Reflection on animation today and the animation reader text re-imagining animation

Animation is used as a tool to tell visual stories in films, commerce and art. It can powerfully and provocatively contrast American pornographic culture and the terrorists of 9/11 as in Saliers film 'Flesh' by imposing pornographic imagery on the twin towers and other buildings in the New York lanscape. It has provided another world for users to escape into in 'Second Life'. It has been used a tool for documentary and most well known for the imagined worlds of Pixar and Disney.  We see it everyday used for commerce as it has been widely embraced in the motion graphic world. Animation is said to be in it's barque period having passed from an experimental stage (Muybridge) and a classic stage (Disney). Every image dreamed by an artist or director can be virtually made digitally. The visual palette to choose from is wide but for me essentially as with all forms or film making I think the visual the style and language should be fitted to the story to add more layers of meaning.  In relation to Bloody Mary we have settled on a graphic style with a limited colour scheme that fits the zeotrobe look. The more I work on animating the scenes the more I am happy with our choice as I feel the silhouette graphic style embraces the use of space as Chasse Theatre, story telling wise it leaves room for the audience to freely imagine the characters from the 1700's and rhythmically the silhouette style really hones in on the movement which is suited to the violence contained in the story. We have chosen to tell her story in a loop which over and over again represents the hopeless cycle of limited choices she had as a women in the 1700's. That this women lived in Breda to me brings to life the interesting and diverse history of this town.