Wednesday, 31 January 2018

NEXT-GEN Nescot week 11 - Animation (SCP Special by 'Lord Bung')

(Disclaimer: this blog post is to review an animation that I enjoy, therefore none of the images are my own designs and I encourage you to go see the original artist. Also the song shown in the video is 'In the Pines' by Danny Farrant.)

Animation used:
Confinement Special - In the Pines (an SCP Animation) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Md9qwWQBI

SCP-217 (http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-217)
This animation is made by the youtuber "Lord Bung" who specialises in creating animations with one of their series being about the "SCP Foundation." The SCP Foundation is a fake government website that is considerd a wiki page with an insane amount of mythical, dangerous and rather weird monsters. Therefore the animaions of this website are often horror based.
This episode in particuar is a special episode, detailing many of the different SCPs on the website, such as SCP-217 as seen on the left. They do this while, at the same time, acting in beat with the song ('In the Pines') in the background.
SCP-079 (http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-079)

The large amount of short animations in this episode are all incredibly detailed, weird and dark in their design and imagery. It is set up in the minor introduction to the episode before showing a total of 28 SCPs throughout the video. Using fluid and smooth animation, it portrays a sense of realism and movement which makes the viewer feel imersed within the scenes. This adds to the horror filled atmosphere and giving a growing curiosity towards what the backstories are to the SCPs. This encourages the viewer to read from the SCP wiki themselves.

SCP-3560 (http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3560)
As the video progresses it slowly gets more weird and sinister to draw the viewer in, while simultaniously staying true to the original sources of the SCPs within the video. They do this by shortly showing imagery that is detailed or hinted towards by the SCP wiki. Also because of the afore mentioned encouragment to read the SCP wiki and the increasing intrigue as the animation progresses, the creator of the animation left links to the original sources in the description of their video.
Just like the creator of the animation, I too encourage you to check out the Scp Wiki (http://www.scp-wiki.net/) as they have many interesting creatures and written (fake) events.

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