Friday, February 6, 2015

Animation's Petrified Unrest by Esther Leslie

Animation's Petrified Unrest by Esther Leslie in Pervasive Animation book
Notes
Many discussions of Reynaud who invented the praxiniscope but later built the theatre obtique which expanded to become the pre-cinema animation projection machine. (page 75 on)
Page 76: "animation is ... movement set in relation to stillness"
Page 79: kinaesthetic vision: the vision we use in the world, ie, using all our senses. In drawing, this is suggested through motion lines.
Page 83: Marx and depreciation of the self, ie: workers represented by their hands rather than as people. Also discusses how people in animation expresses as, or reduced to, symbols and lines (ie: exclamation marks).
Page 86: Marey's device with rotating shutter for multiple short exposures on one frame, 1882.
Page 85 to end, discussion of starting/stopping or still/movement of body when running, eyes when looking, and many other things.

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