Wells reading

Wells has some interesting points about animation. Growing up on mostly Saturday morning cartoons- big Wanner Bros. fan not so much Disney- I equate his notion of orthodox animation as a character based structural form and unorthodox as focusing on abstract form and rhythm in much the same way I respond to avant-garde vs narrative film. I respect the form as far as creativity and experimentation is concerned, but I still see them as "tests". I believe that our minds are either hardwired or conditioned to create connections through images and sound that create a story. When emphasis is on the media itself without attempting to create a narrative structure it is difficult for me to see it as a complete form, it is an element which can be appreciated in itself but falls short of constituting something for the mind to create concrete associations. Cell animation is extremely laborious and time consuming, before computer animation took over, traditional animation almost did not make it because of the vast amount time and resources it takes. So I do appreciate the creative effort involved with experimental animation, and I believe experimentation is essential to progression and creativity in structutral forms.