The illuminator uses color well to show the way the superhero uses its power to create brightness and darkness. During the animation brighness changes from bright to dark back to bright. This is done by using saturation. When the animation is bright there is a lot of saturation, but when the animation is dark there is a lot of value. The only thing this animation did not use was hue. All of the colors were the same type of blue, purple, or whatever the color was there was no variation. I understand that it is difficult to do this in pencil but maybe if there had been more hue the animation would have displayed the concept of the animation even better.
This animation also uses tension and release to create more meaning to the concept. At first the animation is bright with the illuminator in it. Then it keeps the illuminator as the familiar, but adds darkness to which is not familiar. Then at the end of the animation it is returned to the familiar with the brightness being restored.
In this animation the creator made this clip active. The creator showed what the illuminator can do, but it does not show how it affects the world or whether this is a good thing. This is a choice the audience can make. By doing this the creator has made this an active animation because the audience decides what they think of the illuminator.
Anne Archy in the UK uses a lot of movements in their animation. There is a lot of overlapping movement used to make the body move forward. An example is at the beginning when the legs and arms are both moving when the character is try to move to the side. The legs are moving at a different rate because they are trying to go somewhere while the arms are just moving to show movement. Weight is shown with the heart. The heart appears bigger and it takes a longer time for the arrow to go all the way through it and deflate. There is parallel movements when the character is jumping because it stays the same shape just moving for three frames.
This animation is another active theme. The creator did not really show whether or not the hearts were the bad guys or good guys. All we know is that the character shoots at the heart. This could be the villain or the hero, but the audience has to decide its self.
There is contrast and affinity created between the character and the heart. Both of these appear in the animation as things that can float. The difference is the heart has a color to it while the character is all black. Also the character is able to throw things while the heart was only able to float.
In this animation color was used to create differences among the hero and superhero. By doing this a contrast and affinity was created. Both superheroes were created with the same shapes but the colors were different to show which was the hero and which was the villain. The hero uses brighter colors with more saturation. This was done by using a bright orange and bright greens. The hero also has different hues of green. These different greens are all bright and most superheroes are made with bright colors to show that when the superhero comes to the rescue they are noticed right away. The villain uses more value to create a darker image. The villain also does not use hues as the superhero does. Instead it sticks with only black, a dark red, and a dark purple. All of these create a differences between the two characters to show which is the hero and which is the villain.
This animation unlike the other has a didactic theme. This animation tells the audience to root for the hero. It does this by shows the villain as evil, and in the end having the hero win. These two things make the audience root for the hero unknowingly.
I’m not sure whether Jennifer Applebaum’s Clown is a hero or a villain. I guess I will have to be SUBJECTIVE as in open to opinion about this. There are many HUES in the image of the clown. The general hues of his wardrobe are red, white and blue, which should mean that he is a hero in the sense that he is patriotic. However, this is all subjective thinking. Like most clowns, they carry balloons, and so does the Clown Patrol. The balloons in the image vary in hues and value. The brown has a lighter value while the purple seems to have a darker value and is more saturated. The MOOD of the clown seems to be happy due to his smile and yellow beams of light coming out of him. The animation doesn’t seem to have a lot of WEIGHT though. The only movement from the actual clown is the legs and the arm, but it doesn’t look like it is going anywhere. It doesn’t show weight or really any movement besides walking in place. There does seem to be some TENSION AND RELEASE in the animation though. The clown starts off with a balloon, and then the balloon turns into fire but then the fire is quickly put out spontaneously. That is some true tension and release.
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