Illustrative effect. Nice style.

Quite a clean advertisement for samsung. Easily do-able in after effects.

2d Animation logo Intro

Really nice use of layering and a minimal colour pallette.

"Group Hug" - MTV

I really like the colour scheme in this short animation. Colour also helps to establish a basic narrative in this short clip.

Pocoyo by Guillermo Gracia Carsi, Luis Gallego and David Cantolla

I love the aesthetics of this children's programme. It is stunning. So simple, but so cleverly done. There is no background, so the characters operate on a blank canvas. Using cinematic tricks they establish narrative and movement. Shadows beneath the characters and objects create the illusion of the ground.

"Ailu" by Chi Yu


Very cute, looks clean.

Animation Styles

"Swelter" by Jacob Streilein

This is a 2D animation I found by Jacob Streilein. I like the consistent colour scheme. It's clear and easy to understand. Aesthetically pleasing. The surroundings are created in layers. Narrative is clear - beginning, middle, end.

Basic Narrative Ideas 2

Jack and Jill

1. Jack and Jill are on a mission. There is no water in their village, they have to get the water to save their town. They manage to get the water back but Jack and Jill die of dehydration.... They will be forever remembered.

2. Jack and Jill go up the hill to get water to make a water slide. They pour the water down the hill then slide down. Jack and Jill get hurt but it was worth it.

3. Jack and Jill are firefighters. They scale a building and put out the fire but Jack falls. Jill catches Jack! She hold his hand and promises that she won't let go... but she does anyway. Then she falls too. Kinda like titanic but Jill falls after Jack like immediately, not 100 years later.

Orange and Lemons

1. A bowl of fruit jiggling.

2. An orange walks into a pub. He goes up to the barman demanding to see Mr Lemon who he gambled with the other day. Orange wants his money and wants Mr Lemon to pay. Five farthings is a lot of money. There is a fight. Orange and lemon juice is made. 

3. Abstract explosion of yellow and orange.

Basic Narrative Ideas

Ring o Rosies

1. Could be interpreted quite sinisterly, with the reference of 'death' - "we all fall down". A dark and negative approach could be taken - perhaps 2 or 3 characters literally die at the end after spinning in a circle too fast or being poisoned.

2."A-tishoo" reminds me of hay-fever. Can be quite humorous, perhaps a character is surrounded by flowers and tries to escape them- doesn't realize he has a pocket full of posies.

3. Could be quite abstract, like having rings of flowers circling in a dynamic way. Maybe make them flow and dance and fall down at the end.

Humpty Dumpty

1. I wouldn't want to take the obvious approach and have another egg as Humpty dumpty. Perhaps the character could be quite a clumsy character or even drunk? Thus showing the consequences of drinking.

2. Maybe Humpty Dumpty gets pushed!

3. Humpty Dumpty was a spy. But not a very good spy... kind of like Johnny English. His mission - to get into a secret facility. But he can't overcome his first obstacle. The wall. Embarrassingly he can't get over and gives up.

Little Miss Muffet

1. I think that Miss Muffet just didn't like her curds and whey and dropped it deliberately and blamed it on the spider.

2. A really evil spider wants to practice it's scary faces, sees a girl as a good target but can't scare her.  in the end the spider jumps into her bowl, miss muffet gets mad and throws the bowl and walks away.

3. Little Miss Muffet gets scared by a spider. Not just any spider, a ginormous spider, 3 buildings tall. All the spider wanted was a friend.

Orange and Lemons

Refers to the square dance 'Oranges and Lemons'. The words are chanted by the children as they play the game, the grizzly end of which comes as a child's head gets caught between two arms in a pretend act of beheading.

Jack and Jill

Originates from France. Jack and Jill are said to be King Louis XVI - Jack - who was beheaded (lost his crown) followed by his Queen Marie Antoiette - Jill - (who came tumbling after.

Little Miss Muffet

Possibly a daughter of a famous entomologist (who studied bugs). The girl was called 'Patience Muffet'.

Humpty Dumpty

Often depicted as an anamorphic egg, the origins of the rhyme is thought to be that of a cannon used during the English Civil War (1642-49). 

Nursery Rhymes

Ring o Rosies

Origin - a common theory is that this nursery rhyme relates to symptoms of the plague, specifically the bubonic plague that spread through Europe in the1340's. However some disagree with this theory due to the time the rhyme was released and the fact that the symptoms are not in fact that of the plague. An alternative and more probable explanation, and one which is almost always the case in nursery rhymes, is that the words are playful nonsense.