Week 2: Good and Bad animation according to my understanding.

To me, Inside Out is a good animation. Like all the others Disney animation film, The movie gives the audience a good visual experience. In other words, the appeal is fantastic.

They know when and how to simplify the things in the scene in order to obtain the audience’s focus. And all of the characters’ key actions happened sequencing, so the audience won’t be confused of what to look at. Also, secondary actions is quite good. I easily tell the character’s mood though their body language. In fact, I know that Disney will do well in all aspects.

So, I was beginning wondering is there something that Disney can improve in Inside Out. And I actually did fine something basic on my knowledge of 12 principles of animation. There is a scene that Joy jumps over lava from floating furniture. There is anticipation but her hair was not stirred because of her movement. Her hair remained almost the same throughout the animation, I guessed the reason for that might be no rig on her hair. However it is a failure from the perspective of follow through.

And most of the anime I watch is anime. The main characteristic of anime is actually the narration of the story, many of the characters in the background Always don’t move. So it’s really hard to pick out what I think is a good basic on the 12 Principles of Animation. But apart from that, there is one of the best anime in my mind call Great Pretender.

There are plenty of close up shot in this anime, the timing and staging is really good and attractive to the audience. In addition, all the color schemes in this anime are surprisingly good. The colors give the audience a strong sense of impact, but there is no visual fatigue due to the good staging (rule of thirds).

And the exaggerations are used very well. These make the characters’ emotions more apparent and real. These exaggerated expressions are undoubtedly more convincing to the audience.