After reviewing the 12 principles of animation,this animation in particular came to mind. Bill Plymton clearly presents the idea of squashing and stretching to depict texture, fluidity as well as dimention. It's a really unusual short, but its really inspiring and hypnotising.
Personally I feel that Plympton's aim behind this short was to experiment and successfully demonstrate fluid movements, dimensions and distortion. He manages to create slow and distinctive transitions from shape to shape using detailed hand-drawn animation, which is really fascinating to me.
The song the animation is paired to is obviously important. The song is originally sounds like it is sung by a woman, however in Plympton's animation, the song is slowed down to make the vocals sound like a man. The song is quite poetic in describing someone's beautiful features, which is juxtaposed by Plympton's visual interpretation of the musical tune and metaphors.
Overall I can see myself constantly referencing this piece when
starting my own animations because it contains the 12 principles of animation, most
notably the Squash and Stretch principle which is strongly demonstrated
throughout.
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