Random Ramblings

I figured out something yesterday, while doing the dishes and humming the tune from that Monkey advert, and pondering things. The train of thought went something like "I like Jamie's work - like that animation - I like how there's a roughness to the lines, how it looks like it's actually been drawn-" and then, I guess because the subject matter was Chinese, it got me thinking. Isn't that part of philosophy behind the painting and calligraphy, in China, Japan...? It's almost as much to do with making the piece as it is the finished piece - a lot of calligraphy is meditative... Correct me if I'm wrong, though..

Excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_painting :

(the first of six principles of chinese painting as established by Xie He in the 5th cent.)
"Spirit Resonance", or vitality, and seems to translate to the nervous energy transmitted from the artist into the work. The overall energy of a work of art. Xie He said that without Spirit Resonance, there was no need to look further."

"They created a new kind of art in which they used their skills in calligraphy (the art of beautiful writing) to make ink paintings. From their time onward, many painters strove to freely express their feelings and to capture the inner spirit of their subject instead of describing its outward appearance."

Something like that?

Now it all makes sense.

That's why I always find my sketches infinitely more interesting than cleanly-inked ones. Why I've ended up inking more sketchily. Why I use a brush, pens, and markers instead of the computer's fill can. Why I like those Xeroxed animations, why I like Hewlett's drawings, why I like 2D, hand-drawn animation more than 3D. I like things that look like they've been touched by human hands.

( continuation... )

Talking with Erin yesterday prompted me to write up a bunch of shit/research more, and so I've decided to put it all up here, since it got to be a long and impressive dissertation.
... sorry. XD

I think this is summat like 4 hours of research. Appreciate!!! DX<

( The latest animation rant! )

I was like "LOLWHUT" when I saw this in my comics.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/curtis.asp
Go back to the 14th, that's where it started.

Interesting...

But yeah, for you Erin. XD

I mean, I think 3D animation has it's merits, and I don't really mind Pixar, since they seem to take time with their work. What I DON'T like is when people make stuff in 3D because it'll sell better/be cheaper/seem "hipper," and when it's poorly made.

Not to mention that whole "Practically phasing out 2D animation in America entirely" deal.

>X[

I don't see why they can't have both. I REAAAALLY hope that by the time I get out of school, people are doing 2D again.

If not, I'm just going to have to go begging around Japan until I find a production house that'll do my stuff the way I want it.

>X[