Blog 8B

Lena Al-Hashemi and Joe Battaglia did not have their animation projects posted at the time I was doing my blog critique. I emailed you on March 1st.

Adrian Andrade  and James Watson’s animations are most noticed by their use of COLOR. Adrian’s superhero, Eric Williams, used two different primary HUES, blue and yellow. These colors aren’t exactly split complementary but when they are used together it gives the character an energetic feel. It also SUBCONSCIOUSLY makes the character seem enthusiastic, alert, and authoritative.

James Watson’s villain is colored with two different tints of purple. The villain’s looting bag is a SATURATED purple and the villain’s hat has an average purple tint. The diamond he is holding is blue, roughly the same color as the superhero. The purple on the villain is analogous to the super hero’s blue outfit which makes the villain seem less intimidating and less destructive. However, he is clearly noted as a bad guy because the purple looting bag is complementary to the yellow on the super hero’s cape. This subconsciously shows that super hero and the villain CONTRAST each other.

Another part of the color scheme I found interesting was how the diamond was colored blue, similar to the super hero’s suit. This tells the viewer that the diamond was stolen and belongs to the good guys. The purple on the villain delivers a different mood than the blue of the superhero but also complements from the super hero’s yellow cloak showing the difference of the two characters. The blue diamond is the variable in the drawing that subconsciously tells the viewer’s each character’s motivations. The bad guy stole from the good guys and the super hero must retrieve it.