Touring programme of films and panel discussions curated and presented by Quickdraw Animation Society. Frozen Moments presents a spectrum of the use of the digital thing in Canadian independent animation, from a supporting technology to a creating technology. With the creating technology, you have the artist making their hand felt within a pure digital realm. Animation principals still apply with an homage to past genius, creating cartoon characters, reveling in purity of movement, creating abstraction, drama and humor.
Animation is the media art most affected by the digital revolution.
It is formed from pure imagination, and has always been creating worlds that never existed in reality. This is what cyberspace is, a world beyond reality. Whether that digital thing is accessed as supporting or creating technology, there is still the need for the vision and the skill of the artist to push the form beyond the software. Animators can go into the digital and create something wholly, or utilize it to augment a more traditional approach to the art form. Approaches such as these tend to open our minds to think in new ways about animation practice in general and mixing of media, regardless of the technology.