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With the simplicity of the "Sun Boy" animation, much can be said about the use of color and movement in the animation. I want to focus upon the color of the animation because Tyler really focuses on the Hue of the characters, superhero, and backdrop that was chosen. The characters are a straight black which contrast with the green background that givens no sense of affinity so that the viewer can easily differentiate the characters, ground and even the horizon. The brightness of the superhero and hue was chosen with the subconscious thought of a hero's display of happiness. The conscious objective of the hero is to display a happy, large, floating character, which had power, and represents life to the people the Sun Boy helps. The bright yellow color represents happiness in psychology, so as the objective of the character he represents nice weather, joy and determination of the boys keep playing ball with one another. Subjectively the saturation of the characters makes them seem just plain and no objective stance like Sun Boy gives off. Sun Boy has a face that exemplifies his character; he also talks with his mouth and is always brightening up the mood of others. Saturation of the lines in the face of the character Sun Boy shows that it is round which represents comfort, which is an obvious statement of objectivity. Color is very simple in the animation but small affects have lots of meaning like the old saying “ a picture can be worth a thousand words”.
In Vincent's animation he really displayed a great perception of lighting within the animation. The first lighting component I would like to focus on is the shadows used on the characters in one of the wide shots that was used. The white man who is portrayed as the villain actually has a bit of shadows on his body, his legs are put a bit into perspective by the light red color that surounds his legs. It gives weight to his legs and helps the character look more villainous which is the objective point the animator made. Subjectively the animator portrayed the man with the light saber as the powerful being in the animation because he is darker and obviously catches the villain who is running from him. Most of the symbolism was easily profound within the animation through colors, even though dark colors are recognized as a villain, the good guy ends up winning the battle. The characters contrast is didactic due to the colors that are used within the characters costumes. The dark colors show that the man in power is the man who has a face and can complete better superpowers. The white and gray shades are passive and looked over as kind of like a wolf chasing a sheep. The wolf chases who looks more aggressive and the sheep who runs only has the option to run. The mood set within the animation comes from the music, background, costumes, and characters emotional expressions on their faces. The music heats up as the character meet and run from one another, the background movement gives a quick sense of emotion and brings upon the scene.
In Gretchens' fight between both of the super heros of aqua woman and evaporation girl there was not a lot of movement but there is much to say by the little movement. Aqua woman was given the weight easily in the animation, she is much bigger and her colors portray good, which in most cases wins. On the other hand evaporation girl has very little power because of her insignificance of her portrayal in the wide shot, also her weak colors represent didactic weakness in the shot. Both characters paralleled each other as their movements were displayed, the objective of their movements were very light but each character gave off some sort of power from their hands. Tension is created through the characters slow movements and the tension was released when Aqua woman finally destroyed her evil villain evaporation girl. The overlapping movements were not coordinated with the characters, much of what the characters moved were simple and small movements. Even though the movements were small they were conscious examples of beginners movement of characters and showed the that the characters could portray themselves as a a hero and villain. The color was the main characteristic and line movement of them. The line movement led every shot and how the characters were effected by the environment they were in. Overlapping the movement did not really give much emphasis on the characters or the environment they were in though. The weight and line movement created the animation and gave the characters most of their emotion and mood.
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