It was interesting to hear where an animation artist gets their motivation for their work. It was creative for him to take ideas from the current events happening while he was in school. A lot of what Matt Sheridan was saying I could not connect with. For example his ideas stemmed from serious disasters such as 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina. However his thoughts were immature and not as serious concepts. Since those events were prevalent in his life at the time his feelings were all impacted by what was happening around him.
It was funny to me how he talked about his work as well. Synthesis, one of his pieces, received different responses. People either loved it or they hated it. Personally I thought it was a successful piece incorporating color and texture. Since it was only 2 minutes long the elements he incorporated in it were successful.
The animation that really caught my attention was "Curse of the Paper Tigers". This was a recent piece he created in August 2011 while thinking of Iraq and the war that our country has been in for years. The simplicity of the shapes really brought me back to multi-media where we learned how to give attitude to an object. This was an awesome concept because even though the viewer doesn't know what the characters are, they still have tremendous emotions.
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