HUM 203: The World in Motion, Animation in Theory and Practice

Assignment 1

Assignment 2

Final project

My animation, titled Krazy Kat in Motion, focuses on our class themes of a world in motion, particularly the notions of time and the history of animation itself. My animation takes Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse from George Herriman’s Krazy Kat comic and cartoon, one of the first animations, and places them in a world in motion. Krazy and Ignatz are animated in a crude, stop motion style of black and white animation. There is almost no background, just a simple line and the entire animation is in black and white. After going through another round of their usual brick-tossing hijinx, the Krazy Kat characters are confronted with a set of more modern characters. The modern characters are also simple, but there are far more in motion than their Krazy counterparts. The new characters are 'tweened, like much modern animation, and their movements are blurred, to represent a different placement in time than Krazy and Ignatz. In addition, the setting of the animation changes with the new characters. A landscape and color are added, slightly reminiscent of the Krazy Kat comics themselves. Unfortunately as when many cultures collide, Ignatz and the new characters don’t hit it off so well.