Analyze This: "Getting Ready" on Myscene
I swore that I would never go to the Barbie site again after that day in class, but due to some problems I had on the Todd Gallina site, and the overall lack of content or a complete story at Teddy and Anna, I decided (reluctantly) to give myscene.com another look. What I found was that my original suspicions about the site were indeed well founded. While designs and backgrounds were extremely detailed, extremely detailed moving parts were scarcely to be found. The artist’s use of layers and motion of mainly larger single polygon fields and the more detailed faces lent a lot of their mobility to the overall telling of stories on myscene.com. Still, it is incredibly detailed, and involves hundreds of tweens per movie, probably taking several days or even weeks to complete an entire animation. Unless they are slipping in some action scripting I haven’t figured out yet.
In the “Getting Ready” storyline, Barbie and a friend stop by their friend Belinda’s house for a surprise visit because she sounds stressed, and find that her cat has had kittens. After a few jokes, and some simple motions by the cats and the friends (with near constant background motion by the cats), we learn that they all have a big group date that night, so how will they get ready for it? By indulging themselves with lip-gloss, designer duds and scented soaps of course! After two shots (one long and one close up) of the girls in the mirror, we cut to a long shot of Barbie in the tub, with very little movement of the environment, and then cut to a quick close-up and a fade to the boys. They all move their heads and eyes slightly, and look at the girls, who assume a fashion magazine like spread across the entire screen, with each girl perfectly in focus and sporting a pose. Then to a cut of one of the boys faces, and an over the shoulder shot, and then to a group face shot of the girls looking in surprise at… a long shot of a horse and buggy! The boys, always considerate when it comes to going on dates, have spent the immense amount of money to rent a horse and buggy (with no driver, I suppose the extra character was seen as being unnecessary) and get the permits to drive him down city streets themselves. A flash of lines a silhouette and Barbie is in a torso shot of her boyfriend and her standing next to the horse embracing. Back to a headshot of the friends, and then cut to the silhouette of the horse and buggy (the people are conveniently not seen) in a two frame zoom out movie, shrinking into the horizon line.
In the next scene, the girls and guys team up for a noble cause, namely finding all the kittens good homes, which they do, and head on home for the evening after deciding to keep the kitten who got into Barbie’s pink hair dye. This is a complex scene, involving many background changes, and some interesting transitions, including three wipes and a focus in/ focus out cut. I should try some of these for my upcoming “Solomon Grundy” animation, to add some spice to the otherwise rather plain simplicity of it.
That’s it for this week! Tune in next week for an update on the progress of “Solomon Grundy”!
In the “Getting Ready” storyline, Barbie and a friend stop by their friend Belinda’s house for a surprise visit because she sounds stressed, and find that her cat has had kittens. After a few jokes, and some simple motions by the cats and the friends (with near constant background motion by the cats), we learn that they all have a big group date that night, so how will they get ready for it? By indulging themselves with lip-gloss, designer duds and scented soaps of course! After two shots (one long and one close up) of the girls in the mirror, we cut to a long shot of Barbie in the tub, with very little movement of the environment, and then cut to a quick close-up and a fade to the boys. They all move their heads and eyes slightly, and look at the girls, who assume a fashion magazine like spread across the entire screen, with each girl perfectly in focus and sporting a pose. Then to a cut of one of the boys faces, and an over the shoulder shot, and then to a group face shot of the girls looking in surprise at… a long shot of a horse and buggy! The boys, always considerate when it comes to going on dates, have spent the immense amount of money to rent a horse and buggy (with no driver, I suppose the extra character was seen as being unnecessary) and get the permits to drive him down city streets themselves. A flash of lines a silhouette and Barbie is in a torso shot of her boyfriend and her standing next to the horse embracing. Back to a headshot of the friends, and then cut to the silhouette of the horse and buggy (the people are conveniently not seen) in a two frame zoom out movie, shrinking into the horizon line.
In the next scene, the girls and guys team up for a noble cause, namely finding all the kittens good homes, which they do, and head on home for the evening after deciding to keep the kitten who got into Barbie’s pink hair dye. This is a complex scene, involving many background changes, and some interesting transitions, including three wipes and a focus in/ focus out cut. I should try some of these for my upcoming “Solomon Grundy” animation, to add some spice to the otherwise rather plain simplicity of it.
That’s it for this week! Tune in next week for an update on the progress of “Solomon Grundy”!
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