Critiquing Super Heroes/Villains

After finishing the Super Hero/ Villain project for class last week, I grew curious and decided to critique other's animations, based on their color, contrast and affinity, and tension and release. Here were my findings:

Tyler Dawley's "Sun Boy"
A fun and exciting breath of fresh air, Dawley's "Sun Boy" character was very original, funny, and creative. Sun Boy is a giant sun that shoots his rays of sunshine for everyone to enjoy the beautiful weather. Being that "it's always sunny where I [Sun Boy] go," one can infer that color is a big deal with Sun Boy, particularly with brightness. Sun Boy dons bright tints of yellow on his sunny costume/body. Much of it is kept in a steady and even saturation of yellow and maintains a solidarity uniform color. Obviously yellow, being Sun Boy's hue, indicates Sun Boy's bright, happy, and sunny personality. With contrast and affinity, we mostly see the contrast with the surrounding areas that Sun Boy arrives in. Most of the areas are dark, dismal, and even rainy until Sun Boy arrives on the scene and bursts the setting into an array of sunshine and happiness. Likewise, once Sun Boy makes his surrounding a happy place to be, he has created an affinity of joy and happiness for everyone else to experience. With tension and release, we see that much of the tension, as mentioned before, is with the dark, dismal, and unpleasant areas of the animation. However, the tension is released once Sun Boy comes into the scene and brightens up the day with his rays of sunshine. Sun Boy was both an intricate, inventive character as well as a lovable, enjoyable one. I anticipate his many other adventures soon!

Vincent Franks's Super Villain
A flawlessly EVIL super villain, Franks's villain lived up to all the correct stereotypes: vile, merciless, sneaky, scary, and violent! Vincent's unnamed villain captures the very essence of evil with his bright red light saber sword, hateful yellowed eyes, and expensive, but dark looking attire. Also following villainous tradition, Franks's villain donned deep hues of red and black colors in his expensive attire. This hue, as mentioned previously adds a dark perceptive to the character. The yellow of his sneaky, snake eyes make him appear to be an untruthful being. Also his odd alien-colored skin of pinkish-red make him appear other-worldly, and another reason to not be trusted. With saturation, we can see the villain's attire gets brighter in the middle (from black to grayish-black) because he wears a chest plate that shimmers in the light. This can also be applied with the brightness of the villain's costume because of the bright spots on his chest plate. With contrast and affinity within the animation, we can see how much more detail was used with the villain as opposed to the hero he fights (contrast). Nevertheless, both characters had the same build and even similar skill in fighting (affinity). Observing tension and release, the tension built when the hero almost got away from our antihero villain until the villain teleports in front of the hero and chops him to death with his red light saber. Vincent's super villain was creative, vicious, and among one of my favorites.

Capri Ciulla's "Biohazard"
Another original and personal favorite of mine, Capri Ciulla's villain Biohazard struck me as a completely original, innovative, and vile villain. Biohazard, like Vincent Frank's villain, captures the essence of evil with a mysterious veil around his eyes, pointy, painful looking juts coming out of his attire, and, his unsanitary appearance (including yellowed eyes, teeth, nails/claws, and disgusting scabs covering his body. Color was definitely a big influencing factor in the creation of this villain. As mentioned, his yellowed eyes, teeth, and nails show his unsanitary and evil intentions; his black and red costume shows that he does not represent the good guys; and his green and yellow gas of sickness escaping his hands represent that his super powers involve putting people in terrible health via his bio-terrorism (hue). The saturation on Biohazard can mostly be seen with the shades and tints of yellow throughout his body, each representing which part of his body he doesn't keep clean. His teeth are far much more yellow than his nails, and his eyes, not necessarily having anything to do with cleanliness as much as evilness, are the deepest yellow objects on his body. Similarly, with brightness, Biohazard's eyes illuminate the most on his body, making him appear more villainous than if they were not so yellow. Comparing the contrast and affinity within the animation, we see that Biohazard is far much bigger in build than his nemesis, the hero Night Nurse (contrast); and we see that both the super hero and villain deal with powers involving health and cleanliness (affinity). With tension and release, we fear the worst for the girl who is attacked by Biohazard (tension), but she is saved by the grace of Night Nurse who engulfs her in a protective force field, saving her from Biohazard's bio-hazardous waste. Capri's super villain was intricate, original, and also another favorite of mine.