My Presentation: Holy sheep

Holy Sheep created by the character animator Justin Farris, this was an short film for his senior thesis at the Ringling College of Art and Design. Justin recently had become animation resident at the Pixar animation studios.

I thought the whole concept design was fantastic, well thought out and simple to follow but at the same time had so much thought and depth to it.


My thoughts: 

The storyline is simple, A Shepard has a herd of sheep who try to follow him to church, The Shepard tries to prevent the sheep from following him. Farris has used the relationship between The Shepard and the Sheep and the conflicting motives of the characters to create humour and charm in the animation. The 

 Analogous colours used in the scene create a peaceful atmosphere (blue and green are next to each other on the colour wheel).

Farris uses a dynamic establishing shot to introduce the church, Farris has made effective use staging, leading the viewers eye to the church by intensifying and directing the light over the church symbolising a holy church as well as effective use of flow lines in the shepherds pose to lead the viewer to the church on the hill.

Farris has placed the Shepard and the sheep on opposing intersecting points in the rule of thirds, making a well balanced establishing shot.

The sheep are just as important as the Shepard, but are limited to the emotions they can portray.  The sheep’s designs are exaggerated forms of  ordinary sheep,  simple  large round body with big round eyes give the character a lot of appeal.

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