Traditional logic

In 1911, Windsor McCay created his first cartoon, based on his comic strip Little Nemo. The silent animated short film with a running time of 10 minutes is one of the earliest ever made and its expressive character animation distinguished the film from the experiments of earlier animators. Little Nemo, 1911. https://alchetron.com/Little-Nemo-(1911-film)-45390-W The response to the film was enthusiastic. An item in the trade publication Moving Picture World, which praised the film's…

As a kid, I was constantly watching Disney, Pixar, and superhero cartoons. Something about the way they can animate everything seamlessly and capture things that couldn’t exist in real life drew me in, pun fully intended. It stuck with me throughout life and it was a source of comfort when middle school and high school got too hard for me. Once sophomore year hit and I was in Honors English II, we were given a chance to study any subject freely. Of course, I jumped at the chance that I’d…

Drawing, it's a fun little diversion that isn't meant to be taken too seriously. Obviously, it's a bit crude by today's standards, but it's definitely entertaining. Moving forward a couple years to 1908, we see the first film using "traditional animation" methods, a French film called…

Response to Disney Movie – Up The Pixar production movie – Up have all the necessary quality to be considered a quest narrative story. The story is about Carl Fredrickson, a boy dreaming about becoming a great explorer and his future wife Ellie who is also adventure-spirited. They had a dream of building a house at the lost land of South America. But 73 years later, Ellie have died. Carl Fredrickson inadvertently injured a construction worker and faces the fact that he’s about to lose his…

An increasing amount of indigenous communities and organizations are adopting information technology tools to organize and store their knowledge. The term Indigenous Knowledge Management is used to describe the tools developed at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) in Australia. According to Jane Hunter (2005), the goal of these Indigenous Management tools is to “enable Indigenous communities to capture, control, and share their knowledge within local knowledge bases according to…

The stem cell research compared with the classification of a person through Dosas is just proof in how much there is to be learned about Ayurveda and other traditional methods. The stem cell research is new to me and I am coming from a place of little wisdom on studies such as the Human Genome Project but if the evidence out there is connecting our bodies molecularly to the earth than we need to continue studying…

With the loss of indigenous people across the world, there is so much more than just their cultures and language that the world would lose. The people of the world should try at all costs to preserve the indigenous cultures globally, at all costs. It is important to do so because of all the culture, knowledge and human rights which would be forever buried with the death of the indigenous world. To begin, the culture across the indigenous people is tremendously different than those in the…

Introduction Hayao Miyazaki was born in Tokyo, Japan on January 5, 1941. His early career begin in 1963 as an animator at the studio Toei Douga . Hayao has involved in many early classis of Japanese animation. In 1971, he moved to A Pro with Isao Takahata, then to Nippon Animation in 1973, which Hayao was heavily involved in the World Masterpiece Theater TV animation series for the next five years. Hayao get his first TV series directed in 1978, the series is called Conan, The Boy in Future.…

Amelia M. Paget’s People of the Plains is an insightful exploration of Indigenous culture on the plains of Canada during the early twentieth century. Paget, having grown up immersed in the culture of the fur trade, was able to communicate with the Elders of the bands she interviewed in a respectful and comprehensive way. Her attention to detail unquestionably shows in People of the Plains. This is proven to be true, as Sarah Carter stresses in the Introduction that Paget went to great lengths to…

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This week’s topic was focused all about a lovely man who greatly contributed to the animated world both artistically and fundamentally. The first innovation I’m focusing on is the new use and concept of a storyboard. “Written notes, thumbnails sketches, even visual outlines had been used before, but this was the first time that a sequence of drawings was used to plot out a film in its entirety” (pg 38). This small technique made…