"How did they do that?"

While I've enjoyed all the different kinds of animation we've seen in class, I didn't focus very closely on the stories that were being told as I was busy contemplating and trying to work out in my head how these films were made. With the films that used sand animation, even though the actual images could be considered a bit unpolished (especially in Peter and the Wolf), I was still amazed at how clean the outlines were for each figure.  Not only when the figures were made with sand, but especially when they weren't made of anything at all, like this scene from The Owl Who Married a Goose.

Moving around the few grains of sand that made up his face for each frame must have been really tedious.

For the paint on glass technique used in The Street, I can't imagine the amount of pre-planning necessary to get the pseudo-camera movements to be so fluid. And in Two Sisters, I'm sure one bad scratch could ruin the film. 

One of the reasons I love seeing new (at least to me), unique, and unusual animation techniques is because it's almost like being a little kid and seeing a really amazing magic trick; I can't help but be amazed by it and wonder, "How in the heck did they do that?!?"