Blog 8b: Hero/Villain Critique

Megan Scalf's hero and villain's were named The Good and The Ugly. There was a contrast in the hue between the two characters.  The Good consisted of brighter hues on his outfit such as the orange shirt and as well as the background of the photo which is light blue.  The hues on the character The Ugly consisted of darker blues and shades of gray and black. The photos also used a form of subtext, if you will, by the use of the scruff/beard on The Ugly.  During the presentation the scruff on the character was supposed to represent that hes dirty, not well kept, and the antagonist. I explain this using the term subtext because costume (facial hair in this case) is a form of subtext in visuals.  It represents a characteristic that may otherwise not show in the text. 

To see Megan Scalf's Hero/Villain drawings and animation click here.

Vic Sherrick's heros are a team similar to the idea of Batman and Robin.  The heros are the characters Wiz and Oz. Both of the colors on the characters are primary colors and again bright hues like Megans to appeal to the younger audience.  In his animation he manipulated the movements by utilizing weight in the part of the animation at about 19 seconds, where Wiz's red top hat hits the ground and squash and stretches back to its original form. He also utilized text in his animation.  They used words like "Poof!" to textually represent the sound effects in the animation.

To see Vic Sherrick's Hero Duo drawing and animation click here.

Joshua Strizak's villain posted on his blog is called the Firebomb.  The drawing of his character consisted of darker and lighter saturations of the same hue of blue.  He used this shading to show shadow from the character's body onto other parts of the character's body (for example left side of character's head.)   I found the color choices of a blue body vs. the fire coming from his body (red and orange) to be interesting.  Villians with the power of fire seem to usually be red rather than blue but i definitely did not think this took away from his character at all.  If anything the contrast in colors helped represent that his character is maybe cold hearted and the fire being bright reds and orange contrasted with the blue helps the fire to stand out in the photo.  This immediately draws attention to the fire and his name Firebomb.   In his animation he used parallel movement lines (arms and legs strait and 'moving in the wind') that indicated that his character was flying forwards. I do wish he used more lines when the character was flying to add to the effect but over all thought it was a good animation and character drawing.

To see Joshua Strizak's character and animation click here.