Steve Cutts

The first time i watched his animation is when i arrived Uk and download the Youtube. I don’t remember which viedo i watched that time but after that video.  Steve Cutts’s short film named Man began to show by itself. And it appealed to my eyes. After watching it, i always think about  the plots of that short film.

So this wasthe first time i began to know his work, but not his name.

After many days, i watched his another short film named In the Fall on the YouTube.

And recently， i watched his another short film named Are You Lost In The World Like Me?

I find they have the same style of drawing, so i want to research them. What amazing is when i am researching them,  i find they have the same animator——————–Steve Cutts.

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Just like the remarks of the magazine above, this man is really good try to use animation to show the ironical situation we are facing now.  Sometimes use animation to show some thoughtful things will be much better. Because animation can exaggerate some emotions, feelings and actions. That will give audience a deeper effect. So let us see, how this animator show ironical situations to audience.

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Virtual Information Time:

With the development of phones and computers, no one can leave digital media products. If someone does not answer the phone and does not update his lives on the Internet, most of people will think this person has some bad things or even died. In the past, we only have fixed telephone in the house, we have to wait for the phone and can not leave the house. That is inconvenient. Now, we are convenient, but there are also many problems.

The animator tries to focus on the people’s numbness and apathy in the real world. And they try to live in the virtual world. They do not care about other people who around them. They try to make themselves look good in the virtual world, not care much more in the real world. This short film has a style of Disney.

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Human and Environment:

This is also a hot topic since we have industry and pollute the environment. But the animator give a new way to show them.

 

The story began in the 500,000 years ago and ended in the future time. There is a man he is always walking in the animation, so happy and relax. However when he is walking, he will do some bad things to the lives in the earth. In the beginning, he stepped on a worm, use snakes to make shoes for himself. With he walking longer and longer, his desire be bigger and bigger. He ask more and more things and lives from the earth. Finally,  he is a king in the rubbish and the aliens come to the earth, they feel angry about this man. In the end, they kill the man.

I really like the way of talking story. Happy characters do bad things make the story more ironical.

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Dull Work: 

This topic is also hot. Because more and more people works like a robot. Their work does not have many chances to think, they just repeat, repeat and repeat. I think this job named ‘robot job’, because you do not know when, you will be instead into robots and lose your jobs.

 

The man accidentally fall from the building. At first, he is afraid of death and want to be saved. But in the fall he thinks about his whole life’s best bits, he find his life be the same after he beginning to work. In the end, he thinks death maybe not bad and peacefully waits for the falling’s ending. So death is not terrible, what’s terrible is boring life. This is a really interesting short film idea.