Week 8

Imperial Silence: Los ABCs

An eerie animation chronicling deaths and misadventures through upbeat song. All of the characters were skeletons, giving the image of death returning to share last moments. The animators use simple, little detailed features for the cartoons: big eyes, teeth and slits for nose. The animation has minimal movements with a primary focus on the clothes of the characters and the background. There is no use of walk-cycles or wheel movement in cars. Characters and trucks glide across the screen. Despite this lack of detail, the animation still works because the primary focus is not on how the characters are moving but what they are wearing and where they are. Besides, each segment is so short that there is not need to be entirely detailed to still get the message of each section.