Animation: Inside Out Review

As being a really big Disney fan, the professional project I chose to do was the movie inside out. The movie inside out is about a girl named Riley and her emotions: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust. In the beginning of the movie joy and sadness have a little argument about her core memories. They end up getting sucked up into the tube and get sent to long-term memory where all of her memories are stored. After that, they have to try and find their way back to headquarters. Along the way, they run into lots of Riley’s old memories and learn more about Riley’s mind and who she really is. In they end, joy and sadness end up realizing that Sadness really isn’t bad and that she should be more incorporated into Riley’s life.

            They animation in this project is amazing. Obviously, cause it’s a movie. However, what you would have never expected is that it took many different tries to get each character exactly how they wanted it. They would do many different 3D models and make them out of clay to see if it would even look good. For this particular movie, disgust was the hardest character to make. They couldn’t figure out if they wanted her to be disgusting or disgusted. Another character that was difficult to create was sadness, because although she had to be sad, sometimes she also had to be happy. Sometimes it’s hard to make a sad person seem happy. They also had some problems with her shape.

            One element of this movie I could try applying to my own work is to go out and see real world examples of what could be going one. For instance, in Inside Out, they idea of how the memories are transported down to long-term is based on an egg factory. They visualized that the eggs were memories, and they watched how they moved. Something that is similar to that that I could apply to my own projects is, for example, the project where we had to move an animated toy down a hallway. I could have brought in a toy wan rolled it down the hallway to see how it moved across the floor. One element that I learned was already applied to this project was the use of 3D and clay modeling.

            One thing the creator of this movie did well was that they went out into the real world and got some realistic ideas for a movie that isn’t realistic. This made it feel more real and made it easier to connect with the characters.

            Over all, this movie is really good. It has a great story line and great animations. Also they fact that they brought ideas from the real world into Riley’s world, made the story much more believable and more understandable