This week, we talk a lot about experimental motion graphic. It’s also an unique form of animation art. We need to find and analyse a motion graphic which we are interested.
Bananas is a short but very funny and quirky motion graphic video produced by Xander Marritt and Elias Freiberger in collaboration with the production team FutureDeluxe. The theme of this work is about consciousness and subconscious, reality and surrealism. The overall tone of the work is bright. The pace is fast and slow animation constantly alternating, like unstable emotions. The colors of the slow animation are basically purple and green, with a bit of depression or pessimistic awareness and mood. But warm colors are the dominant color in most of the quick animations, expressing some sense of tension. Along with the exaggerated animation design, the banana becomes even more witty and crazy.
In this bizarre motion graphic, bananas are used to symbolize life as well as the conscious and subconscious mind. The designer said, “Bananas don’t grow everywhere, but you can get them anywhere.” The designer mainly uses 3D models and visual effects to create this work. They personify the very common banana as a medium to express any different person or thing. If the banana doesn’t move, it looks exactly like a normal banana. But designers reflect a variety of conscious and subconscious minds by designing the banana’s movements and shapes. For example, a banana can smoke a cigarette while thinking, or sitting on the toilet in a daze. In the work, the banana in the boiling kettle is not only boiling water, but also can be someone simmering with rage. Although the creation of this work did not use real photography to shoot real objects and use the actual existing materials, when I saw the banana crawling on the ground with banana peel, I really want to say that is my state when I was making 3D animation, especially in the rendering stage. This is my subconscious, caused by bananas. Therefore, obviously, 3D is also the message of this work.