Monthly Archives: November 2013

Musings

I have learned so much this semester about Visual Aesthetics that I don’t look at anything the same anymore. Every time I see a poster, flyer, typography, etc. I always look at how they are design is put together. I … Continue reading

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Creepy Animated Robot People

This was a fairly interesting, and by interesting I mean creepy as hell, blog post topic for this week. What I gathered was there is mass murdering, serial killing robot person wreaking havoc on quiet community in an isolated tower … Continue reading

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Pica Towers – Jen

When I watched “Good News” I thought it was funny when the thing with the book was at the door jumping up and down with excitement and the door got slammed on its face.  The first half told a good … Continue reading

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Pica Towers

These videos were…interesting. They were pretty dark and depressing, but did a good job with executing surprising plot twists. I’m not sure exactly what the story line here was but I understood the violent commentary and maybe some religious undertones … Continue reading

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Pica Towers

Well, those were different. Whether that’s a good or bad thing, I have yet to decide. But ignoring the dark nature of the pieces and from a pure animation standpoint, those short films were amazing. The lack of color and … Continue reading

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Pica Towers

These short films were extremely cool! The gritty style added tension to the short films, especially The Good News.  The use of no dialogue also added an extra tension that dialogue sometimes can not convey. The animations were unconventional with … Continue reading

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Pica Towers Series

These short animated pieces were very well done with a mix of strong sound effects, sedated colors, gritty styling, and simple drawn characters.  There is no dialogue, but an effective use of light, shadows, and camera angles to create drama … Continue reading

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Pica Towers

4am is a wonderful time to start watching and critiquing anything in my mind.  The Pica Towers represent the natural wonderment of curious exploration.  Each of the main characters that we follow through the shorts has a certain power/weakness to … Continue reading

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Pica Towers ???

I am a little confused as to the 3 short videos that I watched this week. I thought that the actual animations were clever, but as far as content, I was left a bit in the dark. The characters were … Continue reading

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Videos

I like these videos. I normally like a lot of color, but I liked the darkness to this. No dialogue, but still somewhat humorous. I figured someone would die in “Pizza Sangre” which means blood pizza. I was hoping for … Continue reading

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