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NYT - Circle Squared from HunterGatherer on Vimeo.


This is a 3D stop motion graphic which I like to talk about. The 3D animals are built in square but they telling a circle life story. It is just like the Rock Scissor Paper game. The story tells us that the end of one story might be a new begins of another one.

The color in the video is good, simple colors but not too shiny. The background color is white and little bit black feather at the edge, which is a very safe color and brings the depth of field to the audience. At the beginning of this video and during the first one minute, the tone is slightly cold because of the colors being using in the video are mostly cold colors such as green, purple, blue and grew. After that, the tone turns to very warm to showing the sunset then turns very cold to showing the midnight. It is really clever to just using tone changes to tell audience that is pass one day or even many days. The shape in this video as I mentioned before is mainly using squares, it is a good shape to easily show the characters colors, shades and shadows. The simple shape like squares can help audiences put more attention to the story not just the characters. For the balance in this video, mostly character sits on 1/3 of the page, which is following the Rule of Thirds gets trotted out.

The style of the animation is 3d stop motion graphic base on wooden square characters. There are a lot of simple movement are using in this animation such as zoom in to the character, jumping forwards and walk/swim left to right, etc. Mostly rhythm in the video is slow, but at the climax part goes a lot quicker for representing the tense feeling to the audience. Overall the animation is slow rhythm at the beginning and goes quicker, then goes slow again at the end.