Initially, I was intrigued by the minimalist nature of website. And being in the animation category my hopes were high. However, it falls short, due to the lack some of the simplest factors of interaction. First, the viewer is confronted by a large gray page, with large, centered, japanese script. Having no other means of progressing further, the viewer is forced to click on the script. This introduces the viewer to more script. However it is still in japanese, so I didn't know what it meant or what it was trying to introduce. Perhaps if the text was understandable it would have put the animation that follows in some sort of context, rather than merely a random "fight". Because that is all it was; two colored figures, one orange, one blue, duking it out for around a minute. And after the fight, nothing was reconciled. Credits rolled, and the page was then redirected back to the beginning. A loop? Seemingly a dead end. I consulted their home page at www.threecolor.com, but nothing was offered there either. So overall, whatever someone would take away from the site would be weak, because I would not really consider it interactive at all. There is a button, but there are no choices someone can make, making it painfully short and linear.
posted by cehannon @ 6:39 PM
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