuscript Ted ED

Another nice little animation, this time done by Ted ED.  Is it stop motion and 2D animation, or fully 2D and lit to look like dimensional objects?  I love the puppets and their obvious joints.

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