A few that a found particularly interesting were:
- Sebastians Voodoo by Joaquin Baldwin
- Behind Closed Doors by Jonathan Button
- Mighty Antlers by une Reinhardt, Mikael Ilnæs, Michael L. Fonsholt, Jouko Keskitalo
- Who's Hungry by David Ochs
A cold splash in the face: characters don't have to be humans. I always seem to forget this, considering it's a very important fact that I mustn't every forget. Just being so used to constantly drawing human figures and characters, I seem to forget that characters don't always have to be human or even animal. They can be beanbags, a chair or even something that simply doesn't exist. It does not have to be something that exists in real life and that lives or moves in real life. It does't even necessarily need limbs, those are just there to give the object some sort of personification.
An important point I always forget.
The extreme detail in the texture of the voodoo doll is also something that must be praised. Even if it's a puppet used to animate, it's still amazing to get so much emotion of of an object without a face. The heavy breathing of the character is given so much attention since it's one of the only ways of showing how extremely afraid the little doll is of, who we're assuming is, Sebastian.
I don't exactly understand what exact animation style this is. Cut out animation? It seems the closes in my eyes at least, with some help from maybe 2D animation. The movement of the characters is so strange, it's freaky on it's own even if the storyline wasn't there. Being something that could easily be either choppy or too slow, it's very smooth and flows brilliantly.
I also love the touch of dark circles on all the characters. A very common thing found on most peoples faces that is just ignored in animations. It also emphasises the distress of each member in the family and the depth indicates their stress levels. Even the small child, our main protagonist, his them at such a young age. It's a simple but amazing touch that gives so much perfective into the characters life.
I wouldn't call it my favourite animation or storyline but I do love the evident skill of understand how lighting work. The shadows and angel of light is perfect in every scene. The contract is high and the facial features/body structure is very sharp, both these elements come together and produce such high quality results when accompanied by the lighting in the animation.
The character designs and scenery aren't bad either. They're rather grimy and rough looking, while being very detailed at the same time.
Altogether it's a very messy looking animation but it seems to fit very well with the scenes we see. Most of which are action and of the two characters fighting. These are emphasised with beautiful sound effects and slow-motion action shots to give the short and quick scenes of action a lot of justice.
Disturbing is a brilliant word to sum it up. Creepy as hell fits very well too. All the scenes are hand drawn brilliance. The storyline is of an ice-cream who takes kids, locks them in the freezer and grinds their frozen bodies up and eats them.
Everything being hand down in a detailed but scribbly manner and in black and white adds to the feel of uncomforted to the animation. There's a lot of shadows filled in with a very dark black contrasting with some very white areas.
The backgrounds and scenes are generally just very detailed and fills up the whole screen, where as the characters are very simple looking and not very detailed. Round enough heads with small and very 2 diminutional bodies. I really like this method because you can easily differentiate between the character and their surroundings, rather than loosing them in all the detail. It's just a smile method that I think works and looks good to me.
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