Professional Review: The Maker

The Project:

The Maker was a professionally made project by Zealous Creative in order to boost awareness for their own animation studio as well as to show off a fellow artists's creations, including the aforementioned Maker of the tale and the composer of the animation. The summary is that The Maker must race against the clock (Actually an hourglass) to make a very important, beautiful creation before it runs. This project obviously took them several months, maybe even years to complete as the animators had to create the set as well as a camera that would give the animation proper justice.

The Maker

The Stopmotion used in the film is beautiful, fluid, and realistic to the point I believed that it had to be computer animated. Accompanied by the actual animation was a behind the scenes video detailing some of the aspects needed to bring the Maker to its fullest potential. It is crafted delicately and I couldn't find a place where the frames felt choppy or unnecessary. One element I could apply from this animation is that I can use the amount of detail in my own animations in order to give them more life and beauty than I could before, while an element I do know that is inside this animation is that the camera had to capture every movement in every frame in order to create the illusion of movement for the animation, like in the Stop-motion project given to us at the beginning of the semester.

Based on my observations, the director and animator did beautifully on creating a life-like, beautiful little world with characters with personality even though neither speak. This work could improve on, however, its story telling abilities, as I had to watch it a few times before I finally got what the story was in the animation.

Conclusions

I believe that this is one of the pinnacles that could be reached with stop-motion animation, with an environment that provokes thought with characters that could move in and out of their world fluidly so that it doesn't disrupt the backgrounds, or the characters. I hope to one day aspire to goals like these and create realistic moving characters inside an engaging environment. I love this animation to bits and hope that I could be able to do this well at an animation.