The Fan and the Flower

This animation is The Fan and the Flower, by Bill Plympton. This animation follows the love between a ceiling fan and a potted plant. One thing that is interesting is how much detail is accomplished with such little use of color in the animation. There is only one instance in which there is color, and that is when the potted plant is blooming in different ways for the fan. The rest of the time there are 3 colors used: White, Black, and Grey. Despite this though, the animator succeeds in creating a lot of detail, such as dust on the fan after it had not spun for a while. IT shows that a wide range of colors is not always necessary to show detail in an animation.