Blog 8: Reflection on Kentridge & Leaf's Animations/Interviews and Reading - - What did you discover today?

I liked that Caroline Leaf downplays the time investment associated with animation (I know I won't when I'm finished with this animation project). I thought it was funny, too, that Kentridge and Leaf have no interest in animating with computers because they prefer to get their hands dirty; I can relate to that, but I also like computers. Reading about these messy animation techniques and how immediate and improvised they are (you can't go back and change anything!) got me excited to start animating. I think I'm finally starting to grasp (three projects later...) how I can use abstract expression and "l'art pour l'art" and all that to just make something and not think too much.