American and Japanese animation

Even though it was about animation i found it really interesting to see the differences between the american and japanese animation especially the differences between the disney animation and the animation used in my neighbour toronto which i do not normally like animation like this but since seeing this i would now like to watch it.




This were two of the films we watched clips from and you can see with disneys bambi that it has alot more brighter colours than the japanese film my neighbour totoro i think this is to make it more reconizable to disney as they use this style in all there animation films.
My favourite thing from the lecture was the desk lamp from pixar

It was also interesting to know that this was John Lasseters first thing created using computers when he working for pixar and that the desk lamp shows so many emotions but does not have a face.
When you look at american animation you can see that it uses more brighter colours then the japanese animation  and that the american animation is more about family and the japanese is more fantasy which the two have a whole history of using this style but that is my own opinion and people will disagree but this is what i think splits the two animations (american and japanese).

Animation

I was hoping that the lecture wouuld involve stop-motion animation but i guess the closest thing to that was the puppets and the movie that was shown at the end but i am now starting to understand the signs much better and often find my self now starting to use them to describe things which brought so much to my attention but the animation film we watched was wierd with the babys head having cotton wool coming out the eyes and mouth and the music being played was wierd also which suited the film and i had no clue what was going on in the film.

Violence in media

The stuff that got me to learn more about this was the seminar in which we got split into groups and had to design daggers for different people one for a pantomine villian, spy, cowboy and a sci-fi bandit we quickly discovered that none of these would have the same design and had to think about the character and then think about the design for the dagger. The one i liked the best was i design i had for the sci-fi bandit where most people were going for the lightsaber idea i prefered the idea of a dagger that was more from another world. it was shaped a bit like a boomerang and then we had to think about putting the daggers into a scene which for this sci-fi bandit dagger we put that it was dark and that the moon was shining and the blade of the dagger reflected from the light from the moon. We also said this is all what you would see as the owner of the dagger is a bandit.



This is what you would only see in the dark for the scene with the sci-fi bandit, the other dagger designs we had was a very unrealistic comedy looking dagger for the pantomine villian one that had lots of jewels on it and was not practical, the spy had a mini dagger in a pen as it was like a gadget just incase they needed it when they was in trouble and it had to be disguised so it did not get reconized and for the cowboy we designed a practical dagger witha wooden handle and it had to be practical. This was a good group task i felt because it was interesting to see what other people came up with for there designs and i liked my idea for the sci-fi bandit dagger that in my spare time i am going to make it.