Animation

Animation, is in other terms, cartoon physics. It has only been around for the past 15 years, surprisingly, and relates well to model making. Animation in practice, I guess, is just movement (changing the form of a character). It relates to model making in many ways. Through stop motion, animatronics and puppets. Stop motion is the illusion of movement, whereas puppets are moved by another and animatronics are self moving. These 3 areas are something that really interests me. I love, for example, Aardman, the creators of Wallace and Gromit, Creature Comforts and Shaun the Sheep etc. They use stop motion animation and movable puppets (models). My favourite Aardman programme has to be Rex the Runt, however. I believe it’s amazing. I really like the materiality of the plasticine models and how you can tell there not real. It makes it more charming, I think. This is one of the first episodes I found on YouTube. I expect I’ll be watching more of these in my spare time now I have reminded myself of them.