This week’s class really took me by suprise by all the experimenral animation set for today’s motion graphics. We went back to the 20s, where artists began experimenting: painting, scratching or even burning individual frames to create their images. “Fire-packing” and hand-tinting every frame laid the groundwork for the digital colour grading and particle effects we use today.
There were different kinds of experimenting: while in cinema they liked continuity and story beats, avant garde animators wanted sensation, feelings, colours…