Animation Deconstruction

The two animation characters that I chose are from the movie Monsters Inc. The names of the characters are Sully and Randal. Sully is the bigger blue monster and Randal is the purple smaller and skinnier one. Out of the two Sully is the good one in the movie while Randal is on the evil side. When looking at the color or the hue for them they have a similar purple to them but Sully is bluer. I think that creates a link between them they are both monsters but yet they are different at the same time. More people like the color blue so that would make people want to like Sully more and plus he is the good guy. When looking at the brightness of the colors in the characters Sullies color is more bright than Randal’s. Showing he is nicer and has a kinder side and that he is not dark like Randal. When looking at saturation Randal’s color look way more saturated than Selleys does. With the saturation the color becomes darker making Randal look more mysterious and dangerous when you first look at him. Then Sully’s color isn’t that saturation so he won’t have that mysterious/evil effect people may get when looking at Randal. When looking at lighting for the characters Sully would for sure have better lighting than Randal in the movie. But when looking at the picture Randal looks like he has more shadows that Sully does to show that he is a shady character. Shadows symbolize darkness and evil so naturally Randal wouldn’t be lit as well as Sully. Sully wouldn’t have many shadows because he is nice and doesn’t have shady areas when it comes to the well being of others. There is a lot of symbolism in these characters. The lighting can show it all with just being bright over a character like Sully to symbolize that he isn’t the bad guy here. When looking at the mood you get a good and happy mood from Sully because he isn’t in the shadows and it brightly lite. When Randal is in the shadows and has shadows cast over him shifting the mood when we see him. We get this uneasy feeling because we aren’t sure what evil deed he is going to do next and we are worried for anyone who tries to stop him.