Thursday, October 27, 2011

The Basic Elements- Animation

 Tone (Fullmetal Alchemist): There is sense of danger and evil in this screenshot as dark toned shadow creature surrounds most of the space while only a small amount of light is present around the grey armored victim. The tone works to convey evil and darkness making it clear the shadow like being with numerous eyes is a monster or an antagonist. This is done with an absence of light, dark borders, and the position of the characters. The image has very little light and is dominated by dark black borders enveloping most space while the grey character space composed of gray and some light to help highlight him. Tone helps the viewer's get a clear idea of what is going on in the image as dark tones dominate the space of the image and appears to be consuming everything including the small portion of light. Using tone the audience has a clear visual of a seemingly evil being about to consume light/good. Evil triumphs over good in this case.

 Movement (K-On): Coneys multiple moments(the character's limb appearing in different spaces like movement) in the time of a single frame making a character appear as though they are crawling quickly on the floor. Movement in the image serves to make a static character appear like they are in motion like they are alive or animated. The character is actually still but by having he limbs drawn in different poses, shapes, lengths, etc. in one drawing gives the audience the idea she is a live person moving or to be specific crawling on the floor headed forward.
Line (Casshern Sins): The bold lines active in this image serve to help bring out other elements in the character like texture, shape, color, etc.. Naturally the line make up the structure of the drawing, but there are many different directions and boldness of lines to draw the audience's attention/eyes. Ringo (the girl) has many bold and curvy lines that work to focus her face giving a clear outlining of its structure. Also using curved  face and wavy lined hair helps to convey Ringo's feminine features. Ringo's lines serve to outline her structure while distinguishing her other visual features. 

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