Animation Genres

Martial Arts Genre


Tom and Jerry: The Karate Guard


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl2d-oiBPlw





Text Opening has a feel of the oriental font like Chinese and Japanese calligraphy where most of the end stroke of the lines are sharp. Most martial arts originated from China and Japan, and dojos use hand written calligraphy for their logos. The red colour represents fire, wild, aggressive which could related to the personality of the martial artist.


The blue background in the intro could represent gentleness or perhaps a bit weak in the character Jerry...not being able to defeat Tom with his martial arts because of his size.


Few seconds in the sound intro had a typical tune of a Chinese kung fu. The tune represents China because, it is usually played in Chinese festivals and do the Chinese Dragon Dance


Mise-en-scene: the use of the karate GI of Jerry, Japanese samurai armour for the Guardian, the master spirt, martial arts dummy, Chinese Gong, 


Scene - in a modern house. This could represent that martial arts isnt ancient, it could also mean martial arts can beat modern technology weapons like the paintball near the end of the story.




Romance Genre


Romeo X Juliet (anime)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZSoy_T-Kgw





As you can see it the first few minutes intro of the animation, you cannot see the romance genre, and the fact they mentioned Sky Continent Neo Verona shows that  it has a sense of magic to it, suggesting a floating continent (world). As the intro progress, the melody shows a sense of thrill, something bad is about to happen, It represent that this show is for mature viewers, it has a greyish background which could also represent death. As the story shows the dead woman followed by the man cursing the man in black using his surname shows that, it is a war between families, this shows the genre of adventure, action, crime, war, and drama.


After the intro, its followed up by an opening theme, the song tune is the same of "you raise me up" but in Japanese version with different lyrics. it somehow represents sadness. as you watch the animation of the opening theme, It shows 2 family crest separated means that there's going to be conflict. and the tile Romeo and Juliet gave sense of the story would be more focused about Romance. It is based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. they showed the main characters, Romeo and Juliet. After they showed Juliet, a flower petal flew to her almost shaping like a heart, which shows romance. As the animation goes on showing most of the cast, they show clips of battles which could represent the conflict between families and Romeo and Juliet almost held each others hands means, they cant be together but near the end of the opening, it showed both of them kissing


If you look at the character designs, it doesnt appeal to a younger audience, its aimed at mature people.


Settings shows that it is set on the earlier ages like the victorian times. they showed churches and some roman ruins which could represent love


It is mainly focused on the main genre of Romance because of the title Romeo and Juliet
they showed flowers wrapping Romeo and Juliet, Juliet being naked, Kissing, hugging, laying on grass...and Red colour stands out to represent blood and Heart...white flowers could represent the wedding dress :D

Sound animation "Manny Pacman VS Robot

I have chosen the sound clip "11SecClub_April_Competition

I have decided to animate it with a Boxer Boxing a Robot to match the clang sound. Manny Pacquiao, a Filipino 8 world titles holder would be my main character.

Here are some caricatures I've done for Manny Pacman. I have decided not to use it because it will take a lot of time to complete my animation

I am quite happy with this character design so I have developed it more so it would be easier for me to animate

This is my final character design of Manny. As you can see, it is very simplified, It shows he isnt a heavy weight fighter, maybe a welterweight and it is perfect for my animation

This is my final design for my robot, it is very simplified, with less details, and easy for me to animate

I have made some video references of me boxing, showing some basic punches

FRONT VIEW: I like this camera angle because, it is good to show pressure to the opponent he is fighting eg: camera, robot

SIDE VIEW: I have done this view so its easy to see the foot work and body movements, this would be best to use at the star of the fight to show "The Rush"

ROBOT SIDE VIEW: this is an exaggerated acting I did here hahaha

This is my animatic, it is just snapshot of scenes where it showed more movement

   

LINE TESTS:

Robot close up

Boxer rush attack...start of the fight

Boxer Combo attacks Front View

Scared Robot Front View...Then Exploded

FINAL OUTCOME

I have coloured in my characters to make it interesting for the audience to watch, to make my animation feel alive. It took quite a while but its worth it :D I have first animated scene by scene on photoshop so it will run smooth. After all scenes are done, I put it all together on windows movie maker to match the sound.

Hope Yall Like it XD