By intros, I mean the short bit of opening animation that comes before actual presentations, featuring a 2D , doodled animation of the character above , who seems to be the face of the expo. Of course all the work that were featured in the expo were brilliant , there's just something very unique and interesting about the intros that had me completely drawn in. In a sense , that's probably because its a representation of animation at its purest form : simplistic hand-drawn moving images , without sound and sometime , without colours, which in my mind ( and I'm sure many other animators's as well ) , are the most pleasurable and most exciting things to do.
The other thing about having no sound its that, you have to work extra hard, to create emotions for the character , and its even harder to do it with such an abstract character like the one above , but I thought that they have done it beautifully , with very tiny little subtle movement like the changing of the shape of the eyes or the change in pose the standing pose , without having to rely on the cliche anime/manga "emoticons" (such as a cross for anger and blue lines for sad/sickness). This reminds me much of what Miyazaki did with his characters , relying on subtle movements to bring a sense of life , of realism and humanity into the character.
One more thing is , despite being done in a doodle-like art style, its done effectively and very neatly , which create a clean animation that had very interesting style rather than a half-finished one, its a style that I'm very interested in and planning to use in the upcoming project , so taking note on this an awesome way to gain knowledge. Moreover , to be a bit more specific , I loved the used of rapidly changing lines to indicate a fast movement and also, the way they animate smoke its very cool , making giant solid blocks that remains for a long time instead of light shadings or slightly transparent ( which is what I used to do ), which really create a sense of density, volume and scale
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