After dozens of hours of clicking, resizing, saving,
formatting, undoing, redoing, waiting for Final Cut to chug through the
hundreds of imported images, – because,
gosh darn it, I just have to change this one, teeny-tiny detail – critique was
a very personal experience. It felt like presenting my firstborn child to the world. Blessedly, no one was very vicious in their
appraisal of my animation. They were
actually quite generous, and I agreed with the majority of suggestions offered
to improve upon the piece. The most
noteworthy suggestion (and, coincidentally, the one that, in hindsight, I
should have realized on my own), was to incorporate the red of the henna design
into aspects of the other figures: the spots of the giraffe, for example. The
effect would be simple, but unifying, adding a cohesion and ornament to the
otherwise sparse blue forms. I think it would add a kind of Beast-Boy
similitude (just as all of his different animal forms are consistent shades of
green). Adding more motion, perhaps a snaking frame, around the henna palm
would also help to break the static image and make the first thirty seconds of
the animation more dynamic and less frozen.
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