Rendezvous With CANDYCRACKER

From the first moment I laid eyes on this video, it was apparent that it was not going to be like anyting else I had every seen. And, indeed it was not.

However, the story line was simple when broekn down. A character, the main character or protagonist, murdered a priest and stole its heart. Afterwards the murderer is running from the police or antagonist, in order to escape capture. While attempting to escape a second Antagonis, the candycracker, severs the tendons of the murderer's fingers. This causes the murderer to fall, seemingly causing death.

One thing in this video is that the death is mainly assumed because the animator shows the visual perspective of the murderer as he is falling, one never sees the impact and proof of death. I do not know if this is any type of method used by the animator or if it simply seemed like a creative way to end what I call a very bizzar video.

The characters themselves did not resemble humans, they were strangly created, some with huge hands on which they sat others (the police) which were basically cylender shape with guns. With the apparent "strange" style of the characters, I am lead to believe that the animater did not have the ablity to draw natural human figures. Which I was told is a method for getting around this difficulty.

There were only a few sound effects, ranging from the sound of the tendons snapping to the sound of the horse running. There was no dilague at all, but there was music which played consistently throughout the video. The music I noticed did not fade or break, or even stop at any point for the duration of the flash video. However, the choice of music did seem to follow along with the animation almost as though it were created just for it (this I do not know). I can speculate that the animator spent a great amount of time detailing everything from the music to the background just right.

What else is so different about this video, well there is a lot more. Some of which I am sure would take me hours and hours to tap into. For now, I add that with the characters there were two colors, white and red. The red was bright, and very bold. I feel this was used as a method to have the characters really stand out from the surrounding background. And, the backgrounds were very basic, almost see through. They looked like simple pencle sketches and this could also have been a method to really make the characters stand out.

All in all, I did not really like the video. I chose it because it was different but it did not appeal to me in any other way, if anything I found it to be annoying from the consistent chewing of Candycracker to the extremely strage style of the characters. It isn't me or my style...