Another lecture and this time we discussed how animation can use the best of space to create an atmosphere for characters and objects to react to and to better understand this idea, we were shown various examples of films that demonstrated it
‘Manipulation’ by Daniel Greaves was a very simple example in which he used a drawn character on plain white paper with the addition of a puddle of red paint and the physical hand of the ‘creator’ to give the sense of interaction e.g. poking him, pushing him, picking him up etc.
Another example we were shown was ‘Family Ties: Dreams And Desires’ by Joanna Quinn which used only drawn animation and line, but as opposed to using a fixed shot and making use of the space within that one shot it played with the character’s viewpoint using a hand held camera during the events of a wedding day – a good example of the use of a realistic camera shot would be where the character decides she wants to use tracking and a wedding guest in a wheelchair is used as a device for creating this shot (as shown in the clip from the animation below).
