Visual Language: Take 5 Thought of You

The animation Thought of You is I feel an excellent example of a sound animation. A song plays while an animation happens on screen. I feel the narrative can be interpreted in different ways basically a male character dances with a female character. I interpreted the narrative as the man is always so close yet so far from the woman, he can never actually touch her, she throughout the animation is represented as a cloud/ghost like figure that is always in view but is never a solid.

I really like the animation because I have always thought often the animation side of an animation is fifty percent of what makes up an animation. the other fifty percent is sound. What I love about this animation is that not only do we watch the relationship of two characters on screen flow beautifully alongside each other, but we also see the relationship between sound and visuals flow beautifully together.

Just like the song, there is nothing clunky in the animation. Everything flows really nicely and even though the characters appear 3D (even though there drawn in a loose 2D format) they can dissolve and melt into liquids within seconds. In that sense the animation is quite surreal yet I feel because of the music and the excellent timing of the animation you never question the man morphing into a larger object because it happens in time to the music getting louder for example.