Entertaining. The visuals and style is very 1930s, but the narration and the anti-communism stuff felt very 1950s to me. Not that it can't have aspects from multiple eras, but it felt a little offputting(?) to me that it seemed to want to be specifically 1930s, yet felt more like the 50s. Not that that is really a problem, just felt a little off to me. I don't know if that's a real criticism, but I liked it besides that.
The Future is Robotic!
So for this animation jam I had to convert a real life robot into a 1930s style. I picked the Boston Dynamics Spot Mini. It's a cute little block dog, what's not to love? I tried to emulate some of the things I observed in 1930s cartoons, like the lack of real shading. Me working in colour made this stick out a bit more, but hot dog, did it make everything quicker. I also kind of kept some of the roughness to show off this bygone era of animation. I would, as usual add more things with time and probably re-record some lines, but I think it came out okay.
MUSIC CREDITS
Musical Snapshots
Composed by Unknown
Performed by the Columbia Orchestra
The Entertainer
Composed by Scott Joplin
Performed by Scott Joplin
The Star Spangled Banner- Recorder Cover
Composed by John Stafford Smith
Lyrics by Francis Scot Key
Performed by Rec0rder Mast3r
State Anthem of the Soviet Union
Composed by Alexander Alexandrov
Performed by The Red Choir
Film Noise Overlay
courtesy of Beachside B-Roll
(http://www.beachfrontbroll.com/2013/10/FilmNoise.html)
KloudKat responds:
Yeah I know exactly what you mean about that. I looked up and there were smaller red scares around the time period, but yeah it doesn't really have the same impact. I was gonna make other, more time appropriate jokes, like more Great Depression and there was a joke about the Weimar republic and alluding to everyone not realising WW2 was just around the corner, but I had to cut for time. I think I got a little too attached to the Communist jokes in this one.
Pretty nice animation and you got the style pretty nicely, although it felt more 40's-50's than 30's, because of the whole patriotic cold war thing. The voice acting was good and I like the humor of the awkward cuts, the excessive patriotism and the narrator mumbling things under his breath, as well as the employees not being very happy. That text at the beginning could have been there a bit longer.
KloudKat responds:
Thank you! I was wondering about the text.I can do a re-upload and draw that out a bit. I was unsure how long to keep it there.
Yeah that dissonance in the time period and the commie jokes bugged me during production, but I wasn't able to fit in the more time period appropriate jokes, sadly and I guess the ones like that just stuck out all the more. There first red scare was in 1919-1920 and was sort of there a little during the 30s so I figured it would still work out, but bloody 1950s Red Scare had to steal the spotlight from the smaller ones before it!
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