Gary's Critique.

I thought that I would choose a short movie to critique after last week's presentations.  Especially after making a movie of my own, I can only imagine how much work was put into this. I thought filming my roommate, putting together clips, and adding jingles in the background was difficult.  

Here, the artist named Gary, made a short animation film.  It had gotten a number of hits while it has been uploaded to the internet so far.  The capture is a classic scene from the movie.  It shows a sneak preview into the world of Gary. Will this be about love? What do the semi-warm colors suggest? His gigantic frame to her tiny stature? 

It opens to a little boy, Gary, fantasizing about what seems to be his babysitter.  He wishes to just kiss her after watching her giggle and galavant around the backyard in a bikini.  Here the colors of the animation are warm; you feel emotion towards both characters.  You want Gary to win.  Gary returns to his room to show off his shadow muscles and proceeds to make a teenager version of himself, in hope that it will come alive. Here he is shown in blacks and reds. This shows lots of emotion- black (the shadow, what he wishes to be, his inner desire) and the red (a yearning, compassion) 

The shadow becomes real! The older Gary is kissing the babysitter!! Little Gary wishes it was him as he watches from a tall tree.  Things get rough.  Little Gary is dropped from the tree into the babysitters long, red hair which is shown as water, an ocean.  Gary struggles to swim to the surface.  When he comes up, he sees struggling and tries to stop Big Gary from causing a ruckus. Big Gary eats little Gary and he is stuck in a black hole of himself.  He isnt struggling anymore (the water) just dealing with the consequences of the monster that he created. 

Gary pushes and pushes and finally is released free from Big Gary.  Big Gary begins to disintegrate into blackness in a red night sky. His eyes are red- this suggests that Big Gary was evil.  Telling us the theme of the film- the desires may always get the best of us and if you do not keep yourself in check, you may turn into a monster. (In the simplest of terms, ever.) the movie ends with Little Gary returning to his old self with warm colors and friendly faces playing in the summer heat.

I think that this animation is very well made!! I can only imagine the skill and time that it took. I assume that illustratoror flash software was used.  The shading and color choices were excellent in setting the mood of the piece.  The personification of shadows, hair, etc. made it ten times more exciting! I even enjoyed the credits and the opening title page. They were very simple yet used repetition of images, font and color to bring about out the continuity of the film. I also really liked the audio clips. It was difficult for me to make such decisions, and I feel like each of the clips in here were on point.