The first animation I watched was Thaumatrope: bird and cage. What I find interesting is fact that it is so simple and easy to create but yet its unique. Creating a moving animation by just twirling strings and setting it in motion. The only thing I disliked was that it’s limited to only the two pictures that are drawn/printed on the two sides of the disk. The second one I looked at was the flipping book, the reason I really liked this one is because as I mentioned earlier the thaumatrope is only limited to two pictures whereas the flipping book you have all these pages where you could add a lot of drawings to make the animation looks better or have more characters in them. I don’t necessarily dislike anything from the flipping book, but I think that it might be a little time consuming to complete one. The third animation I looked at was the Astro Boy trailer, a very old cartoon which was hand drawn and then set into motion. What sparked my interest is the details that are put into that animation, from the fluid movements, flying, to the water, it looks as if it was done on a computer. It takes real skills and effort to put together a hand drawn animation like that. But again, I think it’s very much time consuming. The last one I looked at made me think of the old renaissance paintings but in motion, Beauty by Rino. The 9-minute-long video really outlined the details put into making this piece, what I really like about it is the putting together of hundreds of pictures together to set it in motion making it into moving pictures. The only thing I disliked was that the movements looked a bit robotic in some scenes.