Awareness Post on Robert Valley

I first came across Valley's work randomly on social media and was immediately captivated by his stylistic choices: the vibrant color palette, the angular lines, the expressive figure poses, the list goes on. His animation style infuses life into its characters through facial exaggerations, dynamic viewing angles, and aggressive shadows and contrast. He has work featured on Netflix, as he was responsible for directing Love, Death, and Robots' Zima Blue. Zima Blue being a sci-fi animation about an artist's reflection on their life's work. For my own work, I'd like to replicate Valley's evident mastery of the human form and his subsequent manipulation to it. By understanding the limits to which the human figure can be altered and still resemble a regular human, one can experiment with intense expression and feelings otherwise difficult to illustrate with just words and facial expressions (this can be exemplified by the ecstasy shown in the third image below, though facial expressions play a crucial role the exaggeration of the bodies adds a layer of fluidity to the piece).