Becoming too reliant and emotionally attached to your personal computer

clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from digitalmedia.massey.ac.nz clipped from digitalmedia.massey.ac.nz Mark clipped from digitalmedia.massey.ac.nz Tylr Tylr was always going to be fun to design simply because he�s so accessorised and I could make a lot of bad jokes with his labels and gear. clipped from digitalmedia.massey.ac.nz Interaction The most interesting part of this animation was always going to be the interaction between the two characters: how they related to one another and reacted to each other. The movement was intended to be realistic even though I initially imagined it to be extreme like in anime and manga. clipped from digitalmedia.massey.ac.nz Others Even the couch deserves at least a little animation clipped from digitalmedia.massey.ac.nz Boys The fun is in animating! If there were scenes where I could envision two or more different movements working then I would animate them. Sometimes they would be quite cool but not suit the voice acting so it had to be chopped.

RAM (Random Access Memory) is an animation about becoming too reliant and emotionally attached to your personal computer. It is an exaggeration of my research on recent trends of dependency and attachment found in children for their PCs, especially in the US and UK. The animation centres on the interaction between two boys, Mark and Tylr, while the technical focus of the piece is on animation, particularly facial animation. The style of the piece is based on Japanese anime, which has already been used for many technological and sci-fi series, and is born from a country famous for its technophilia and tendency to use technology for fun and companionship. The voice actors I used were children I overheard at a comic book store, and while most of the dialogue is scripted, I also made use of excess recordings that were just too lol to not use. Enjoy! XD Caroline Ting