I am a sucker for comedies; especially animated comedies. If I watch a movie or television show that makes me laugh to no end or cry like a little school girl, then it's a movie I will never regret watching. I added crying in there because I also enjoy movies that make me experience sadness since it doesn't make me feel like I'm an emotionless droid. While we're on the topic of sorrow, the saddest animated movie I have ever seen in my entire life is a Japanese anime film called Grave of the Fireflies. I've never cried so hard in a movie before; beautiful work of art and worth seeing. Anyway, back to the funny stuff!
Animation and humor go hand in hand like milk and cookies. The milk is animation and the cookie is humor. Animation absorbs humor and molds it in any way shape or form. (I bet you're loving this analogy right now. It's making me hungry, too). Humor is expressed in a lot of ways depending on the film or show. Physical comedy has always been a favorite of mine, especially from watching Loony Tunes. Why did I choose an image of DreamWorks for this topic? This is solely my opinion, but out of every animated industry out there, this is my go to for comedy. DreamWorks freaking nails it with their humor, this is the primary emotion I feel whenever I watch their movies.
There's a thin line between a kids show and an adult cartoon. I say thin because there have been kid shows where subtle contents of adult humor are seeped into it and completely go over the heads of kids. Movies, too. I have no problem with this. I actually fully admire it because it's great to get the jokes later on. I love every type of humor except maybe extremely cheesy one liners.
Humor isn't the only thing animators go for, but it's actually really important to have some sort of humor when going into the animation business because it's such a loose and free environment to work in. Funny ideas adds that extra layer of cake (or onion in Shrek's case) that everyone looks for.
Too many pastry references. I'm gunna go eat grapes.
Thanks for reading! Next topic will be on a personal favorite of mine: Music in animation!
No comments:
Post a Comment