The chosen animation
for my critique challenge is ‘For the Birds‘. It is a short animation from
Pixar Studio. In this assignment, I will critique this animation through relativism
that compare to another short animation, that is ‘Father and Daughter’ by
Michael De Wit. Between these two short animations, there are some criteria I
will compare.
The first criterion
is that the audiences should be able to differentiate the dimension between
these two short animations easily after watching. In the animation ‘For the
Birds’, the dimension that has use is 3D while ‘Father and Daughter’ has using
2D. The different between 3D and 2D is the visual effect of 3D is nearer to
reality while 2D is more rigid and there is not much emphasis to perspective.
Audiences should be
able to express their feeling according to their intensity after finish watching
for the first time. The feelings toward these two animations are different.
‘For the Birds’ animation, the audiences will feel happy and laugh loudly
because the story of this animation are funny especially at the end of the
animation where the birds become naked after they were shot to the sky. While
for ‘Father and Daughter’, audiences will feel sad and touching to the main
character. A girl is waiting for her father no matter sunny day or rainy day.
The day has pass day per day. The girl became a young woman, got married, and
in time she became old, yet within her heart there was always a deep longing
for her father. This story is very touching and will make the audiences cry.
Besides that,
audiences should get the message that the animation wanted bring to us easily
for the animation ‘For the Birds’ compare to ‘Father and Daughter’. In ‘For the
Birds’, audiences will know that we should not laugh and look down on others
because if we do, we will be looked down also by others one day. They will
laugh back to us. At that time, we will feel ashamed. So, through this short
animation, we know that laughing and looked down to others are wrong and we
should not practice it.
Not only that, there
are similarities between these two animations. Audiences should able to
remember the storyline from the beginning until end for a long time although
the concepts of storyline for these two animations are different. ‘For the
Birds’ illustrated the birds laugh and looked down to a big blue bird. They
also repel it. But at the end, the big blue bird laugh back to the birds when
seeing them naked after were shot to the sky. This animation is funny and can
make a person forget about his worries. While for another animation, ‘Father
and Daughter’, it reflect the love of a girl to her father. A girl is waiting
her father since she was a child. After day per day, the girl was growing
became a young woman, getting married, became old woman, but she still waiting
for her father. It is a touching short animation.
For non-referenced
assessment, I would like to argue with other teammate that has choose
subjectivism, emotivism and objectivism. I think subjectivism and emotivism
person is not suitable to be a judge. For me, I think our life like a
competition. We always race with other to improve ourselves. So do animation. A
professional animator should always compare their animation with other animator
animations. When compare, animators will know their weakness and strongest for
their animations. Then , they will correct their mistake. This will improve the
animator skills and they will make a better animation next time. But for a person who are
subjectivism are emotivism, they judge
the animation only by their opinion and feeling. For subjectivism person, when
he say a animation is good then that animation is good although the animation
is not good. Or maybe that animators is his friend, then he will just say the
animation is good without evaluate the animation depth. While for the emotivism
person, they will just the animation with their emotion. When they are happy,
they will say that is a good animation, but if they in bad mood, they won’t say
it’s a good animation anymore although
that is same animation. These two type person are not suitable to judge
animation because it is unfair to others although their animation is better and
more quality. And for objectivism person, they are the most unsuitable person
to judge the animation. If want they judge for other things, yes, they are
suitable but not for the category of creative field. Animation is category in
creative field. Why objectivism person is not suitable to judge a animation?
This is because they belief that certain things, especially moral truths, exist
independently of human knowledge or perception of them. An animation should not
judge by these because for me, a good animation should not bound with human
knowledge, we should think out of boxes and creative to create an animation. If
not, people will feel boring when see the animation.
In the conclusion, a
good animation should make people express their feeling naturally. A happy
animation will make people feel happy, a sad animation will make people feel
sad after watching it. So, to do that, an animator should always become a
relativism person, always compare with other and improve the weakness.
