Siri Melchior

Siri Melchior is an animator of animations both for an audience of children and kitsch commercials. Her showreel shows off her clear ability to design a wide range of characters and use a wide range of techniques.



I first was introduced to this animator during the COP module where we compared this short film with on of Kirsten Lepore's. Discussing a bit more in depth about the characters, they have so much appeal, mainly because it looks like a child has drawn them. This is something that is very common with all of Siri Melchior's work, sometimes the animation can be quite crude, especially for the ones that don't seem like she's had a big budget for. But there's always a personality trait or a beauty in the way that the characters are brought to life. In my opinion Siri Melchior's best skill is her narrative and story telling, and it might be because she has has more practice doing this, or a skill that just comes naturally. Whatever it is I'm super excited to see the full version of her latest short which only shows a snippet of the narrative of a bird who can't whistle. Wherever does he find his whistle?





This kitsch animation caught my eye with it's beautiful style which reminded me a lot of Charlie and Lola. What I like most about it, is how sounds has it's own action, like an emotion. I thought it was relevent for this module because it mimics that of emotions, with it's own colour and shape. Much like emotions have with Moom, if he was angry he'd be red with furrowed eyebrows. I think colour isn't something that I will explore this module but it's something that has potential for this module to represent certain emotions. Subconsciously they all represent something.

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