Understanding Animation. Key frame by Key frame.

Understanding Animation by Paul Wells is one of the smaller books i've been looking into as part of my research that covers a lot of ground on the history of animation as well as the variety of media that can be used to display animated pieces.

the book was also used to convey theoretical designs towards animation and housed a very moving quote that sums up not only what a child sees when they watch an animated film but also what we all have experienced at one point or another when watching one. Sergei Eisentein says that, "We know that they are.... drawings and not living beings.
We know that they are projections of drawings on a screen.
We know know that they are.... 'Miracles' and tricks of technology, that such beings don't really exist.
But at the same time:
We sense them as alive.
We sense them as moving.
We sense them as existing and even thinking."

As I mentioned before, It makes me feel like this is what a child would feel like whenever they watched an animated film, though if an adult watched it they would remember how that felt to think like that. The author also raises this as a point as he goes on to say that, "Everyone it seems has a childhood memory of a Disney film. This is such a taken for granted yet uninterrogated fact, that it seems absurd that little attention has been given to Disney films and the nuanced responses of their audiences." 

Overall the book was an interesting read for me as it contained alot of the views that I hold to animation and portrayed them more professionally than I could in my own words.

Bibliography

• Wells, Paul. Understanding Animation. Abingdon: Routledge, 1998. Print.