Animation : The New Perspective

The Boy and The Beast / Bakemono No Ko

Directed by Mamoru Hosoda this animation film was about an orphaned kids named Ren/Kyuuta and The Bear as his Master of Kendo in the Beast Kingdom. 

Mamoru Hosoda is a Japanese film director and animator. He was formerly employed at Toei Animation, and he went to work at Madhouse from 2005 to 2011. Mamoru Hosoda then left Madhouse in 2011 to establish his own animation studio, Studio Chizu.

This movie is a good theme about acceptenced and it also showed a beautiful relationship that is hardly to accept at first between two independent characters. The colour that they choose to show the human world was very different with the Beast Kingdom. it make me reflect that we can have a two different theme in one animation based on how the character feeling.

I can use as a reference of the light,purple and bright sun light to show the place that have been left for a long time and also it can sometime as a scene of a flashback memory.




Every background in this movie is colourful, beautiful and full of life and have it's own story. All the action scene are very lively with water and fire with the few scene with CGI were fitting.

The fire and water scene both show a great effect towards this animation. Even though the bad guy had been put aside and had been saved for the last, the scene of the fight and event that took place in the center of Tokyo still give a beautiful impact.




I highlight this two scene from the time that they had been training together. The colour that had been used show how the character had build their relationship through time and season. The effect on sunlight that coming through from the tree give a good effect on how I understand the hard and strong relationship they had built and manage to combine their different.



Here, I put the trailer of the movie Bakemono No Ko

The reference of colour script from the flashback in Krampus movie give me a major reference on how the tone and mood that I want to use in my animation project.

I watch Krampus again for the Omi's flashback scene. I make a colour script to see overall mood and analysis this stop motion and cut out animation. It use a warm and cold colour to bring the mood of cold and hopeless in this flashback. They start this story with the grey tone and started to develop more warm colour in the next scene. I can feel the emotion that they want to show in each part of this picture by playing with light and colour to reflect the shadow of each character. The usage of cut out puppet as second character bring the evil aura in this movie. The movement each character also help to make this story to stand apart from the movie itself.


Character turnaround for two main character for my story.

After this slide, I will add with another animated video that using metaphor and also use animation as an awareness campaign. I choose to put the animated video of "The Scarecrow" about how everyone now are not mind about the food they took into their body.



I need to find new information on how to reconnect this two presentation so the audience could understand the relation between this two slide presentation. I want to show my animation that want to help others using the silhouette character and brush stroke background. Why I choose to make my character to be black because of the influence that I adapt from the famous cut out animation artist 'Lotte Reiniger'.



I also need to refine my whole story and try again the combination of silhouette character and brush stroke background. I want the silhouette character reflect the emotion of loneliness and the colour background to help the flow of my story. The study of silhouette by playing with light and shadow give an outstanding emotion and meaning. I want to highlight the character not by it individuality but by it motion and gesture to make us understand the message.



After I have an interview with Shelter Scotland, I also have ask if I can test my final project as one of their campaign and they seem interested with my idea. So, I think it also one of my method to prove my hypothesis about using metaphor in my animated film.