essay so far.

Disney’s animated feature film ‘Frozen’ has won Oscars for best animated feature and best song, and has also grossed worldwide more than 1.2 billion. (2014, Malec, b). Margita Thompson, as quoted by in (2014, Lynskey, D) stated that ‘[The amount of frozen merchandise that sold] truly exceeded expectation on every level’. For this reason, I believe its arguable that Disney’s films ‘Frozen’ success, there is a sense of popularity with in the character ‘Elsa’ within audience members.

There is a variety of possible reasoning’s to possibly why Elsa is a character that we, the audience, can empathise with. For example; semiotics, colour theory, relatability, archetypes- can manipulate audiences to like a character, remember them and even so emotionally identify with them.

'Frozen becomes 5th highest grossing film ever! Find out how much money its made'

by Brett Malec, 2014 27 may

has become the fifth highest-grossing film of all time. 

After sweeping theaters worldwide like a snowstorm for over half a year, Frozen has grossed a whopping $1.219 billion at the box office! 

In March, Frozen won the Oscar for Best Original Song for the undeniably catchy tune "Let It Go," which is world-renowned in its own right now.

http://www.eonline.com/uk/news/545672/frozen-becomes-5th-highest-grossing-film-ever-find-out-how-much-money-it-s-made

Frozen (2013)-IMDb

Gross:

 $400,738,009  (USA)






http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294629/

Life Drawing week four

In this session we focused on shading.

Photoshop drawing of charachter

Practice  using drawing tablets and Photoshop, to draw my character.

Weekly Summaries- Dynamic Animation- Week 5

Week 5: (27.10.17)

What I learnt:

This week we were introduced into TV Paint and Wacom tablets. This was my first time using both of these technologies. At first, I found it uncomfortable using the drawing tablet, but with practice I slowly eased it to getting used to it and my drawing lines becoming more refined. On Tv paint, we learnt how to import reference imagery, and how to add frames. We practiced this by recreating our animations of ball bounces. Mine came out successful, I even further experimented by adding secondary action and backgrounds, however I need to experiment further with the tools, and how to export correctly.

Progress this week:

To further understand jumps, I watched a live stream of Aaron Blaise ‘Basic physics & Timing of a bears jump’. And a video on ‘Time and spacing’ by Richard Williams.  For both character design and research, I decided to further understand the human walk by recording walk footage myself.

'What makes an hero?' -Matthew Winkler, Ted-Talks

from this information compared to the film 'Frozen', I believe the character Anna ( Elsa's sister) is in fact the hero of the story. She is the one who goes on the journey, to find Elsa, meets the mentor, Kristoff, fights off the snow creatures, left to die by Hans. Try's to fight off the magic, saves Elsa. Then dies, by freezing to death. She is the  reborn, and is reward by her sisters love, and a new equilbruim.
Because of this, I need to find what role 'Elsa' plays.