Children Are Not
The class I did this for was my Intro. to Digital Media Arts class. The project was to make a short PSA with the subject of “Children are not…” My phrase was Children Are Not Collateral Damage, I had in mind what I’d been hearing from a lot of generals and the President’s men about Iraq and how the insane amount of civillians being killed was just collateral damage and that was okay. So I decided to do a cut-out puppet animation. It was actually a very simple animation since I tried to go for a very childlike style, very primative. However the hard part came from getting such a simple animation to look good. Especially with the special effects, the shaking, dust and flashing lights. It’s one of my more political works, I prefer to stay away from anything too political or too set in a time or place, but I felt this was a message that needs to be heard today…and we’ll probably have issues with collateral damage long into the future also.