blog #6 animation deconstruction

     For this assignment I chose the cartoon Spongebob Sqaurepants. Usually in this cartoon they use very bright hues because it's generally a happy cartoon, nothing ever goes wrong except the usual Plankton trying to steal the Krabby Patty recipe. The hues in the first picture they chose were bright yellows, purples, and greens because  the characters don't have a care in the world. They're just floating around blowing bubbles so they used these hues to create happiness. The second picture however, something tragic happens. Spongebob and Patrick take a train to a foreign place called Rock Bottom that is very scary and unknown to them and they can't figure out how to get back home. For this they still use the characters hues of pink and yellow, but they are faded. The background is very dark and uses grays and blacks.
     The brightness and saturation are very different in these two photos. The first one is very bright and doesn't use any dark colors at all because it is a happy scene. The second photo uses all dark colors (besides the characters), but even the characters' bright colors are very desaturated and faded out.
     They don't really use any shadows in Spongebob, but if they were to put shadows in these scenes there would be a lot more shadows in the second picture to resemble darkness and that they are in a scary place. The symbolism of the colors is that the darker colors resemble the scary, foreign place they are in. In the first picture the bright colors symbolize happiness which also puts you in these moods when you watch these specific scenes.
     In the first picture the movements are very diagonal as opposed to the second picture all the lines are going parallel. There aren't many things in each scene so there are not many overlapping movements. The weight in the first picture I would consider light because it is using very easy colors to look at. The second picture is more contrasting with the different colors.