Western Spaghetti
Stop Motion Animation
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Main Idea of Stop Motion:
For a professional review, I wanted to review a project that I think is neat and different from normal computer animation. So I decided to pick a stop motion animated film. For those of you who are not familiar with stop motion, stop motion is a type of animation but instead of pure animation, it is a mix between film and animation. It sometimes uses real life objects with animated objects and combines the two. The thing about combining both real life objects and animated objects is the fact that you have to move objects around, frame by frame which takes FOREVER! The film I chose to write about is Western Spaghetti. Western Spaghetti is about taking real life things that you wouldn't normally use to cook and using them as food, and cooking utensils or whatever is needed to cook spaghetti.
Elements from Stop Motion:
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The stop motion uses elements that relate to the foods you would use to make spaghetti but it's not exactly those foods. Honestly at first, it was somewhat difficult to pull out what the idea was behind this film and whether it was make for fun or enjoyment or if it had a story behind it. I believe it was make more for viewing things differently, and seeing the creativity of using yarn type materials and sewing materials to create spaghetti. For example, you see the person boil long colored toothpicks which later come out of he boiling water as colored rubber bands. This refers to when you put in hard spaghetti noodles and when they boil for long enough, they come out soft and flexible like. This of course isn't the only neat aspect that catches my eye but there are many things that pop out as neat to me.
Design:
The design of the stop motion film is very creative and I thought the idea of using cooking to show that is a good way to go. If I had to guess, i'd say the title of the stop motion film refers to the west as normally being a place where knitting is used a lot and when cooking spaghetti they incorporated the knitting and sewing in with it to form western spaghetti. Not only is the stop motion creative but it uses elements that would show comparison to the food you would put in spaghetti. For example, it uses yellow post it notes to be used as butter being easily sliced. They also use a rubber cube and chop it into smaller pieces which I thought was really neat since it showed the work and effort that had to go into making that rub cube split up into all of those pieces. The use of needle holders in tomato form to create the spaghetti sauce and the aluminum foil being squirted out of the water holder was neat. I wonder how much time went into this process because based on how the aluminum foil was used and was perfectly formed to look like real water took. Same with the tomatoes being smashed and turning into tomato sauce.
Conclusion:
Overall, the creation of this project was worth while (obviously shown through views) and left a confused, shocked and curious face on the viewers of this video wondering how in the world this video was created. I hope to someday incorporate this style of animation into my work and really be shown the hassle it is to make one of these stop motions come to life.
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The design of the stop motion film is very creative and I thought the idea of using cooking to show that is a good way to go. If I had to guess, i'd say the title of the stop motion film refers to the west as normally being a place where knitting is used a lot and when cooking spaghetti they incorporated the knitting and sewing in with it to form western spaghetti. Not only is the stop motion creative but it uses elements that would show comparison to the food you would put in spaghetti. For example, it uses yellow post it notes to be used as butter being easily sliced. They also use a rubber cube and chop it into smaller pieces which I thought was really neat since it showed the work and effort that had to go into making that rub cube split up into all of those pieces. The use of needle holders in tomato form to create the spaghetti sauce and the aluminum foil being squirted out of the water holder was neat. I wonder how much time went into this process because based on how the aluminum foil was used and was perfectly formed to look like real water took. Same with the tomatoes being smashed and turning into tomato sauce.
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