I felt anger as well as sadness when I saw MeToon Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (2019) because it was about how badly women working in animation at the time would be treated. The movie makes the point very clear so that the viewer can easily understand the point it is trying to make, which is to show us that it is important to stand up for what is wrong. The video also made me think about how animation is not only a way to please people, but also a way to use animation to send a message and raise awareness in society.

Jeremy Couillard’s Alien Afterlife Trailer was new to me. The scenes and visual effects are really cool, and it makes me want to incorporate them into my future work. There are parts of it that I’m visually tired of but that doesn’t stop me from being curious about it. After all, interesting things are like a mystery that you want to dig deeper and deeper into.

Don Hertzfeldt’s Simpsons Couch Gag is particularly interesting to me. Because it’s the most iconic opening of The Simpsons. Their production boasts a particularly gripping visual style. The mix of hand-drawn and digitally animated is also a sight to behold. What impressed me the most was the attention to detail and the fact that even though the graphics are a bit messy, it blends in perfectly with the Simpsons universe. So every detail of this video I think is a perfect fit.

BEAUTY by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro from 2014 inspired me to make waves. Because it’s more than simply animation, it’s a work of art, and it left me in awe of the piece. The slow transition from the drawing at the beginning to the animation is very elegant, and every frame shows us the word elegance. That’s why his work is one of my favorites here.