Stories
Animation
Movement built one drawing at a time, which is a definition of patience.
It clusters with comics, film, and the design of characters who have to read at a distance.
Animators learn timing in the body, even when the body is a stack of frames.
On an Interest Map, the line we most often letter beside animation reads “movement built one drawing at a time.” It tends to meet comics, documentary, and printmaking.
Work that shares the table
A book that keeps it company
The Library Book, Susan Orlean. Read it beside animation: A library as a public room full of private obsessions.