I feel that creativity is a driving force that is within all of us. Even when we perform small tasks in our daily lives there is something there that makes us perform these tasks with a little flourish, something that makes us add something new and different to what is done. Fueled by our imagination, creativity drives us to be unique in our own ways.
The most important factor in fostering creativity is problem solving. Not any set type of problem solving, though, it must be creative problem solving. These situations are usually more open ended and generate a wide variety of different answers. Some of this answers will be wrong but many of the differing conclusions will still be correct. It is when we are asked to try something new, to see something in our own unique way that we tap into our creativity.
The world, sadly, has begun to become homogenized. Schools are teaching set lesson plans to improve test taking. Our sources of visual entertainment are rehashing the same stories and plots. There are small sparks of brilliance in the grey sea of conformity, yes, but in truth there aren't as many as we believe. Creativity is needed to rejuvenate our world, to break through the grey with blinding colors.
We have entered and been living in a digital age for quite some time. New advances in technology also lead to new innovations in said technology, creative innovations. Art generating software has birthed entirely new forms of work, unknown and without title until now. For example, Kinetic Typography. Provided here is an example of one of my favorite songs from the Beatles, Come Together. A selection of the lyrics, the actual words themselves, have been given movement that is not quite animatic and not quite cinematic. A new form of visual and audio artwork that advances in technology and advances in creativity gave birth to.
Source: TimmayO62 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrWFTN0rlD0
Cat Soup (9/28)
The animation covers a vast variety of ideas. At its core the animation is about a journey, but within that there are ideas of consequence for one's actions, ideas of time and its passing, as well as life and death. All these are key concepts that the animation focuses on, in its own completely crazed and animated way. Speaking of, the animation itself is dreamlike, almost ethereal. The themes themselves are hit on with in a very real tone but the cartoonish and laughable (not in a bad way) animation both drives those themes home and distracts from them, making the cartoon itself easier to view than if it was a far more realistic piece about the same themes. The negative aspect of the animation is that there are visual cues within it that are lost upon another culture, things that you look at that you have to know about first to understand. However, this could make the piece more interesting as you question what you just saw and wish to learn more about it.
For my own animation I think the most important lesson I can gain from this is that you can touch on such deep subjects in a cartoonish manner and yet still respect those subjects. It's really funny as in another class I had on animation we watched this same animated short to focus on pretty much what was asked of me here.
Cat Soup by Tatsuo Sato
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