Critique Challange

  

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.