"The First Time I Ran Away," is a wonderful, what I believe to be 2D -2.5D animation by Joel Trussel. The video starts off with a wonderfully illustrative title, addressing the name of the video in a wonderful "quirky" style of typography. The video then leads onto the scene of a forest-like nature, where what appears to be a little Native American man (Aztec?) walks his llama through the forest, and into a mountain cart, visiting an elder from what looks like his community, with wonderful shapes, swirls and almost 3 dimensional looking patterns splitting up the screen which match the soft acoustic music insanely well. The delightfully calm and mellow music video caught my attention mainly because of the style of his work. As I found that a lot of animations I tend to look at either don't match my style of art at all, or are in 3D. The soft pastel colours create a dim and dank looking atmosphere but are uplifted through the music and storyline of the animation. I took most notice of the scenery that was created in the animation, as that is an aspect I struggle with the most, and looking into creating designs for animations which could have little to no outline and are distinguished by colour is something I would like to look into.
This hilarious animation is named Carrot and Stick, simple and straight to the point about what this animation includes, was created by Joel Trussel. The animation starts off with Stick, a literal stick who appears to be sharpening his fingers when his friend Carrot walks in. It is clear straight away from something as simple as their facial expressions that carrot appears to be the care-free and idiotic one of the pair, whereas the Stick is the more uptight, and seems to be constantly angry. The story follows the stick, who wants to stand up for Carrot after he had a chunk taken out of him via the family dog, Rosie. The film is simply comedy genius, showing a vast amount of slapstick humour and although it would appear that Stick intends to save the day, the ending is very anti-climactic and ends up with Stick being bandaged up. I think this animation relates well to me storyline of my animation, simply because of the unexpected ending, and how un-heroic the Stick turned out to be. The animation techniques are so clever as well, simply because of the fact it is filmed in live action and then using something as simple as Photoshop or After Effects, the need for things such as detail or making sure the characters frames are all the same size are not needed! This reminds me a lot of a mock up version of Jackie Chan which used to be on fox kids, where it was named Jackie Chain ( a plug) who fights a long side his trusted friend Brush Lee (a toilet brush.)
