Adam Phillips - Little Foot

In this class we watched the animations of Adam Phillips, and his Brackenwood Films. One particular animation is Little Foot. Probably the most impressive thing abou this animation is how different the walking and movement animations of the different characters are. The Littlefoot for example almost waddles, as if not used to walking quite yet. Bitey, the horned character, brings his legs out to the side before putting them forward. He also seems to bounce quite a bit when moving about. The different types of character movements gives the characters more personality and makes them more entertaining to watch.

Spirited Away

In this class we watched a documentary about the making of the film, Spirited Away. The documentary covers the making of the animation, and the voice recordings that go along with the animation. One particular thing that related to what we have been doing in class. The use of key drawings show when characters transition from one movement to the next. Much like what we have done in flash, with keyframes, the key drawings are the most important part of the animations because they show the movements the characters will make. Something else that was particularly interesting was the study of movements that the animators did when trying to capture the motions made when a character feeds something to a dragon. To try and get a sense of what this would be like, the animators looked at the motions made by dogs when fed in the same manner.