For my Final Blog Specimens, I chose the following blog posts:

1.)  The first blog post I chose is called “Father and Daughter Animation.”  I chose this animation because I greatly enjoyed watching this animation and appreciated how the animation was able to convey such a beautiful story though very simple line drawings, shadows, lack of dialogue and lack of facial expressions to convey emotion.  It reminded me a little of the “Prince Achmed” animation from class because of its use of shadows and simplicity.  Here is the link to the post:

http://animationayshun.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/father-and-daughter-animation-blog-8-2/

2.)  The second blog post I chose is called “Coraline.”  This post is my most recent and is one of my favorites because I had not previously looked so closely at stop motion animation before we discussed this movie in class.  After our class discussion, I went back to Youtube and found a couple of videos that showed the extremely detailed and meticulous process that was done to make Coraline in stop motion.  I found a video on an overall outlook on the production with commentary included by the author Neil Gaiman.  I also found a video that looked at the making of facial expressions alone, and also a video dealing with the making of the super tiny clothing for the characters in the movie.  Here is the link to the post:

http://animationayshun.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/coraline-blog-13/