The film tells the story of Ryan, a famous Canadian animator, who is reduced to the streets and becomes a beggar after suffering from the blows of life and himself. He is determined to make an animated documentary about Ryan.
1 is about the world rather than a world wholly imagined by its creator.
Animation and documentary are both important ways for human beings to express their emotions, and both tend to explore the truth.
Ryan’s animated metamorphosis concretizes the artist’s life dilemma and mental state. Along with the dialogue, it shows the complete Ryan in his prime, as well as the girlfriend and producer of the two-dimensional animation that only exists in his memory. The design of the animated characters combined with the recording of the interview enhanced the presentation ability of the characters in the film, the different nodes of the timeline, the real relationship between the characters, and the fresh feeling brought by the dynamic memory. Abstract images show pain, madness, fear, kindness, shame, and other psychological and emotional images that are difficult to express. The gray and distorted space environment all reveal the inner world of Ryan to the audience.
2 Evocative Animated Documentary
Movies can engage audiences through the empathetic responses that our imaginations enable, It helps the audience understand other people’s mental states or mental experiences. For example, mental health issues that we’ve never experienced firsthand. In the animated mind documentary, the short film shows a new way of looking at the world through the following points, changing the boundaries of the content and the way we present reality.
- 1. Design of character modeling in animation
Role modeling is the animation director for the film aims to convey the important means of expression, of an animation film with real prototype characters, hero Ryan has a distinctive appearance characteristic, as well as the prime and come down in the different character and spirit, excellent design based on the character prototype and the creator of natural emotion, Around the background of the story and the trend of the plot layer upon layer deepen the character of the protagonist. The main character, Ryan, has an emaciated body with arms like two branches, a severed head under his glasses with only one eye, a nose and a mouth, and only a few nerve endings on half of his face. But these are the only features that can identify the original character. Inside his head, there is a screen flashing colorful pictures, symbolizing the main character’s thought activities. The broken shape gives the character features that are not available in reality with exaggerated techniques. When Wren felt love and warmth, the color of his head became bright, and the decadent colorful threads from boom to decline tightly eroded his brain, which is why Wren’s skull was broken. Character modeling reflects its uniqueness through visual impact.
Modeling design to the character’s fault visualization, visualization. “Record” reality more vividly. In the director’s attempt to encourage Ryan to cheer up, the director’s head lit up a ring light, the director likened himself to an “angel” to influence Ryan, but the attempt was aborted because Ryan was out of control, the director’s head of the “angel halo” also scrapped. The film also has two narrators, one is Lane once loved, once the producer. Ryan’s wife, pictured with him in the past, is trim, good-looking, and smiling. Thick yellow and pink lines outline the body and the facial texture fades in and out. The producer is also reduced to pencil sketching lines. In my opinion, purified character modeling has two functions. One is to enrich the expression techniques of the film, and two-dimensional character shaping makes the film more recognizable. The other two narrators have all left Wren. As a person who tells memories and lives in the memory of Wren in the past, the lines are weak and lack support. These two images have collapsed in Wren’s collapsing life. There’s real emotion and genuine sympathy for Ryan’s plight.
- 2. Action characteristics of characters in animation
Ryan’s mind is more broken than his body. Wren’s tone and expression are full of decadent, helpless, empty, and sad. Under the heavy blow of life and career, Wren completely refused to communicate with the outside world. When communicating with the director, his eyes are timid, and when he is out of control and angry, his head protrudes many spikes, the whole person is dangerous and full of aggression. The realistic three-dimensional texture makes the extreme Raine more fierce. In addition to the main character, there are several passers-by in the scene, with broken alien shapes, exaggerated walking movements, and grumpy temperaments. Such movement design brings people intense emotional reactions, making the film full of a sense of rhythm and expressiveness. Make the image more appealing, showing that all kinds of people are struggling in the environment. Make the whole atmosphere of the film tend to be consistent.
- 3. Use of color
The overall tone of the film is grey, reflecting the solemn appeal and the heavy atmosphere of the interview dialogue. The monochromatic color of black and white in memory represents the memory, while the expression form of black and white can better express the passing time and fading past, which is in line with the style of animation documentaries. In the film, the former lover is drawn by colored lines, and the strong contrast between the gray tone and the black, white, and gray tones constitutes the narrative tension and conflict. The negative meaning of red symbolizes aggression, vanity, recklessness, willfulness, rudeness, etc. When Ryan was angry, he used a red sharp thorn to indicate his irrationality controlled by emotions.