Animation History (continued)

This week the topic from last week (Animation History) was continued. Pixar is currently the most dominant Animation Studio in the world whose work are unrivalled. Disney's Pixar has created one of the most loved and entertaining animated films such as Toy Story, Monsters Inc., The incredibles, Wall-E, Cars and Finding Nemo. Warner Bros. is another company that has done remarkable contribution in the field of animation with famous pieces of work like Bugs Bunny, Batman, Superman, Looney tunes and many others. Japanese animation which uses certain techniques that are rather different than western style of animation was also developed side-by-side. These Japanese style animations are called anime. But to understand the developmental phases of the animation in media we have look at its history.

Finding Nemo (Pixar)

Bug Bunny (Warner Bros.)

Naruto (Anime)

To learn about the approaches to history of an art form we need to understand the fact that technology used in art progresses in a linear fashion while art itself does not. The recent artwork are not necessarily better than older ones. But artists generally relate to the history of their art form ina non-linear fashion.

Ideology is a term that is defined as a set of ideas that constitutes one's goals, expectations and actions. Louise Althusser states Ideology as the false obviousness of everyday life. Ideology naturalises the social and treats changeable relations as fixed things. This can be found in artworks featuring visions of nature so the ideal place to explore this approach is in cartoons which is a medium for children. Children are generally fascinated with cartoons and often found watching cartoons a lot of time. These cartoons help the children see   the world in imagination.