BAF- Day 2

Today we started off with Student 2- I liked 'Rabbit and dear' by Peter Vacz. I thought it was cute! I also like how the used the medium to tell the story. The fact that they started off 2D was part of the story, and how when dear went to clay, rabbit couldn't touch anything cause they were different. But they still made their friendship work which is a nice story :) They should make a kids show out of that!

I think my favourite of this set was ' The odd sound out' by Ida Maria Schouw Andreasen and Pernille sihm. (whats with all the difficult names?!) It was an excellent 2D computer animation about a group of sounds, portraying a mans emotions, but one of the sounds doesn't fit in so he goes in search of new sounds but doesn't find the right group, and ends up back where he was but he fits in now. It was a lovely story with a nice cute character. I thought 'what a fantastic idea'. If someone says draw a sound I automatically think of the shape of the line. It's so clever that this person thought of personifying these sounds!

Professional 3 was next- My favourite here was 'Mr Hublot' by Laurent Witz. I like the 3D computer animation style, its almost like Pixar! Such a lovely story too. I like how his character is portrayed, the little things he does- you know he's OCD and scared of going outside. I also love the dogs character. He's a robot, yet it animated like a real dog, all fun and bouncy! I think that's good because it must be difficult to do when you know its not supposed to be real.

Another one I liked was 2D computer animation called 'My three Grandmas' by Katalin Glaser. I liked that this was 2D, it helped show that it was from childhood memories of the person doing the voice over. A nice story too- I'm sure a lot of people (including myself) can relate to having 3 grandmothers and how they are all so different.

Last on this day was Animated projects: Random acts. I actually didn't enjoy this. I understand that they were done fast and with a budget but... they just didn't seem professional at all. Also I prefer the longer animations with a bit more substance and story. I did however enjoy ' Apocalypse Rhyme' This was a typography animation which just looked utterly beautiful. The way it moved, the art, just beautiful.