Nina

We made some particles in Maya, which was entertaining. Here's one I made ^ I thought it was really fun. Entertainment value was off the charts. 

Th e World of Tomorow is a short sci-fi film created by Don Hertzfeldt. It follows a young girl who is contacted by a third-generation clone of herself from the future. The clone precedes to show the young girl the world of the future and tells her about her life in the future. The film won 46 awards, including awards from Sundance, SXSW and Animafest Zagreb. I found the film entertaining and creative. The animation style was very simple and added to the childlike wonder of young Emily. It contrasted well with stories shown and told to young Emily by future Emily, because the content in the plot was quite dark and chilling in subject matter as it focused prominently on a human society whose extreme fear of death has allowed them to "cage" themselves rather than to die. The simplistic animation style works really well because it changes the tone from being super depressing to feeling somewhat light-hearted and funny. It shows young Emily's innocence and lack of unde...

Loving Vincent is a 2017 animated film, animated entirely in the painting style of Vincent van Gogh. Each of the films frames are an oil painting on canvas. First, they cast actirs who looked simialar to the subjects in van Gogh's paintings. They shot them on greenscreen and then painted the backgrounds (van Gogh's paintings) to put in behind. They then painted over the actors in van Gogh's style and painted all of the frames onto canvas. The film took four years to complete for a team of 125 painters.