With Gretchen’s Characters it is very easy to tell who is the hero and the villain because of the Color used with them. While the characters do have an affinity to them because they both have a similar Hue, specifically blue, that is the only way, the rest is contrast. For example, the brightness of Aqua girls costume shows us that she is the hero. The saturation of her costume helps accentuate the brighter blue. Evaporation Girl’s costume, on the other hand, is a darker blue and appears to be mixed with a bit of black. The specific way the saturation of her costume is set up gives the impression that she is the villain.
Something else that helps contrast the two of them are the body types and physical appearance. Aqua girl looks rather human with a pinkish skin tone and a human shaped body. Evaporation Girl though, has a much paler complexion, which to me makes me think of someone who spends a lot of time in the dark and gives off a hint of being evil as well. Along with the complexion, her body type seems much stranger than that of Aqua girl. Her feet are strangely shaped and, to me at least, appear to give her a more fluid like shape. All of this combined gives her a feel of something not quite human, and this helps contrast her to aqua girl and makes her feel a bit more like the villain between the two of them.
The second Hero/Villain I'm critiquing is Megan Kirn's
Megan’s villain and hero animations didn’t have than many color differences, but it was still easy to tell who the villain was and who the hero was because of the way their movement and actions. B-girl’s movement is much more fluid and relaxed; one to accentuate that fact that she dances a lot but also to give a sense of being easily approachable, as a hero should be. Her, smoother movements also gives a sense of a lighter weight to her movements as well. Handel’s honey on the other hand has a much stiffer movement and walk. This stiffness gives us an idea of what her personality is like. B-girls video also gives examples of overlapping-movement because, when the attacker jumps on screen, they are both moving at the same time.
There is a major amount of contrast between the two characters in the videos as well. One of the major examples is the fact that B-girl only acted in violence in self-defense while Handel’s Honey simply attacked someone without provocation. This also shows that characters as the villain and as the hero, the hero would never attack first, while a villain would do whatever they pleased. Now, while they are very different, they also have a bit of an affinity for each other. They both have a link to music, but even this leads to a contrast; B-girl likes music and actually uses it as a weapon, while Handel’s honey, while liking music, does not like the kind of music B-girl does, and actually destroys music.
The final Hero/Villain I'm critiquing is Katie Macks
Katie Mack’s characters are very easy to tell apart when it comes to who is the villain and who is not for a few reasons, but mainly it’s the color. It’s easy to see that Psycho is the villain because the hues used in his colors are much darker than that of Sonica. Specifically, Psycho has a mainly black and purple color scheme, which definitely shows his “evilness”. Also accentuating this is the purity of the colors; all of them are almost just that color, which in my opinion gives the idea that he is pure evil. This is in stark contrast to Sonica, who has a very vibrant and warm yellow color scheme. The blue of her gloves and boots simply accentuate the yellow of her costume.
There is actually an affinity between the two characters as well. Because each of the characters has a large amount of purity in the colors they use, it makes me think of it as a comparison between the pure good and pure evil. This kind of accentuates the link between these two characters
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