Doll Face

Andy Huang directed Doll Face when he was a student in the University of Southern California. He. This is one of my favorite animation short films. It’s a 3-D animation film mix with live acting. The style of the work looks very contemporary. An animated TV set with real life TV show images on it. The space takes place in a gray lab, factory like place. A silver metal box sits on the right corner of the frame. A spider like robot comes out from the box, it has a female face. The robot keep putting make up on to make her self looks like the face percent on TV. She ends up drag her body so far from the box. She destroyed herself with a half human face.
This is an animation that grabs my imagination. This is a nice finished animation with deep ironic thought. It reminds me Viktor Shklovsky's Theory of Ostranenie (“making it strange,” or defamiliarization). In seminal essay “Art as Technique” (1917),Shkovsky argues that: "The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of
things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique
of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar,’ to make forms difficult to increase
the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception
is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged." (Shklovsky 16)
Seems “Doll face” Takes place in an animated space. Huang use very simple element. A robot and a TV, fade out space. The way Andy Huang analyzes the creative elements and story structure, link this animation piece with audience life experiences in modern society. It was accepted into the Official Selection at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France, as well as the Electronic Theater at SIGGRAPH 2006 in Boston.