Lotte Reiniger

Whilst in the library looking at the animation DVDs I found a dvd that was a compilation of Lotte Reinigers animations, Reiniger animated silhouettes of characters which I thought I might find interesting as again it is using body movement to portray emotion I only saw two of the animations from Reiniger: "The Magic Horse" and "The Grasshopper and the Ant" I found both very interesting, the animation itself was good however for me it is more about the detail in this one, although they are silhouettes there is still a lot of detail in them and Reiniger does still manage to portray emotions very well by the use of movement.

                                                                The Magic Horse 
I especially like this one probably mostly due to the fact it has birds in it (I love birds) but it has a nice story and the animation is still quite good.

The art of movement

So I was looking for animations on Vimeo, and I found this, it was one of the first that came up under the search of  '2d animations'

'Thought of You'

I love this, I think it is beautiful and this is almost exactly the reason that I am interested in animation, it is not about pretty pictures moving for me, for me its about the art of movement. I love the grace and emotion that goes into the movements, I think its strange, (but also interesting) when parts speed up or slow down, and the very fluid movements which sometimes lead to wings and things is very beautiful.

One of my friends showed me this:

The Shrine / An Argument

Which, although it is beautiful and a very good animation it doesn't interest me as much as "Thinking of you" because it is more about the beautiful pictures moving then about the actual movement, which is what I think animation should be...although I can still appreciate the beauty of it.