Professional Project Review

Summary

The project I found is a collection of character animations, inspired by outer space, that express emotions. They were made for a google app and loop forever without any noticeable start or stop. There is an image of one of the characters but for the full post click here.

Review 

Each character icon tells a short individual story. The icon for encouragement is two characters the sun and the earth. The sun nods and pats the earth on the head which makes it smile wider. Another small story is told in the confused icon which is a spaceship looking around. When it can't find anything it shrugs its shoulders then goes back to looking around.

One element of these projects that I would apply to my own work is how the characters are constantly moving such as blinking, nodding, or bouncing which gives them a more realistic feel because people are never still. An element that I have already learned that is applied to this project is how to loop a video so it plays continuously.

Overall this project is done excellently. The creator kept a consistent theme throughout each character so they feel like they belong together. The emotions are expressed in a way that lets the audience understand and sympathize. They feel energized and real because of the constant movement. They could improve this work by making what some of the characters represent in space more obvious. This project as a whole was great because it uses principals of animation to create aesthetic, lively characters for viewers to enjoy.

"Google." MUTI. MUTI, 11 May 2017. Web. http://www.studiomuti.co.za/google-1. 17 May 2017.

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