Robyn Williams
Surprised by the succcess of K Pop Demon Hunters? You shouldn't be. Animation transformed the film industry by allowing magic to become real, right before our eyes. From the dancing brooms of Fantasia to the world of Pandora, animation has evolved from cell coloring to the most sophisticated CGI imaginable. Workers in this industry rely on graphic design principles, such as the ones learned in our program, to design clear cinematography, from the colors to the motion. Some of their sets are physical, some sets are tied to actors' wearables, and some sets exist only in the animator's imagination. Animators help story editors and script writers accomplish the gift of storytelling.
The 12 Principles of Animation - This Miniclip explores how animators bring characters and objects to life. These 12 principles of animation were first introduced by Disney animators Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas in 1981.
Monster Smash - The article highlights the global success of K-Pop Demon Hunters from Sony Pictures Animation, emphasizing its blend of K-pop music, Korean cultural elements, and animated storytelling that has captivated audiences worldwide. Topics include chart-topping original soundtrack hits, integration of Korean traditions into modern animation, and innovative choreography and character design.
On Animaniacs: FREEDOM - In a recent episode of the cult science-fiction cartoon show Rick and Morty, the titular characters--an anarchic scientist and his hapless grandson--journey to the distant planet of 'Forbodulon Prime' to mine a valuable geological resource. Bluntly referred to as 'death crystals', these rare prismatic forms are capable of representing multiple futures on each of their varied planes at once, predictively screening the variety of fates that their owners might meet through a dizzying cinematics of disaster. While such fantastical insights offer playful narrative opportunities to the show's writers, the episode's comedic ingenuity relies largely on the gruesome visual humor of its animated depiction of simultaneity. These absurd scenes both figure and frame images of life and death as novel products of an animated process and, in doing so, demonstrate something of animation's particularity as a 'super-medium', that is, according to the media theorist Deborah Levitt, a medium composed of diverse interdependent variants.
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