I never thought the reason I'd finally make an account here would be to revive the RCDart thread, but here we are.
The Strawberry video is finally upon us:
https://vimeo.com/266200432
I know I'm late to the party, but I mean, as I see it, although the animation was pretty lazy and looked more like
slightly moving pictures more than an animation, it visually wasn't the worst. (Also, as others have said, the music is nice.) What made it the worst, was the storyline.
It doesn't have an idea it wants to convey. Why is she a wrestler? What purpose does her strength play in the story? What is this hot mess even about?? I thought of a quick fix in like, under a minute:
It centres on the idea that no matter how strong you are, if you don't have financial power in a marriage you lose control of your life. (I know, I'm no fun at parties, but first thing I thought of to add meaning to why her primary trait is strength, and why his primary trait is money.)
Keeping the first wrestling sequence + seeing Mr Moneybags for the first time the same (although his design would be less sympathetic if he had a weedy and tall snobby gentleman look? If you used a thin inverted triangle silhouette and angular lines it would create a nice contrast with Strawberry's design).
Except the money montage ends with them in a jewelry shop and him buying a gold choker for her and putting it around her neck and it as it snaps shut, so it likens to a collar or something, and cut to a depressing scene where she's in some dark squalid kitchen washing the dishes or something. The /this isn't what I wanted/. And then do the shadow thing except instead of the tiger it's an enlarged shadow of him from another room, asking her when she'll finish up or something. But instead she packs up and leaves (and abandons her new expensive possessions and takes her old ones, not the other way around. Except the tiger. That's ok. Lol.) And then the same scene at the end with /this isn't what I wanted....but it's better/. The open scenery and sky help convey her new freedom.
Now she doesn't look like a massive cunt for leaving him and the story has a purpose??? Magic.