Everything Changes, Nothing Changes Developments in desktop animation and telephony will give animators total control of the production path and freedom to distribute their work widely via the internet. To take advantage of existing and dazzling new opportunities student animators need to master key skillsets technology comes to the rescue with on-line learning. Interactive Animated Projections Animation is a medium that necessitates a careful and precise consideration of each of its elements. By its very nature animation is lean. One cannot afford to render superfluous images.
Every frame is calculated and meditated upon.
This is true of animation now, as it was 100 years ago. Like many other areas of filmmaking, animation has greatly changed and generally benefited from all things digital. This essay regards animation as a physiological response to the mechanisation of the senses, a phenomenon that occurred the minute machines were able to take over, and largely exceed, the limits of human sensing capability. Animation would represent a way to physically respond in a wider and multidimensional context, according sensory impressions which we could never directly feel with movements and attitudes that we could never directly do. The morphology of human corporeality shifted from being on the interstitial point between the animal and human realms to one that was clearly delineated as outside the animal realm.