27/09/2017 Introduction to Animation Principles

In this first post of my Animation Principles blog we were required to share and criticise some of our favourite animations.

At the moment I am really into a particular animated series, Bojack Horseman, which is without any doubt one of the deepest and more powerful animated series.

The characters are very complex and each one has their different own life and way of thinking, potentially they could all exist and be real people. The story is constantly evolving and never to be taken for granted. Every episode is unique in style and rhythm of narration.

The way characters are drawn is very simple and it's curious how all these animals/humans keep some of their animal behaviour. Details are very important to look at, there is always something fun or nonsense hidden somewhere.

I am a huge fan of stop motion, for this reason I loved Mark Osborne's movie on the Little Prince.

It's a mixture between sophisticated 3d animation and stop motion animation made essentially by paper. Some moments of the movie were just mind blowing, the narrative was very different from the book, which has been a wise choice.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

I really love how many aspects of the life of the little kid are exaggerated, her life itself is all programmed by her mum, with no space for her at all, and then she meets a character with a completely opposite lifestyle then her, the old man, which will put all she knows upside down.

I am quite into anime as well, and to me the best are the ones from Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki. It's a completely different way of making Japanese animation, in fact everyone of their movies is unique and different from each other, even though we can find some common features in most of them.

Their best movie is, without any doubt, Spirited Away. It's just so majestic how they can mix poular Japanese traditions with fantasy and create such a masterpiece. I loved the rhythm of the movie, the soundtrack, the pastel colours, everything make you to fully immerse in this fantastic world populated by spirits, dragons and other weir creatures.
The animation is really fluid to be an anime, the lines are thin and gentle, the hand of Miyazaki is evident.

That's it for now. Ciao!

Eleonora




Images and gifs: Netflix, Giphy, Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock