You know? I have been hearing a lot about how people feel discouraged about doing animations when they are not good at drawing. What they don’t seem to realize is that you do not have to be a good artist to make good animations. The animation “These are the Boring Bits,” is a prime example of this. This fifteen-minute clip about a man trying to decide if he should leave his current job just to see what else he can do with his life had what might have been some of the simplest drawing I have ever seen in an animation (well, not really but still). All of the characters were faces with no bodies and the only time you saw their hands was when they were picking up something. The backgrounds were also very simple with only a window or a poster in most of the scenes. However, what makes this animation so effective is because of what little it has (to me at least). The characters having no bodies gave the clip a very unique feel to it. I also loved how some things changed into different things like when Morgan’s (the main character) headset turns into an eye patch and pirate hook or when Morgan’s friend Caroline’s hair turns into a plant when she talks about how she wants to be a weed. Having these things helped make these scenes more interesting (which was good because without them they would be the most boring scenes).
Another example of simple drawing having an effect with animation is the short “Bendito Machine.” In this clip, we see what happens to a village that takes a machine created through some sort of religious like way and uses it for profit. With all the characters being silent, having shadowy designs and the only other color being the color of the sky, we are given a very interesting tale of what happens when you mess with nature only for your own gain.
I hope this shows you that you do not have to be good at drawing to get into animation. As long as you give it a unique feel to it, you can keep the audiences interests.
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