Animation Lecture.

This was incredibly interesting lecture. Although I'm an animation student my knowledge of the history of animation was not very wide. The lecture covered a relatively in depth chronology of animation from birth to present day. The term animation comes from the latin "to give life" which is the key aspect of the art, to create some that not only move but to make it do so in a believable manor. The routes of animation start with illustrative and sequential drawings which can be found in cave paintings and ancient Egyptian texts. Animation forest started in the early-mid 19th century, out not as films but in the forms in odd devices that flickered sets of images in different ways to make them appear as though they moved. These were luxury items and were only found among the rich. The first animation captured in film first emerged in the early 20th century but was very rudimentary and experimental it was generally considered as high art. Animation started progressing into a more palatable commercial genre, started a period know as "the golden age of animation" stretching from 1928-1957. It was during this time where people such as disney started building fundamental rules of motion that could be universally applied to animation to create results people would enjoy watching far more. Following the rises successes of animation in this period spawned the "TV age" of animation where producers realised the potential of animation in TV. The pace in which content must be produced for TV is a lot more demanding so they way animators worked had to be reconfigured to make animation palatable for the media type. Coming to the end of the TV age computer technology started to advance rapidly which gave way to countless new animation tools. This shaped the journey animation has taken since is birth is what has shaped it into what it is today.
I feel the main point I took away from this lecture is the importance of remembering the initial point is to give life. An animation with bad movement will not captivate an audience as it will appear dead. Another is that the evolution of animation has made it extremely popular as a form of entertainments but the roots of animation are as an art and is still in many instances still carried out for that purpose.