Looking through the various links on the project brief, there are a few that have really caught my eye. First of all, the video I was most impressed with was the "OK Go" music video based on Rube Goldberg style mechanisms. I really like the humour in this video and the extravagant mechanisms. Although random, the sequence of events are linked to the song which I think makes it more like a definate 'film' and more enjoyable to watch that just a un-related sequence of events. It is fun and silly but also has more of a point to it and a clear conclusion (the band being blasted with paint, which felt like a conclusion to me as I was wondering why were they covered in paint throughout the video! This for me brought the film together). I also felt the Honda advert was successful in this way.
The "OK Go" video led me onto researching more into the American Rube Goldberg and the very similar British artist W. Heath Robinson (both also on the portal). They are both very similar in their work, but I particularly liked Robinson's style for the intricacy of his illustrations/inventions. Also like the "OK Go" video, there is much humour in their cartoons. I especially liked Robinson's WW1 cartoons of very unusual "weapons" and war devices: http://www.ideafixa.com/voce-nao-desenha-nada-w-heath-robinson/
For my animation, I would like to use the same sort of style as W.Heath Robinson has used in his cartoons. I would also like to put a little bit of narrative into the animation; to give the sequence of events caused by the ball a bit more purpose!
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