Inspiration

To further develop our ideas for how we wanted our animation to look, we researched the work of others.

Last Breath

Our main inspiration was this short by Mak Ying Ping, a student. We really liked the style it was drawn in, quite simple but unusual and almost creepy. The story is set in a dystopian future where breathing is prohibited, and death is the new trend. A man is pressured to enter the trend and take pills that stop you from breathing. The media shows murder, and an unnerving bunny mascot.

Rain Town

This animation was suggested by Su. It was created by a group of students in Kyoto University. The story is about a town where it rains everyday, so those who used to live there had to move away. A girl finds it through an alleyway, and makes friend with an old robot still living there, she plays with it as her grandmother (?) used to, but it is old. I really like the backgrounds used in this, they are so detailed and often whole scenes are just showing parts of the background, it's very atmospheric.