The crock files

This time around I decided to choose the animation by Todd Gallina called the crock files.

Right off the bat even before I open the webpage to watch the flash animation I can notice a very different animation style from "Teddy and Anna." The most noticible to me is the dark outlines one sees in all of Todd Gallina's animation videos, compared to Teddy and Anna, which have no dark outlines on the animation. Continuing on the style of the animation, the crock files characters are more abstact, the lines which create them aren't very smooth, often very rough in nature.

The movement is jumpy, it simply jumps back and fourth in the frames to give the illusion of movement. In Teddy and Anna, the characters acctually showed what I call natural movement, they seemed more human and the characters design was also much more human like and natural. Going deep into detail to further my point, I want to bring up the eyes from both animations. The characters from crock files primarily have simple circles as their eyes, yet in Teddy and Anna, the characters have (I use this word a lot) more natural or human like eyes consisting of eye sockets, puples, basically the whole eye sructure itself.

The dialogue in crock files is more of a modern style to voicing over, instead of the old style separate scene which has written dialogue that those who are watching must see and read instead of listen to. In the crock files, all one has to do is have their volume up enough to be able to listen to what the character is saying and to hear the various "things" going on.

One thing I did not bring up in Teddy and Anna is that one does not hear the movement or activity, music is playing over the entire animation, the dialogue isn't even heard, only read. But in the crock files, you can hear simple activity and also hear what the character is saying.

The crock files has a comedic plot to its animation, which allows for laughter. I see this as a reason for its more choppy and less natural animation as well as the much brighter colors throughout the episode. Teddy and Anna was more of a dark series, and had darker colors and darker music to show the seriousness of the animation.

All in all, the two very distict styles of Teddy and Anna and the crock files basically have to do with the story being portrayed and also with the preference and style of the animator.

As to which one I might prefer, I am the type of person who would enjoy brighter colors and more of a comedic animaton as opposed to dark colors such as browns and serious/dark animations which I really dislike.