The first animation chosen was ‘Pigeons’ by a youtuber called ‘Xander.mpg’. This animation shows a group of city pigeons creating music using their surrounding objects. The reason this animation was chosen as a good example was to show how the pigeons have been designed/animated, this animation shows the very detailed and characteristic movements a pigeon makes, like the fast blinking and head tilting. The animated characteristics of these pigeons are something that would be used in the personal classical animation piece.
This next animation is not related to the topic of the classical animation piece but shows is a good example for showing the movement of how the final animation will look. This video shows a bird-like cartoon walking and coming across yellow balls that it decides to consume. The character remains in the centre of the screen and path is moving in the opposite direction to emphasis the movement in the walk. This is how the final animation piece will be designed. The idea is to have the pigeon be central but walking on the spot and the path/background will move across in the opposite direction.
This final animation shows the transitioning of a whales evolution, again the animal remains in the centre of the screen as it changes appearance and its surrounding environment moves in the opposite direction, again to show the animal walking/swimming through time. This is relevant to the final animation piece because this animal is moving through a history timeline while remaining central. This animation can also be considered educational which is another aim for the personal animation piece.
The audio used in these three animations is very minimal, neither of the videos have a voice or narration which will be similar to the end result of the classical animation piece. The aim is to have an audio of a pigeon cooing and maybe some slow, acoustic music overlapped. Using minimal audio can draw further attention to the actual animation and having a certain genre of music can emphasis the emotions the audience will experience during their viewing of the animation.
References
Nuggets. (2014) YouTube. Available online: https://youtu.be/HUngLgGRJpo [Accessed 16 Mar. 2023].
Pigeons. (2022) www.youtube.com. Available online: https://youtu.be/a93DUkkJGQ4 [Accessed 16 Mar. 2023].
Whales evolution. (2007) www.youtube.com. Available online: https://youtu.be/8cn0kf8mhS4 [Accessed 16 Mar. 2023].