Animation Technique and Style

Sand animation is something I normally would look over or forget about when talking about stop motion. These past few classes we have been talking a lot about different animators within children's media, masters of animation, and women in media. Each animator has their own type of animation technique as well as their own specific style of animation to go along with it. Today we examined the works of Caroline Leafand Wendy Tilby. The significance of todays class was to examine some very obscure types of animation which I found very interesting. These included some stop motion sand animation and some scratching of 75mm film celluloid. I had seen some sand animation before on Vimeo and a few other times before today. The scratching of the 75mm was something very distinct that I had never seen before and I was very impressed by that style and technique. It created a very different viewing world. Very chopping and quick. It left you in a state that made you feel as if you were watching a dream. It was very interesting indeed. I hope that we get around to seeing a few different types of animation as the semester goes on. I'm sure there are a lot of styles I am unfamiliar with!