E4 Research - PES

After speaking with my teacher to get more ideas for my E4 ident, he recommended me to look at PES, whom of which I have never heard of. I came across this one first:

           

This animation is called "Fresh Guacamole" which involves chopping up 'ingredients' from avocados to soccer balls, to golf balls and dices. The list goes on and even though it sounds really bizarre, it is so great to look at and the whole time I watched it I was thinking "I would never have thought of that!". PES uses the technique of stop motion but it looks so smooth and fluid that sometimes I had to double check if he even WAS doing it in stop motion! I also really love the whole aesthetic of this animation. The saturation is obviously bumped up and therefore the colours used like in the plasticine of the avocado, are very vibrant, but in a good way! It adds to the exaggeration of the piece and just in general looks really high quality. I would love to try something like this, so it is definitely something I am keeping close to mind.

          

This next animation by "PES" is entitles 'Submarine Sandwich' and unlike the vibrant "Fresh Guacamole" this video isn't as vibrant but instead has an antique look to it, which is equally as aesthetically pleasing! Instead of guacamole, this video entails the animator making a sandwich, but it embodies the same concept of using random object as the ingredients. I'm not sure which animation I like better, but just the concept in general is so fascinating and is motivating me to get starting with making my E4 ident! 

                         

Then lastly, I wanted to blog about "Coinstar" by PES, because the end result of the collection of coins looks absolutely amazing! I don't think I would ever have the patience to put so many coins together to make something look so realistic! But I really admire it, and I really love watching it all come together. Again, like all other PES animations, the stop motion is so fluid that sometimes I have to wonder whether it is actually in fact stop motion, and I would say this is very hard to achieve.

Overall I think PES is going to greatly influence this part of the brief in terms of my E4 Ident simply because I am so taken by it, and how creative it is that it has motivated me to challenge myself a bit more for this project!