A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

One thing that I really love about animation is the fact that you don't even have to include words to make a story. Some of my favorite animations are those where words are not included. It forces you as a viewer to really focus and watch what's going on and try to infer what's going on with just the information that the artist is giving you. For example, one of my favorite shorts is from last year called Feast:

It's a sweet love story told through a dog's life. In this short, only a total of two words were said: "Hey" and "Wait". Other than that, communication was told through barks and the visualization of the story. This short was created for young children and it just goes to show that not all good films need words for people to understand.

HSG (Hayop Sa Ganda)

One part of motion graphics and animation that interests me the most is title sequences.  In this piece by Praveen Fernandes, I am going to focus on the first nine to ten seconds of the video, where there is a great title.  The editor did a great job syncing up appropriate audio with his animation in order to give it an extra bit of punch.  With the animation itself, I really like how many things there are going on at once.  To start off, there is a camera movement to the right while the the Title itself also spins in to the right at a slightly faster pace.  While all of this is going on, there is an elaborate web of blue laser-like lines that is being navigated in an opposite direction.  All of this along with the complementing audio gives a very professional look to this title sequence.