Scene Analysis -- Ice Age: Continental Drift

 

Ice Age: Continental Drift 

"Ice Age 4" is about the adventure story of animal families who are still living in the Ice Age .

That always chase pineal squirrels made a bigger event this time, he inadvertently causes the break up of Pangaea. This making the mammoth Manny, the sloth Sid and the smilodon Diego and their families separated. 

  Movie clips

 

Scrat find a place to put an acorn in the midst of the ice fields, but because of this, a  crack was suddenly appearance in the ice fields, and he fell into the center of the earth through cracks……

 Exaggeration  

Scrat almost pressed nose close to the ground, and sniffing in front of the camera, Such an exaggerated close up not only shaping personalities of character, but also increase the film's interesting.

The last action is very exaggerated, Scrat backward fast movement, such exaggerated emphasis on the suddenness of the action.

Arcs  

In order to performance the dexterity of Scrat's body, it is often present the arc posture.

This posture is extended and good-looking, the arc application can make the action more vivid, more attractive and reflect personalities.

Anticipation & Follow Through and Overlapping Action

Squash and Stretch

Example 1.

Scrat's body is stretched very exaggerated in the process of suddenly drop.

Example 2.

This action reflects the squashed state when Scrat is falling, he tried to open hands to slow down the rate of decline.

 

 Staging & appeal  

In the process of decline, the lens has been followed by the Scrat, the background become blurred due to the quickly decline; however, Scrat‘s action is not panic disorder, make foreground and background become the visual contrast.

Scrat‘s actions are very expressive, like hands are burning and the crazy action after the body on fire, using a lot of squash and stretch actions and exaggerated movements; in addition, the facial expressions and body language are very well, which makes the character more appealing.

Timing

The series actions was very good control in timing, Scrat's action is very rhythmic, sometimes slow, sometimes fast, the level is very clear.

The film will elevated to a higher level if the timing control well.

 

conclusion 

•Through the analysis of the clips, I learned a lot.

•For me, this makes me more depth understanding the application of 12 animation principles in animation film.

•In addition, I found a lot of problems when I was doing animation, I hope to overcome these problems in the future study.