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Rock It For Me - Clip from Caravan Palace on Vimeo.

This animation is my favorite one from these five motion graphics. It is a three minutes long 2.5D animation. The story is really funny, start with a fast happy song. It looks like a theme park and there is a band that is performing. Suddenly UFO comes out and destroys the world. People are feeling panic and afraid, they are keeping running to escape from the invader. In the factory, the scientists plan to make a robot to fight back the invader. But during the processing, a guy lets a saxophone pass the checking system and it goes into the robot's head. That makes the robot become different from the original design by the scientists. It becomes a funny dancing robot! The robot keep dancing and then fight the invader, the movements are really funny. At the end, he climbs to the top of Rafael tower and turning his head around with his eye laser just like a club light ball. It is not just a story; it is also a music video for me because I love to keep listening the music again and again.

The color is hard to say, it is Black & White style but with little bit blue tone in the black and little bit yellow tone in the white. With these color and tones, the orange color stands out very well. If watch carefully, I can still figure out the edge of the screen is darker. I believe that it uses a feather effect. It uses a lot of shapes, but still can figure out the main shapes are square, ball, circle, cylinder and triangle. For example, the robot uses a few cylinders for the body and balls for the joints. The main animated figures are either 2D character or 3D character, but the environment looks like pencil drawing. The animated part and the still part are different feelings but when it combines together with the overall color and tones, it looks balanced and nice.

It is hard to tell the graphic style as well. It has 3D character and 2D character, and it also has life tracing element and pencil drawing environment. For the animation style is quite relaxed, rapidly and happily. The depth of field are great, the scene transforms are good as well. For example, the robot become alive, and the door shadow on his body telling the door is opening, then next scene the robot is outside the factory, and the factory door is already open. It leads us to the next scene without any uncomfortable. The movement is match with the music. My favorite part is that the robot looks normal, but suddenly turns to a crazy mode. The music has 1 sec rapidly repeat during he turning to dancing robot, and the movement of the robot is slightly rapidly shaking. After this great transform movement, he becomes a funny dancing robot. Overall rhythm is fast. At the beginning and the end, the pace is slow. During the story part is quite fast.

Last but not least, the music is awesome. I love it and kind of addicted to it.

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SHIFT v2 from mirari on Vimeo.

This is a 3D animation using some Beijing opera elements. The models are really smooth and detail. The visual and technical are awesome.

Then main color is white and red, little bit black. It looks like underwater at the beginning because of the highlight and shadows on the models. It changes the focus point from the front to the back leads audience sight, nice depth of field in this video as well. The color tone is quite cold because the background is dark blue and the models are dark red and white. I quite like the smooth feeling of the models. It looks like some kind of iron or marble. For the balance, it always has 2 or 3 layers in the animation, so it looks more convincing.

The style should be Chinese Opera combined with modern 3D style. It uses focus point to show some movement, and then it transform the an opera face. The other part are showing around the face, then turn around to another side, the face fly out then create a new Beijing opera people. The movements and transforms are smooth and quick. The rhythm is quick during transform and slow down during display the object.