Description:

‘Take Out Night’ is a short animated documentary about a fond and funny memory of a typical family takeaway dinner night, as told by the mother of the household. The animation adopts an illustrative style and uses a 2D ‘cut out’ animation style to visualise the spoken audio narrative. Instead of opting for a realistic style in terms of representation the animator instead portrays the family members in anthropomorphised form as different types of vegetables, reflecting their personalities through a very stylised physical appearance and engaging ‘squash-and-stretch’ style animation. Indian print patterns are incorporated into details such as wallpapers and textures, and an overall motion graphics-influenced approach guides the unfolding flow of images in the animated visual narrative.