Blog 8B

 

My Hero

    

My Partner's Villain

Critques:

Nick Moore:

In the villain created by Nick Moore, as well as the hero created by his partner, the major difference between the two pictures is the Color. The hero is done with green and orange, including a couple of different hues of green. The brighter colors make the hero look nice, kind, and good. The villain is a stark difference in color from the hero. The villain is basically all black, with only a whitish-gray face. The fact that the villain is all black makes it look mysterious, creepy, and evil, which is exactly how a villain should look. The major differences between the colors in the characters helps to show the differences in the actual people. You can clearly tell who is good, and who is bad just by looking at them, and that is a big part of what color can do in an animation. When it comes to Contrast and Affinity, the hero and villain are very different in how the approach this concept. The hero uses affinity with the all green outfit, while the villain uses contrast with the dark outfit and white face. The affinity in the hero makes it look good, simple, and kind. The contrast in the villain makes the face stick out, and makes it just creepy, strange, and evil looking. For the topic of Active and Didactic, both the hero and villain use the didactic approach. Neither of the pictures tell you exactly who is the hero, and who is the villain. You have to come to your own conclusion by looking at the colors, backgrounds, stance, and body shapes of both characters.

Michael Garret:

For Michael Garret’s hero and villain, the main difference between the two of them is color. The hero really only has two colors, red and white, with a little bit of yellow. This absence of color, and brightness of the character help to make it appear good. The red gloves, masks, boots, and emblem gives the hero the appearance of strength. The red is the first thing that your eyes look at, and so you focus on his fist and feet, which are probably what he uses to fight off crime, which is why the little blocks of red work for the hero. For the villain, it is basically cloaked in black, from the hood to his feet. The black cloak makes it appear evil, mysterious, and scary, which is exactly how a villain should come off. The hero uses contrast and affinity, by having affinity in the main part of his costume by having it be all white. The affinity comes from the little blocks of red that show up on the mask, boots, and hands. This use of contrast and affinity help bring the idea of the hero to life. The villain uses the concept of tension and release to help show his villain personality. The tension comes the villain’s stance which is very wide. strong, powerful, and serious. The release comes from the weapon he is holding, which has little lines coming off of it to show movement, and the fact that it is lighting up, and releasing some kind of light or magic.

Brandon Reid:

The topic that I am going to look at for Brandon’s hero and villain is the topic of lighting. In the picture of the villain, there is a large amount of shadows, and not a lot of lighting on him. These shadows help to give the villain a dark edge that makes it appear spooky, and evil. The hero is the exact opposite of the villain. The hero basically has a glow around him. The yellowish and bright glow that is around the entire hero shows the goodness, and strength about him. The lighting of the hero helps to give the sense that he is all about good, helping, and fighting crime. On the topic of contrast and affinity, the villain uses affinity of color to appear mysterious, scary, and erie. The use of the same gray-blackish on the majority of the villain gives him a sense of strength, as well as an appearance of evilness. The hero uses contrast of colors to show strength, power, and ability. The contrast of the red cape, blue pants, and yellow belt give him a bright look, which helps translate into goodness, clearly making him a hero. Another topic that I am going to look at is the idea of active and didactic. The hero uses and active process by having the A on his belt, gun, and lightning bolt show that he is setting out to fight crime. However, the villain doesn’t really have anything to show that he is a villain so it is up to you to come to that conclusion by looking at other aspects of him.