screw you disney

after reading Well's article, i feel like i've gained a new appreciation for experimental animation.  he is definitely right when he talks about disney and cel animation as the dominant form of animation.  growing up, i remember watching disney and other similar cartoons, and it became engrained in my mind this is what animation is supposed to be.  i was bombarded with these types of cartoons all the time that it was the only form of animation that i seemed to know about.  some of my favorite films as a kid were disney classics such as the lion king, 101 dalmatians, and aladin, just to name a few.  as i've gotten older, ive been exposed to more and more different styles.  you can turn on adult swim on cartoon network and see tons of different forms.  it's really entertaining to see what animators are doing nowadays.  i remember the first time i saw south park as a kid and how much different it looked than more traditional cartoons that i had seen.  in one of the video classes that i took in high school, we did a segment on animation.  we had the option of doing traditional cel animation, claymation, and a few others (i can't remember them off the top of my head now).  my group decided to do claymation and we had a blast.  i had never done anything like it before, and it was an awesome experience.  since then i haven't done any other animation so i'm really excited about all that we're doing in this class.  william moritz quote, "but inventing interesting forms, shapes, and colours, creating new, imaginative, and expressive motions - 'the absolute creation: the true creation' as fischinger termed it - requires the highest mental and spiritual faculties, as well as the most sensitive talents of hand"  made me really think differently about experimental animation.  he seems right when he says that anyone can learn to recreate the illusion of life through animation, but it's a whole different story when you are creating something completely brand new, almost like creating new life.  you have to really put your deepest thoughts and feelings into it if you want to come up with something extraordinary.  you are the creator and your hands and mind have the ability to come up with things that have never been seen before.  i also really like the quote, "experimental animation has a strong relationship to music and, indeed,  it may be suggested that if music could be visualized it would look like colours and shapes moving through time with differing rhythms, movements, and speeds."  i know some artists prefer that their films be silent, but i think music adds a whole new dimension.  seeing all the shapes and colors pass by on the screen is cool and all, but in my opinion, music makes it much better.  i think the two go perfectly hand in hand.  i love listening to music no matter what i'm doing and experimental animation is no exception.