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For this week’s post, I found Youie Cho’s looking outwards post in week 5 to be particularly interesting because it had Baby Groot, my favorite Guardians of the Galaxy character. The artwork in focus is the computer graphics work of Framestore, a collective of film, advertising, and content artists. Like Youie, I’m also inspired and impressed by the attention to detail and careful development in putting Baby Groot’s animated character into the context of the movie, down to the details of its walking patterns and speed. I especially love how Framestore extensively researched the characteristics of babies and children when imagining Baby Groot’s character. Being aware of the these “behind-the-scenes” processes in Baby Groot’s character development enables viewers to make a more humanistic connection to the character in the movie and makes Baby Groot even more lovable.

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