The main idea for this article is should animators put adult imagery such as gore, blood, sexual imagery, and violence in their animation. The article provides support such as the type of animating job you want to have, either making bloody animation in a game or a learning video for kids. Even the audience you are trying to target with your animation. It’s also about the thought of just simply the type of animation you are putting out there in the world.
Critique: this is a good source of information because it tells the reader what choices they have if they want to put animation to put adult imagery in there animation or not. The information is useful to me because I am going to make both child and adult orientated animations.
Article: Staying Fresh: Keeping Yourself, Your Demo Reel and Your Portfolio Up to Date
This article is about keeping up to date with the animation software around you by continuous learning about animation so you don’t get left behind. The article says you can do this by advancing in the animating software you are using. The article also states that you should learn more about animation so you can update your portfolio and get better jobs in the future. It also implies that if you stop learning in animation from time to time, the techniques you know will become obsolete and out of date.
Critique: this is important information to animators because if they didn’t know about this they would slowly get worse in their job and would unable to keep up with the current animation