http://www.theoddballroom.com/watch.html
The clip above is a short computer animated movie made by some college kids. The Odd Ballroom does struggle in some areas, it does succeeds in having an original story, and is very detail oriented in some aspects. The voice actors also play a very important role, for the narrator has a very deep, raspy voice. It fits well for the clip, because it is about freaks performing on stage. The clip does a good job to tell what it is about, and does a good job with the humor. Having the mimes fighting each other, and having the small kid bring out the massive man were the standouts. I thought it was funny as well that the janitor wished he was a freak, and at the end he finally gets his moment.
Obviously the quality in it is not on par with a lot of the computer animated movies the other stuff out there, the massive man’s breathing at times look unnatural as with his arms moving, and the water that came out of the fish woman did not look real. When the janitor falls, and spills the dirty water on himself, it looked very poorly dripping down him. I thought that the lighting was done very well, the light bulb would flicker in and out at times, which gave it a real look. The music in the background also went with the tone of the clip very well.It shows though, that you do not have to work at Pixar or somewhere like that to do computer animation.
Comment on Amanda Martin and Alissa Potter
March 22, 2010 at 2:35 pm |
Wow, this animation is by far one of the weirdest I’ve seen. It seems more like an older video game, animation-wise. The more realistic aspects are the backgrounds of the stage, hallways, janitor rooms, etc. The character’s themselves seem almost to be claymation in a way. I agree with Brandon, the water seems fake, like jelly actually.