Butterfly – Yinqian, Yining Yang, Tiana, Devon Their lighting significantly improved compared to the tests that their test. They also used pixilation which i fond very exciting i want to try that in the future. i found that the use of sound help build the scene and facilitate the image they built. Some of the sound they used really subverted my expectations for how well they worked. Kate on of my classmates made a very good comment about how calming and dream like the short animation was. This led to a conversation about ambiguity. Some of the creation takes place as the viewer watches as there always have their own interpretations.

Bird – Gab, Kate, Blessing – (some added help from me) I absolutely love the sound that they used. the original critic is that it was very simple story wise and there wasn’t any thing for the audience to infer of guess so they tried to be more experimental and physically pulled apart puppet. Before they pulled apart the puppet they did a few close ups of the intricate build of their puppet – honestly did an amazing job. Breaking him down to the most basic components and then even further down into geometric shapes. Using though shapes the transformed the bird into a rabbit. the general consensus was that that the sense of energy and understanding of physics was amazing to watchin there displacement animation. It had the ambiguity of the hand of God inspired by ‘stems’ and the inherent sadness of puppets plus the power we hold over them as creators.

Burger Man -Young, Ryne, Bella and Shania The test informed this team of how the proportion of the puppet was slightly off and as a result the puppet couldn’t walk. After a few test and practicing the team collectively got better control of the puppet. The emotion of the head was wonderful, the cute visual quirks that is had was very cute. it is also one of the only puppet with an actual face with eyes, nose and a mouth. Their transformation was a newspaper into a croissant – the way they transformed it immediately reminded me of the collage of Madoka Magica. The conversation goes an ad we are reminded of affordance design – it is asking us to move relationship between a designed object without text. This group the lighting really helped with suspending our disbelief as well as pushing forward the different textures they used to make the suit.

Fox man- Daffa, Nicole, Cassidy, Sophia The movement and spacing of the puppet improved with practice after multiple tests specifically slowing down the movement so it was a jittery. I was impressed by their cinematography, when the fox man kicks the bottle it flies towards the camara to transition to the shoot, it really made me as an audience member feel like an active participant. Even though the puppet was overexposed but i like how it shows how the fox is over exposed.

Rabbit – Nosa , Jingwen, Ryan, Esther(me) The singing in the background felt like i was putting a veneer over the animation, kind of telling how the audience how to feel. This singing draws more attention and flatted some of the other sounds I played. It almost felt like a music video. A lot of people commented on the crane shut and the slow zoom which i thought was really cool as it was one of the harder thing we did.

With the music