For someone like myself who is not familiar with visual art and animation at all, an image like this is extremely captivating. It is a completely foreign concept to me. It completely takes poor Shrek apart in my eyes… creates this alien looking creature – well, even more alien looking than what I already know him as. The idea from the lecture on Waking life that “the history of animation (like the history of film in general) is rich with technical experiments and works of the imagination that question the standard assumptions of mainstream practice” seems so far away from me (Wells, Romancing the real – as qtd. in class slides). When I watch animated movies I do not think about what it took to bring the characters to the form in which I see them. It is weird, because I am well aware of the fact that it took a lot of effort to bring these characters to life, but I have never pictured them half-completed before this. It does, however make a lot of sense that the process of animation and the technology that is utilized have seen much advancement over the years, just like pretty much everything else in our world. I can imagine how these developments can be viewed from two angles, a positive one and a negative one, similar to the way in which other digital technologies that I am more familiar with also have pros and cons. I assume that with developments in animation, the pros outweigh the cons (I would think so anyways), because that is how I perceive other advancements in the world. I believe in development and progress, and although there are some drawbacks to how fast things are changing, I think it is only natural that we continue moving forward; and it is best to embrace and move with the changes rather than to desperately try to stand still and resist them. If it gives me better Shreks, I’m all for it!
Signed: Non-Analog
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