when attending this years festival, I'm ashamed to admit i did find it hard to stay awake for some of the events, but because they were boring, or because i was not interested, rather the opposite, me and a few others attended the full festival from Monday to Friday and we stayed for the full day, but it was this that caused some of use to become tired as the days went on (and the coffees', cappuccinos weren't helpful,, i was wired sure but still tired,,,damn)
regardless, they were a few animations this year that stood out, and here are a few..
"Girls on the run"
"Josi" or "onnanoko (jp: "girls") are common themes for Japanese animations, Recently "girls" have become very active in making. However there are considerable differences between girls drawn by men and girls drawn by wen. This program focuses on the ambiguity of "girls" in contemporary Japanese indie animation"
This animation segment was a collection of 17 animations with various different themes and stories, it also demonstrated the ways the men portray girls vs how women would depict girls. the animations in question were enjoyable to watch, tho some were a little confusing to what i was suppose to be watching and what i was meant to be watching...
The two videos i enjoyed the most were both rather strange, cute and enjoyable to watch. I'm not really sure why i like thee two of them all.
this animation is a really odd and clever loop, it starts off normal enough with a girl waking up one day and sets out for (school). as shes running thought the streets it gets a little weird as she is launched into the air and lands in full anime "bad ass" style, for her to proceed with the running though the streets,,the 2nd time very little changed, but as she keeps getting launched into and on landing the would around her changed, such changes are a War Zone with Toy solders, an odd 3D city and castles. a comic book style pannles, then to a more hand drawn/ painted/ sketched 2d backgrounds...this goes one for a total of 31 times (maybe 40+ i lost count) but the 'segments i enjoy the most is at 4:48 - 5:20, as thats demonstrating a 2D character inside a 3d digital work. this part kind of (and the whole video) sparked my inspiration to look into the would of Hybrid animation, and gave me a small idea on how/what i would do for my CoP and EP project
and the 2nd animation was Chisato Standred
i love the art style and story progression shown, from what i gather from the animation take place inside the mind of a girl after she suffered from an accident. and some how in her mind she relives the a lot moments again and again,, but never the park,, always school or the accident,,, (im really confused about this animation,,really, even after watching it 10 times in a row im more confused now then when i was at the festival)
overall the animation style stands out and its nice to watch
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