Here is the link to the story my animation will be based on. The animation is only a possibility of why the girl was abandoned. Nobody really knows what happened before, the nun found her in the market place.
(Note: Something went wrong with the audio when I exported to .mov)
My final project will be an animation on an abandoned baby girl. It's based on a true story I found on allgirlsallowed.org. The baby girl was abandoned by her family and left in a basket (in a market place). A nun came by the village and saw the basket with the baby inside. The nun adopted her. Up until this day, the child (whose 18 years old now) still does not know who her parents are or why she was abandoned. My animation will touch on what I think happened when the girl was born, and a possibility of why she was abandoned.
Waking Life is a film directed by Richard Linklater. It’s a animation about dreams and the unconscious The whole film was rotoscoped. They first recorded live actors and then had different artists rotoscope the frames, using the computer. You could tell that there were different styles in the rotoscopes. Some of the scenes looked like they were just bitmapped. I did not like the fact that they used different artists because the styles were different and therefore the rotoscopes were colored differently and gave the film a shaky feeling. It made me nauseous.
However, I did like how Waking Life had silly little comical animations to connect with the audience more. For example when the girl was talking about love and mini animations came up on the side (they were like visuals of the words she was saying). Then there was one where a guy was talking about how humans are mostly composed of water, and a masked animation of water was building up in him. Then he said something about a gear and his head turned to a gear, and he said world view and the earth comes up. There were a lot of these mini animations on that side that are really interesting, because when people watch interviews, they tend to get bored and the mini animations are a great way to keep the viewers interested. Also some people are better with visuals and having those mini animations would allow the viewer to understand better. The mini animations also help with the plot, which is about dreams and in dreams anything can happen a man’s head can turn into a gear or atoms.
I also loved the transitions from one scene to the next in Waking Life. For example there was one scene where the main character was in a bar and the “camera” panned from table to table in the bar listening in on the conversations that went on, then it went to two men that had guns and when they pulled the trigger, the film transitioned to another scene, like a dream. In dreams noise like gun shots would trigger transitions to a different dream. The use of the monkey projecting the scenes was pretty cool too. Another thing I realized is that things are always floating in the film, which is another representation of dreams.
This was an interesting film, but the shaky feeling really detached me from the film and was a real turn-off. I almost couldn't go through with the film, it made me super dizzy.
Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir is an interesting animated piece. The film deals
with Folman retracing his steps back to the Lebanon War in 1982. The characters
and the environment are all shown in very specific details, even the rain moves
in the direction the wind shifts (like in real life). According to Wikipedia,
the film took four years to complete and it was made completely with Flash (Impressive!).
Wikipedia also mentions that the film is one of the “first Israeli animated
feature-length films released in movie theaters since Alina and Yoram Gross's
Ba'al Hahalomot (1962).”
The film’s artistic style was the use of
realistic graphics, almost like a comic book. Wikipedia even noted that the
film actually branched out with a comic book. The drawings are so “realistic”
to the point where people confuse it to be a rotoscope piece. Surprisingly it
was not rotoscoped, it uses classic animation, in Flash. It used classic music
to set the tone and mood of the animation, this is very important and effective
because the music helps enhance the audience’s interaction with the movie, and
it engages the reader because of the moods.
I love that this film is an animated
documentary. The fact that the documentary is animated is definitly one of the
reasons I was drawn to the film. The animation made the film less boring and
more interesting. It draws the viewer in and then when the viewer is sucked in
to the movie, they conclude the film with horrific real life visuals to leave
the reader thinking and surprised. It was brilliant!
