[Disney – The Magic of Animation] (Viewer #304,110)
It answers questions I never even knew I had until they told me the answers.
[Disney – The Magic of Animation] (Viewer #304,110)
It answers questions I never even knew I had until they told me the answers.
Sure wish they had used Warner Brothers cartoons rather than Disney ones to illustrate their points.
Disney always comes across as so darned formulaic and mathematical. “We have decided that this character will have the attributes of a balloon filled with custard, with a shock of hair and a cape that will emphasize the movements.” Disney followed these formulas (formulae?) rigorously, precisely. Overly much. And eventually, with the precision of a computer. As a viewer, I can instinctively predict the arc of a character’s movement before it even happens; and, more damningly, sense intuitively that no animator could ever have possibly draw the movements freehand, without a calculator and drafting tools.
That is not the feeling that I got from Warner Brothers cartoons.
Warner Brothers felt free to ignore the mathematical formulas of body mass and movement at unpredictable intervals, making their cartoons more intellectually captivating and fun to watch. One simple example is Wile E. Coyote walking away like an accordian. Another is a normally whole, hardy Bugs Bunny with a predictable anatomy suddenly going off-script, and out of the bounds of his body’s normal capabilities, after seeing a giant hairy monster, or after drinking a poisoned beverage.
I don’t like analyzing humor to death, but I do enjoy the challenge of defending a preference for one cartoon studio over another!
So, is this how we get Frank?
He’s more of a Virtuous Reality thing.