Happy Giraffe

Adding audio to my animation made it easier to tell the story I developed in my triptychs.  Explanations are unnecessary when the audio is connecting the dots.

Happiness isn't Happiness Without a Talking Giraffe Animation

I think changing the triptych into a video allowed me to create the scene and set up for the "punch line" more effectively.

Happiness isn't Happiness Without a Talking Giraffe

Triptych

The speech bubbles are the main focus of each of the panels in my triptych.  These words come from the Calvin and Hobbes comic published on April 5th, 1991 (my birthday).  I have always been proud that this philosophical excerpt into Calvin and Hobbes' lives was published on my birthday, and this project gave me the opportunity to express my thoughts.  Calvin believes he has discovered the key to happiness.   He thinks that if he ignores all bad things, his life he will remain forever positive.  Hobbes tries to bring him back to reality by revealing that technique is actually called denial and it's quite irresponsible.  Calvin's decides to follow his new desire to be happy and ignores Hobbes' negative remark.

I sided with Calvin and chose to step into the world of denial and ignore all the negative things there are in the universe.  My triptych reveals the things in life that make me the happiest.  Though the images seem random they are all important and meaningful to me.  There is Maroon 5 cover art, giraffes for my sister, evidence of my Oregon Duck fandom, toast, Winnie the Pooh, Simba, and the main background is a page from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.  All these things combine to create three blissful images that I can always look at to forget the bad.