Monday, March 11, 2013

Animation Style Reference: "Dirty Harry" Music Clip by Gorillaz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLnkQAeMbIM


I consider this Limited Animation, and yet it is still effective, due to the strong illustrations and poses.

This animated music video has many elements in it that are great and approriate references for the ZB Cartoon: 
- Strong Illustrations + Poses
- Photorealistic Backgrounds
- Shallow Depth of Field
- Shifts of Focus
- Lens Flares
- 'Lit' Colouring Style (This is something that would be ideal, but we may not have time for.  It really does help integrate the 2D animated characters into the photorealistic world though).

The Dirty Harry Clip looks like it has been done with Traditional Drawn Animation, but I believe much of it could have been done with Flash symbol style animation and it would have been similiar.  It's only when the characters rotate their angles occasionally that you can see that its drawn out frame-by-frame.   

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