Rollin’ Tortoise teaches design principles

  • This is a silly animated children’s movie.
  • This is a comedy for all ages.
  • This is a portfolio presentation spotlighting the quality and creativity of the development house’s animation department.
  • This is a design creativity exercise on the consequences of all animals becoming round and inflated like kickballs.
  • This is an exercise in patience.
  • This is an animator’s illustration of how many minutes of footage in a feature length film can be filled with the same clip of animation over and over without losing the audience.
  • This is a Foley artist’s class on using unexpected sounds as tools of comedy.
  • This is yet another color study on the use of teal and orange in film.
  • This is a meditation tool asking you to live in the moment for an hour and a half or risk missing out. YOLO, tortoise.
  • This is a cognitive science lesson on how it’s not the payoff that generates the dopamine, it’s the suspense.
  • This is an artist’s lesson on the power of the frame and canvas.
  • This is a filmmaker’s lecture on the consequences of tight framing.
  • This is a director’s seminar on timing and ensuring the action moves just fast enough to not lose the audience, but not a moment faster.
  • This is a web designer’s lecture on the power of distraction — inside the frame and out in the user’s real world.
  • This is a brilliant illustration of the user’s need to rewind and control any video with obvious and accessible video tools (looking at you Instagram and Tiktok you bastards).
  • This is a textbook example of Theater of the Absurd.

 

  • To the plant, this is a horror film.

What will your work convey today? To whom? Was it intentional?