Fatty issue is a hand-drawn 2D animated short film by Candy Guard. The story of the film is that a woman asks her boyfriend if she is fat. When he replies, ‘not really’ she decides to go on a diet. After this decision, she makes excuses to indulge in the snacking, and this leads to her breakdown. Finally, she gives in altogether.
Guard’s characters are minimally drawn. However, these are rich observed comic skits on women’s everyday experiences. The drawings are elementary, boil animation in a cartoony style with loose lines. This technique helps Guard bring the narration forward, and this focuses the audience on the story. The drawing is very flat and 2D based to show quick humour from the characters in the film.
Each cartoon shows a dry, observational sense of humour. Guard’s dialogue seems plucked from everyday conversations: much of the comedy derives from a fast-paced delivery of utterly mundane material, with one true-to-life exchanges being rattled off after the other. http://msenscene.com/tag/animation/
The drawings in the shots are loose and pored-down and befit every woman even though the characters do not look like women. Guard has drawn her characters with beak-nosed feature and wearing clothes to help identify them. The simple visual style and stylised characters invite the identification of the audience with every women protagonist.
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