Article Questions

Question1: Article “Introduction to Animation Studies”. Is animation more on the “mimesis” end of the spectrum of film or is it more “abstract”? Is animation a combination of the both?

Question 2: Article “Digital Cinema and the History of a Moving Image”. How did digital filmmaking create a mixture of animation and live-action? How has it impacted animation?

Answer: Digital film takes on all of the basics of live action film they have real live actors in a real setting. Still it transforms that traditional style into an abstract concept like animation. In the article it says, “As, a result, while retaining the visual realism unique to the photographic process, film obtains a plasticity that was previously only possible in painting or animation.” Cinema today is a mixture of reality enhanced by animation it borrows the techniques of drawing and creating. Transformers the movie is the perfect example of how animation and reality in cinema have blended together seamlessly. Digital film creates a perfect bond of animation and reality; the film can be changed in the computer and have completely created elements placed into a reality. Cinema gave animation a chance to thrive and become a popularly used media. By using it in films that are not considered animated in any way breaks the barrier that was placed on it by early cinema. The mingling of animation and cinema becomes a pseudo reality that leaves the viewer trying not to believe the unbelievable.

Question 3: “Second Earth”. How would Google Earth and Second Life become the “metaverse” described in the article? Also how would people react to having an animated version of themselves in an animated “mirror world”?