Bronze

Frodo's Pointless Journey

West Chicago

Animation Stop Motion

Entry Description

"Frodo and Gandalf head out on a journey... to nowhere in particular." An original stop-motion animation piece.

Judge 1

Positives: Good variety of shots, nice animation. (see below)

Improvements: Slow down your actions. There is some nice animation but it moves too fast to really take in what you have created. When you slow the actions down shoot more inbetweens and holds, do not do time stretches. That will destroy your effective animation. Research the 12 Principles of Animation by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston.

Judge 2

Positives: Lego is always fun. Some nice backgrounds.

Improvements: Certainly lives up to its title. The lack of a story really makes it hard to care about what is happening on screen. Camera is all over the place and never consistent. Having the characters actually walk instead of gliding would have helped a little. There was no humor, or jokes, drama, action, or anything to latch onto. You can't just have two people walking and that's it. Give us something, anything.

Judge 3

Positives: Your motion is smooth, and I like the concept of the journey in what is in essence your life / home...

Improvements: You built it well, but need to be building to something. Come up with another ending and this could be quite nice.