April Fools!

Bill Plympton "The Fan and the Flower". open of a house, discusses a ceiling fan. it was lonesome, awww. a bird tempts it with friendship but flies away. the old lady buys a potted plant. it falls in love, showing off his blade and showed off his light beam. very sensual. the plant played hard to get. but she could not resist his big blades, so she opened her flower for him. sadly the relationship never reached a physical level. the plant shows off her flowers and he sent breezes. the old lady, became senile and forgot to water the plant. and the fan got dusty. the plant eventually dies and the fan spins uber fast. and the fan flies through the ceiling. but his death gave the plant water... the girl plant worked the poor man fan to death... typical. and the plant evidently was pregnant and had a fan flower.
i liked the animation. it was black and white with a very distinct style. it looked hand drawn and i enjoyed that. it had character. only the flower had colors. the simple colors worked amazingly well.

The second animation we viewed was Adam Phillips called "Bitey" and the story "Little Foot". bitey runs thorugh a field of grass roaring. lots of camera movement, closeup angles and pans of a water fall scene. with a moving leaf? a child bitey fall down a hill chasing the leaf thing. now i guess bitety is throwing rocks and sees a spider, fercious looking. he pokes at it with a stick. bitey the kinda unicorn hairy thing. now the little hair ball is back and hears noises. and he sees a farting bird. he sees bitey coming and he runs, but now very well. bitey jumps over over him and stops him and little hairy guy attacks him and rips his face. but big hairy guy comes to save its kid.
bitey throws grass at him and laughs. so hairy guy hurls a rock, to no avail but little hairy knocks bitey out. it ends with creepy looking things.

this animation was okay. i felt that it lacked soul or character. it was funny though, but i felt that it had nothing special. it looked amazing and very well done, clearly he has talent. but it seemed to me, to lack "soul".