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InstructionsFor this assignment, you will review an animated film or movie of your choice. It can be a stop motion, 2D, or a 3D animated film. Maybe there is an animation that you enjoyed as a child that you would like to revisit with a critical eye. After watching the animation, please answer the following questions in complete sentences, using the Unit VIII Animation Review Worksheet.Include the animation title, year produced, and medium (stop motion, hand drawn, 3D, etc).Provide your star rating out of five stars with five stars being the highest and one star being the lowest.What genre or type of animation is it? Does it have a message?What is the animation’s plot? Does the plot make sense? Is it easy to follow or believable?Who are the main characters, and what are they like? Are the characters well written?How is the quality of the animation? Are there special effects? If so what are they like? Are there beautiful scenes? Are there moments where scenes are animated in an interesting way?Did you enjoy the animation? Why, or why not? Where were its good and bad points?What scene or part of the animation did you particularly enjoy or remember? Why was it good or memorable?Who would you recommend this animation to? Why?To what other animations you can compare this?Your response must be at least two pages in length. APA Style will not be required for this assignment.
———————————————————————–Upload an image of an example of digital art that you have experienced. If you have not experienced digital art, do a Web search for Behance. This is a website where many artists upload and share their digital artwork. How do the digital techniques used in the work compare to traditional art mediums? What are its strengths and weaknesses?Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
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Unit VIII Animation Review Worksheet
1. Animation Title, year produced, and medium (stop motion, hand drawn, 3D etc):
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2. Your star rating out of five stars with five stars being the highest and one star being the lowest.
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3. What genre or type of animation is it? Does it have a message?
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4. What is the animation’s plot? Does the plot make sense? Is it easy to follow or believable?
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5. Who are the main characters and what are they like? Are the characters well written?
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6. How is the quality of the animation? Are there special effects? If so what are they like? Are there
beautiful scenes? Are there moments where scenes are animated in an interesting way?
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7. Did you enjoy the animation? Why, or why not? Where were its good and bad points?
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8. What scene or part of the animation did you particularly enjoy or remember? Why was it good or
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9. To whom would you recommend this animation? Why?
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10. To what other animations can compare this?
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UNIT VIII STUDY GUIDE
Digital Art and Animation
Course Learning Outcomes for Unit VIII
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
1. Discuss two-dimensional artwork.
1.1 Explain the strengths and weaknesses of an animation.
3. Examine two-dimensional works of art using the application of media, techniques, and processes.
3.1 Characterize the types of digital art and animations.
Course/Unit
Learning Outcomes
1.1
3.1
Learning Activity
Unit Lesson
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Video: Innovative Digital Design (Segment 1)
Video: Digital Challenges of Digital Wallpaper (Segment 2)
Video: Design Meets Approval (Segment 3)
Video: How Hollywood Does It—Film History & Techniques of Animation
Unit VIII Scholarly Activity
Unit Lesson
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Video: Innovative Digital Design (Segment 1)
Video: Digital Challenges of Digital Wallpaper (Segment 2)
Video: Design Meets Approval (Segment 3)
Video: How Hollywood Does It—Film History & Techniques of Animation
Unit VIII Scholarly Activity
Required Unit Resources
Chapter 22: From Modern to Postmodern
Chapter 23: Contemporary Art around the World
In order to access the following resources, click the links below.
ClickView/VEA (Producer). (2006). Designers under pressure: Digital design (Segment 1 of 7) [Video file].
Retrieved from https://fod-infobasecom.libraryresources.columbiasouthern.edu/p_ViewVideo.aspx?xtid=40214&loid=65580
The transcript for this video can be found by clicking on “Transcript” in the gray bar at the top of the video in
the Films on Demand database.
ClickView/VEA (Producer). (2006). Designers under pressure: Digital design (Segment 2 of 7) [Video file].
Retrieved from
https://libraryresources.columbiasouthern.edu/login?auth=CAS&url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPl
aylists.aspx?wID=273866&xtid=40214&loid=65581
The transcript for this video can be found by clicking on “Transcript” in the gray bar at the top of the video in
the Films on Demand database.
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ClickView/VEA (Producer). (2006). Designers under pressure: Digital design (Segment
3 of 7)GUIDE
[Video file].
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https://libraryresources.columbiasouthern.edu/login?auth=CAS&url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPl
aylists.aspx?wID=273866&xtid=40214&loid=65582
The transcript for this video can be found by clicking on “Transcript” in the gray bar at the top of the video in
the Films on Demand database.
This video gives an overview of the history of animation. It is great to be reminded of how animation began
and see how it has evolved through the years. Watching the video along with reading your textbook will help
you complete this unit’s assignment, an animated film review.
TMW Media Group (Producer). (2013). How Hollywood does it – film history & techniques of animation [Video
file]. Retrieved from
https://libraryresources.columbiasouthern.edu/login?auth=CAS&url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPl
aylists.aspx?wID=273866&xtid=93752
The transcript for this video can be found by clicking on “Transcript” in the gray bar at the top of the video in
the Films on Demand database.
Unit Lesson
For this unit, we cover digital art and animation. In your unit resources, there are a couple of videos to watch
to supplement your textbook reading. The first video (in three segments) shows the work of an artist who
creates digital wallpaper. You can see the pressure the artist is under by using digital instead of a traditional
medium. Often, digital artwork can cost more to produce, and there is a great deal of stress involved when it
comes to installing digital artwork because it is hard to predict if a piece of technology will fail and the work will
not display alltogether. The second video gives an overview of the history of animation. It is great to be
reminded of how animation began and see how it has evolved through the years. Watching the video along
with reading your textbook will help you complete this unit’s assignment, an animated film review. In this unit
lesson, we will go through the review process using the film, The Cunning Little Vixen found in the CSU
Online library. Note that you are not required to watch this video, we are just using it as an example. (The
transcript for this video can be found by clicking on “Transcript” in the gray bar at the top of the video in the
Films on Demand database.)
Animated Film Review Example
Animation Title, year produced, and medium (stop motion, hand drawn, 3D etc): The Cunning Little
Vixen is a hand-drawn animation produced in 2003.
Your star rating out of five stars. Five stars being the highest and 1 star being the lowest. The
animation is given four stars. There could have been better transitions between scenes and explanation
to what is going on, so that is why it is given four stars.
What genre or type of animation is it? Does it have a message? This is a traditional, twodimensional, hand-drawn animation that incorporates opera. Its overall message seems to be that nature
is a cycle.
What is the animation’s plot? Does the plot make sense? Is it easy to follow or believable? The
vixen is in the woods with her mom when a forester grabs her and takes her to his home. For the first
three months, she is free to roam around the yard, but when she tries to escape, the forester ties her up
in the back yard. She gets free and attacks and kills several hens. The wife of the forester gets very
upset and calls the vixen a murderer. The vixen is then able to escape back into the woods. It is winter
and cold. She then comes across a rich badger’s home. The badger threatens to have her arrested. The
vixen then sprays her perfume on to the badger, which forces him to leave. The vixen then goes into
town and stakes out a pub. A drunk man exits the pub and walks home in the dark. He ends up in the
woods on an iced over river. He believes the vixen is a woman he used to like, and he follows her further
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into the woods. The forester then returns to the woods with a shotgun to get
thex vixen
back.
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The animation then cuts to a moonlight scene where the vixen meets another fox that she likes. The fox
and vixen hit it off, and he brings her dinner. They fail in love. The vixen gets pregnant. They decide to
find a bird who is a priest, and they get married. Many dancing foxes appear to celebrate their wedding.
The next scene happens at night. The vixen kills a rabbit. A hunter grabs the rabbit and tries to use it as
bait to get the vixen. The forester then appears, and the hunter explains that the vixen killed the rabbit.
The forester takes the rabbit and decides to bait the vixen with the rabbit and sets up a trap. In the next
scene, all the vixen’s children appear dancing around the dead hare and trap. They grab the hare and
explain this trap is too easy because they are cunning foxes. Back in their den, the vixen and the fox sing
about all their children and how many they should have. Her husband declares they should have many
more since she is still a fine-looking vixen. They decide they will wait until next spring for more children.
The hunter reappears in the forest, drunk. The vixen leaves her den to see who it is. The hunter tries to
shoot the vixen for her fur. The vixen then attacks his nose and steals his bag of chickens. The hunter
then shoots and kills her.
Some years later, the forester comes to the place where the vixen died. The forester smells the flowers
with the vixen’s scent. It reminds the forester of his wife and when they first were dating. The forester
admires the woods’ beauty in the evening light. The forester spots one of the vixen’s cubs, and a frog
sings to the forester about his grandfather. The audience and the forester are reminded about the circle
of life.
The plot is easy to follow and makes sense for the most part. It does jump a bit between scenes, so that
can make it difficult to follow. Since the animation is all hand-drawn and not extremely realistic, that
leaves room for artistic liberties. For example, some of the insects have round red noses, which is not
what is seen in real life but makes sense in the animation. It did seem out of character at the end though
when the frog started talking to the forester. Throughout the animation before that, the animals could not
talk to the humans. The vixen was not able to talk to the forester, so it makes one wonder, what makes
the frog special?
Who are the main characters, and what are they like? Are the characters well written? The vixen is
a young fox that was taken away from her mom at a young age by a forester. The sequence at 12:00
helps you empathize with the character and understand what she is going through. You get to see the
vixen’s life and death through the animation. The forester is the other main character. You can see
throughout the animation that he enjoys nature and the woods near his home.
How is the quality of the animation? Are there special effects? If so, what are they like? Are there
beautiful scenes? Are there moments where scenes are animated in an interesting way? The
animation is hand drawn, so the animation is not as smooth, and the characters jump in spots unlike the
3D animation we see today. Also, the animation does not have special effects.
The scene at 2:10 with the bumble bees was particularly beautiful. The bees’ flight patterns seemed to
follow the music. This also was interesting to watch because the bees were almost like music notes
dancing across the screen.
Did you enjoy the animation? Why, or why not? Where were its good and bad points? Overall, the
animation was enjoyable. It was sad to see the vixen die, but that is to be expected with an animation
based on an opera. The good points were the integration of the opera singing with the animation. Since it
was based on an opera though, the animation seemed choppy since it was cutting from scene to scene.
This is probably different than what is depicted on stage since there are usually breaks and set changes
in live operas. Also, in live opera, more emphasis is placed on the singing. That does not necessarily
happen in the animation, because there is so much more visual detail with all the scenes and other
animals in the animation.
What scene or part of the animation did you particularly enjoy or remember? Why was it good or
memorable? In the badger’s home, the mice in the teacups were memorable. It was a funny and
enjoyable moment, since the mice were singing in support of the vixen which was unexpected. Also, it
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was more memorable because the mice were isolated and in a group of three,
it was easy
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Who would you recommend this animation to? Why? This animation would be recommended to any
opera lover or someone who wants to get a taste of the opera without leaving their own home. Also,
those who like two-dimensional hand-drawn animation might enjoy watching the film because the use of
different textures and media in one film is interesting, and having the characters sing opera rather than
speak is an interesting integration of two art forms.
Are there other animations you can compare this to? The figures are solid colors and the
background is a softer medium, maybe scanned watercolor or oil pastel. This can be jarring since the
figures do not look like they belong in the scene. The characters randomly start singing, but people are
conditioned to see this, since characters randomly break into song in Disney animations as well. This
might not be suitable for kids with the swearing and references to alcohol. Kids might also have difficulty
following the storyline, since the dialogue is in song and not necessarily in complete sentences. Complex
words are also used.
References
BBC (Producer). (2003). The cunning little vixen [Video]. Retrieved from https://fod-infobasecom.libraryresources.columbiasouthern.edu/p_ViewVideo.aspx?xtid=138594&tScript=0
Getlein, M. (2020). Living with art (12th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.
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