I really enjoyed watching Steamboat Willie, not only because it’s an iconic video, but also due to how innovative it was for its time. Adding synched sounds and sound effects to an animated film wasn’t something that people back then had ever witnessed, which is really impressive. Watching this video made me think about how much work Walt Disney must’ve put into the film in order to craft something so ahead of its time. Additionally, another video I liked watching was Tagliaferro’s BEAUTY because of the different classical paintings used to create the animation. I had never heard of 2.5D before this lesson, but I found it very cool that artists are using perspective and layering to give regular two dimensional figures the illusion of depth and movement. It evokes a lot of emotion in me as I feel that this was a great edit to show the evolution of human life through paintings that express growth as well as pain.
On the other hand, I thought that Pierre Hebert’s Op Hop was very unnerving. Although the visuals itself are interesting to look at individually, the speed of the animation and the sound effects in the background add an eerie vibe to the video that I didn’t particularly enjoy. Another animation I wasn’t really partial to was Hertzfeldt’s Rejected. I can understand how it’s creative and entertaining in its own way, but I feel that the animation is just a bunch of meaningless clips thrown together without a message or theme other than to be “random” or “different,” so it’s not something I would go out of my way to watch.