Reviews of other Heroes and Villains

Grace's Blog

Grace has posted the animation but not the pictures of the super heroes, so I am going to focus on the movement of the characters.  Escobar is a super hero reincarnation of Charlie Chaplin whose enemy is the Krooked Cop.  The Krooked Cop's movements are very rigid and headstrong.  When he sees Escobar in the animation he just goes right for him without a second thought.  I feel as if his describes his character, because to me he seems like those cops in the movies who just go all out toward something, and for that reason they often end up tricked by people like Escobar.  The contrast between the two characters is very evident by their movement because Escobar is very smooth with his movements.  He is relaxed, and simply twirling his cane while he waits for the Krooked Cop to come closer.  The information that we receive about the characters through there movements adds a nice subtext to what we see in the stationary characters.  The animation does a great job of creating weight, especially when we see how the cops head gives when he is hit by the cane and then falls to the ground.  The overlapping action is done very well, especially with Escobar's character when he is winding up to hit the cop.  Something that the animation is lacking a little bit of followthrough, the characters just kind of stop.

Haley's Blog

The super hero-villain combo for this animation was Nerd Boy and Sorority Girl.  They took a very subjective approach to who is who because either could really be the hero or the villain.  Nerd Boy is the supposed hero, but he always seems to try and save the wrong person and in that way ends up ruining things.  So it is up for interpretation whether he is good or not. There is affinity between the two characters in the shapes that are used to create them, but there is contrast in the colors.  Nerd Boy is predominantly blue and sorority girl is pink.  This difference in hues very representatives of the genders which are very important to these particular characters.  Both the saturation and brightness don't seem to have been a concern when creating the characters, because they are basically the same with both.  However maybe this was to put emphasis on the fact that they are both good and bad.

Izzie' heroes are not up.