"POP"

This is the winner for last years competition brief which is the same brief that I have based mine on. The brief was to create an animation no longer than 5 minutes which showed off the animators creativity and included the title "Annecy International Animation Film Festival". This animation is only 2:30 in length and shows off some really nice animation style. It is called 'POP' and is by an animator name "Squetch". This is a really good example of a slightly different style of animation, as it seems to use the vectorised line features of Adobe Flash rather than the paint brush tool which is more popular for a frame by frame style. This animation includes much more tweening than frame by frame drawing which gives it a really perfectly smooth appearance.



Another thing that has struck me about the animation is the narrative. It shows off the animation style and is a very unique story meaning that actually it would fit with my brief as well. it hadn't really occurred to me that the animation could take on the form of a story, as originally I have planned to just show off as many imaginary things as possible. This could be something that I really have to reconsider when designing and storyboarding.