ENGFLM 0530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Phenakistoscope, Jerky, Praxinoscope
6 Apr 2018
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Film ch 10 notes: the language of animation: Animation vs. live action has narrowing difference in age of cgi action films. The art of the impossible (even if it looks very realisitc) Animation mostly uses artificailly created movements instead of transferring movement from the natural world. What happens between each frame is more important than what happens in each frame. Modern computers help keep realistic elements consistent frame to frame like shading, keeping virtual movement possible within laws of physics. Key characteristics of animation: symbolisation of objects and human beings. Animation distinct because movement dependent on the viewer watching it. The pictures weren"t actually moving, but the human ability to process fast image as movement brings it to life. Comic strips provided vocab and precedents for animation like thought bubbles . Animated documentaries: when can"t have real footage, estimate what happened. Incoherent cinemas: french films animated random shapes flowing into each other, overlapping, absurd, spontaneous, funny scenes.
