#thethoughtofyou

Thought of You (2010) by Ryan Woodward

This 2D short animated film is beyond my expectation. From the cover its just too simple to attract our eyes, because we get used with the thought that elaborate animation with grand and full colour animations are the ones that are great, but this animation proved me wrong, it changes my perspective and appreciate 2D animation more. Not only that 2D animation are more simple than 3D animation, this animation is way more simple than most 2D animation I know. It is simple in the visual but clearly story and the way they made it wasn’t easy at all.

This animation has a romance musical genre. The characters are a boy in black lines and a girl in a white almost luminous lines. They dance and through that dance they tell about a story. From what I get about the story is that the two of them is not with each other anymore. With the opposite colour they have it seems like the scene where they dance with the each other is a memory from the boy when they were together, because the colour made the girl looks like she’s from a different world. The last scene is where the girl suddenly turns color into the same as the boy but then the boy left her. So I guess that is the moment they first separate. People get this idea that when couple break up, girls tend to cry first but then they move on, but with boys they’ll distract themselves and thought of break up as a liberation but then they started to feel the sadness later on. I think that is the story that this animation. Ryan Woodward himself said that people can interpret the story freely but the main message that he was trying to tell is the feeling of longing or missing someone close to your heart.