Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea

Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo will be my last addition to this blog.  The movie was released in 2008, and it was one of the most beautiful animation I've ever seen.  Not just beautiful, but it has a good story too. Without further ado, here is some of the screenshots:

The above pictures shows that the town they live in is quite a lovely town.  The sun is shining brightly, the trees, the rocks, the houses and the seas looks so bright, so high in saturation.   It is like having a peaceful and happy life.  Noticed that blue and green are dominating the images above.  They seem to be giving out a cool and friendlier color.  We don't see a lot of highly saturated red or yellow or orange to keep us alert.  The blue and green help us feel easy and relax.

The next one is where the father break his promise to go back home and meet up with his family.  He spent the night on the sea with the rest of the ship's crew.  The father and Sosuke decided to use morse code to speak to each other.  They uses the light in the house and in the ship.  Then the father tries to apologies to his wife by using all sorts of beautiful light that is available on the ship.  This scene was quite captivating, as there was suddenly a bright light in the middle of a dark sea.

The last image that I want to talk about is the one where Ponyo finally escaped his father place and tries to see Sosuke.  The ocean started to rise, waves are racing each other to hit the land and the storm is getting heavier.  The people of the town are getting afraid of the tsunami.  The colour is starting to desaturated in here.  It become a lot more grey, and the we also feel that something dangerous is happening or about to happen. 

Lastly, I would like to say that this colour class I have been attending is quite good.  I never actually spent so much time paying attention to colour.  I believe with the right understanding and careful choice, I could hopefully produce a good film in the future.  It is not just about how good the animation or the drawing, or the rendering or the modelling are; every aspect has its own part and importance.  Finally, thank you very much for the attention for all this time.  Have a good day. :)

Aladdin

Another one of Disney's movie, Aladdin.  As always, Disney has done it again with its movies.  Aladdin has a lot of colourful scenes. 

At the beginning of the film, Jafar the royal advisor is seeking for the genie in the lamp.  He collected the key to open the dungeon that withold the magic lamp.  As soon as the dungeon appears, it shows another color in the dark blue-ish savannah.  The inside of the cave (the mouth of the animal) has a bright red and yellow glow, a complimentary colour to the environment. 

And again, when Aladdin bring Jasmine to his place, he showed her that eventhough his place is quite dirty and messy, he has a wonderful view of the sultan's palace.  Thus we have another good colour mood.  The blue-ish dark sky in the environment and the bright white and yellow-brownish palace.  It is indeed a magnificent view.

Another example is when Jafar is trying to find somebody worthy to take the lamp from the dungeon.  He is an evil character, an evil sorcerer about to do something bad to Aladdin, and in here, the scene is feel with a red glow that signifies something bad is happening or about to happen.  While tha last picture shows a cool and comforting blue atmosphere.  The only bright light is on the top of the stones, shows the importance of the lamp.

Ivan Aivazovsky

These last 3 entries of my blog will talked about colour mood and narrative.  In this particular entry, I will show you some paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky.  He is a Russian painter that is well known for his seascapes paintings.  I have look a lot of his paintings and indeed the sea paintings are awesome.  The mood and atmosphere was set up beautifully in the painting.  He was born in July 29, 1817 and died at the age of 83.  And now let's take a look at his paintings:

A beautiful painting called 'Moonlit Seascape with Shipwreck'.  I think Ivan really did a magnificent job in this painting.  You can easily tell the drama in this painting.  There are several people looking at the shipwreck in the middle of the sea.  But they can't see it clearly because it is dark in the night.  There's a strong contrast between the silhouette of the ship and the sky and also the watch tower and the sky.

This one is also immensely wonderful.  A great battle takes place in the sea, and several ships are destroyed and burned.  The fire roars and burns mighty high in the sky, coloring its surrounding.  This fire really captures our attention because the environment is quite dark which creates a great contrast in stauration.

These paintings has a lot of different mood and atmosphere to each other, but they all have strong emotions tied to it.  Like a sunset, a sunrise, a misty sea and a really cold mountain.  The exaggeration on the atmosphere really speaks to us, the audience.