I've been looking at a lot of work by David O'Reilly for some inspiration with my own animation. I love the style of his work. His character designs are very basic, yet the viewer still gets drawn in by them. I think this is down to the style in which he animates in. He doesn't focus so much on the look of the animation, but more on the feel of the animation. The distorted effects may seem very random, however if you look at Please Say Something, you start to realize that it's actually a very clever and easy way of getting the emotions and feelings of the character into the viewers mind. For example, when a character is confused, sad and angry, rather than your typical cartoon-like dark cloud over their head, he places a deformed jagged animation. If the character is crying, he replaces the actual tears with the word Tears. I think this gets the viewer thinking a lot more about what is going on. This is what I ultimately want from my animation. I want to get people thinking. Rather than telling the viewer what's going on, I want them to come to their own conclusions.
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