Professional Project Review - "Life"

For this post I watched the CGI animated short film "Life" by PixelHunters. The short follows an unnamed man in a futuristic mech suit on a desolate planet. Throughout the whole short, a voice, assumed to be the person shown in blue, narrates about life and his past. It shows flashbacks to him in battles with other people in mech suits, and eventually shows him at a gate which opens to yet another red-mech suited person. There is a moment of suspense, but then there is a plot twist where a sign is shown that says "Congrats, you're retired!", and the main character is shown smiling and the short ends. The principles of design for my area of focus would be 3D modeling, animation techniques like ease-in ease-out, and general story and plot portions. One element from this I would apply to my own work is its use of slow motion and zoom to create dramatic effect on one small thing. One thing I have already learned that was in this film is designing and modeling backdrops. Based on best practice, this creator did a good job of creating a story that brought interest. One thing they could have done better is that some of the scenes were blurry or low resolution, probably a problem in rendering.