In class 5, we watched many animation created by different shape and line in class. They are very abstract and hard to understand. However, compare to the animation we watched in previous classes , they have sound and music. The movement of the shape and line were following the rhythm and the beat of the background music , it feels like the creator show the music and what we can hear into visual art. It is very different from the general animation and cartoon we watch.
Those animations opened my eyes, it shows that animation can be more than just storytelling. The simple movement of the shapes and line with different color use can express emotion and something invisible. Additionally, it also remain us the basic of visual elements colors, line, pattern and shape are already the best and simple things to express our idea in visual way.
At the beginning, I have no idea why those creator would make those nonsense shape animations and started wondering that it is because I am not born in that age so i didn’t understand those animations. However, after I keep watching those animation, I realised that actually those animations are very similar to the motion graphic these days, and they are widely used in many music video and advertisement. It make everything more vivid and interesting.
ANIM223 - HISTORY OF ANIMATION - FALL 2019 