In Cameraless Animation it is said that “the comic strip creates a vocabulary for the animated short.” Using a comic strip allows the images to be organized in a way similar to that of a flipbook where it allows for the still images to come to life. I have always enjoyed watching animations and cartoons, especially by Disney. While growing up because I was fascinated to learn how the drawings on paper came to life as real moving characters on screen. I remember how eager I was when Disney would show the behind the scenes of how the created their animations. I would try to mimic the way they drew the characters because I was in awe of the imagination behind the works. As I got older I was interested in the programming behind the works.

Seeing just how the animators were able to manipulate still images through software to basically create a really long flip book which could tell a story by taking each image and putting them together frame by frame. This technique is mainly seen in cartoons but there are other manipulations which allow for 3-D animations. Taking shadows and adding multiple frames to create depth brings to life these basic drawings to create three-dimensional figures. Even using physical models and adding digital frames have also allowed for 2-D creations to “come alive.”

I think that we are able to create many characters and portray different emotions through animation which we would not otherwise be able to through movies with real life characters. How else would we have been able to experience the adventures of a talking sponge or even our famous superheroes that we have read about in comics? Animation clearly allows us to let our imagination come to life so that we can experience what was thought about in our minds.