1. Sam Lount
Animation review
I looked at an Alan Becker animation called animator vs. animation 2. In this
one of his animations starts to destroy his computer and he is trying to stop it.
He uses some kind of anti-virus software to stop it. I liked the fact that he has
made the character break his scroll bars. I don’t like the bit where he talks to
programme 021for help, this distracted me from the actual video and wasn’t a
very funny thing. The video was quite short and not as much happened as in
other creations of his. This was for entertainment and funny, it was quite
effective because in the comments a lot of people were saying how funny it
was. I like how he drags the guns out and uses them to shoot him because it
lets me know how much more you can do with animation. I don’t really like his
laser eyes because they seem a little over powered and not very imaginative. I
think the pure aim of this is for entertainment, but it also shows that you can
put print screens into flash to make something a little quirky. The only real
improvements I could think he could do are to make some of the things on his
home screen more imaginative. All of his animations are very smooth and it fits
for the type of video but the stick man isn’t perfect, his body is misshapen and
head not circle. The explosions in the animation look amazing because the
designer has faded the colours together like on the left hand side of the print
screen. The blood or fire on the animation isn’t as good as the explosions
showing he has spent less effort on them. I think to make the video better he
could take a little longer perfecting the laser beams because when they hit
things the damage looks scribbled and doesn’t fit with the details in the
explosions and the smoke.

2. Sam Lount
Again I looked at another Alan Becker production called animator vs.
animation 3 and in this one the stick figure is a slave that escapes and then
destroys word documents and a game of solitaire. In the solitaire the creator is
having a game when the two characters come in and start burning and
throwing all of the cards around then start duplicating cards. I like the fact the
he makes the chosen one’s enemy that shows he is quite intelligent because I
didn’t really think about doing that. I don’t like how he repeats the use of the
Mozilla Firefox because it doesn’t show he has a very wide imagination and he
can’t think of new ideas to put into his videos. Instead of using Mozilla he could
make some kind of Google chrome spinning thing. Again this was is for
entertainment and supposed to be funny and I think it is good overall. It also
shows you some things you may not already know how to do. The aim is the
same as his first; it is again just for entertainment. It is too similar to his first
and I think to improve it he could add different things on his home page and
maybe add some different apps and shortcuts. His videos are very smooth and
I don’t ever see any jolts or jitters. Again he makes the stickmen a bit
misshapen and not to perfection. The explosions are not as good in this video
because they look more 2D with less shading. The colours you will find are just
the norm of a home page with some shortcuts and icons, with a plain windows
rolling hills background. I feel that he has really worked on the lasers in this
animation and you can tell that they look better and of a higher quality. I
enjoyed the part where the dark lord was trapped in the game minesweeper
and had to play to escape. Another problem that I have with his video is that
the creator is using windows in performance mode instead of in visual mode.
This means that the windows.exe doesn’t look as aesthetically pleasing.

3. Sam Lount