Plastic Selves.

This is a short animation I put together at the end of my first year in Vis Com.

The brief I wrote was to challenge peoples perspectives and stereotypes of The Barbie Doll. Is she all good?

The idea for my animation came from my negative attitude towards the doll culture and how dolls and 'The Barbie' can bring fun and comfort to young girls, but how they can also create or be victimizing to females.

My animation challenges whether Barbie is a good influence on the young people that purchase them and provokes the idea that many young girls who are fed this unhealthy body image by Barbie, then go on to aquire eating disorders and even plastic surgery to get that idealistic look.

Looking back at it now....it's shockingly shit, but this was my first attempt ever at any kind of video. I learnt a lot throughout the process, like final cut express, after effects, how to manipulate the video equipment and how to approach a stop-motion animation in the correct way.