WEEK 13: (QUESTION 4)

1)  Apart from their different sizes, it is obvious from Luxo Jr. that the big lamp is “older” and that the small lamp is “younger”.

How is this communicated by the animation? Give at least THREE examples.

 1) I can see that the smaller lamp is more enthusiastic, because it was "hopping around alot", whereas the bigger lamp was not moving around much.

2) The smaller lamp had alot of quick movements, like when it was hitting the ball, and then bouncing on the ball.

3) The larger lamp seemed to be doing things slowly. And, it didnt really seem attracted to the ball as much as the little ball was attracted.

2)  Give an example from Luxo Jr of how timing is used for comic effect. Explain how the timing decisions contribute to the humour.

 i found the part where the ball deflated, funny. During this period of time the person who created this video, sped up the timing and made us all excited. After a while, the ball becomes still of a fraction of a second, and then starts to slowly deflating. The part where the ball becomes stiff makes us all get a shock, because after that, it slowly deflates. This adds humous because we didnt realise that the ball was going to deflate.

3)   When you create a joint chain, these form a hierarchy, with the first joint at the top and the last joint at the bottom. Explain why this is necessary for the joints to work properly.

This is basically because, if one of the joints do not work, then the whole things wouldnt work. for example, the bottom part of something might move, however the top might just remain at the same position. This would make animation more difficult, as te animator would have to animate every part of their object individually.