Lecture on Animation by Ranveer Nandra

This lecture was on Animation by Peter Chung, which was delivered by Ranveer Nandra. Peter studied animation at degree level at California Institute of Arts. He is an South Korean based animator and is best known for his unique style of animation as the creator and director of Aeon Flux, which is a television series for children. Chung has worked on many other famous children's TV series such as: Rugrats, Transformers and the Ring Raiders. As almost all of his work was dedicated towards children he felt limited as to what more he could create. Peter then went on to creating his own animation series which he called Aeon Flux, which he is well known for. This series had an older target audience which enabled him to work outside his comfort zone and try something different. 

Peter Chung originally began creating short clips of the duration of 5 minute, without any dialogues. This was to imply the clear message to its target audience in its most original form. The series was dedicated more towards adults as it had alot of sexuality and violence implied within it; which was the complete opposite to what he used to create before. The TV series consists of the main heroine who is named after the series itself. Aeon Flux, was a self motivated spy you are introduced to her appearance towards the middle or end of the programme. This was not a good thing that Chung did, as he broke the main 3-act series rule.The way Peter dressed his character was simply due to the fact of grabbing his viewers attention and seducing them to carry on watching more. 

Another rule Chung broke was that at the end of every series the character of Flux kept dying, this was a tragedy which was not meant to happen; as the main hero usually always overcomes his/her obstacles and survives- that is why they are called the 'main hero' of the film. However Peter also failed to do this. Gradually the series expanded into 22 minute episodes which also included dialogues to create extra emotion and arousal in the audience. In these episodes Aeon Flux also started to survive rather than die in every episode which impacts the way the audience responds to his episodes. The main purpose of his series was so that the audience can feel a connection, with the character and feel involved with whatever's going on. 

In conclusion I gained knowledge on how to animate and become successful in what you are portraying out to your audience. I also feel that Peter Chung had a fresh feel to his work as it was not seen before and this was due to the fact of him breaking the rules and experimenting with different things. By listening to Ranveer talk about this lecture on animation, it opened my eyes as to what you can create with the power of your own hands and how you can visually communicate that with your audience to get such an exciting response from each and every single one of your viewers (if done correctly that is). I was also given knowledge on all the hard work which goes into building a character, just one character, all the drawings, sketches the characters style, what type of environment they live in, who are they, who do they hang about with, what are they good at all influence the response of the audience; so it is very important all these things are taken into account and done correctly in order to get a positive feedback from your viewers.