{"id":885,"date":"2011-07-28T21:39:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T03:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=885"},"modified":"2011-10-18T20:36:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T02:36:13","slug":"885","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2011\/07\/885\/","title":{"rendered":"David Wolter&#8217;s &#8220;Eyrie&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across David Wolter&#8217;s short film, Eyrie, and I think it&#8217;s pretty impressive. Check it out below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q5jcSCDr2BM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"460\" height=\"264\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The animation and overall design isn&#8217;t all that refined, but the short still works&#8230; and quite well I must say. I think the obvious lesson here is the importance of story and how it should be the driving force for any project. You don&#8217;t need a sexy look and perfect animation to resonate with an audience &#8211; the first thing should always be the actual content (I always go back to South Park as a perfect example of this).<\/p>\n<p>A secondary lesson here is the importance of music, particularly in animation. There isn&#8217;t a word of dialogue in the film; and while the emotions are well conveyed visually, the score does a great job of solidifying the tone throughout. I don&#8217;t think the film would have come off as well without it. It not only complements the short but enhances it, and that should be the goal when considering music in a project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across David Wolter&#8217;s short film, Eyrie, and I think it&#8217;s pretty impressive. Check it out below. The animation and overall design isn&#8217;t all that refined, but the short still works&#8230; and quite well I must say. I think the obvious lesson here is the importance of story and how it should be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animation","tag-south-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}