At least until the day before yesterday, when el Bolsillo Grande let me watch The World of Tomorrow on his Vimeo. Intrigued, last night I watched the 12-ish minute long Meaning of Life, which, inter alia, contains one of the single funniest animation sequences I've ever seen. It lasts all of six seconds and is basically just a string of still images, but it depicts the evolution of man set to the hyper-bombastic opening notes of Tchaikovsky's hyper-bombastic Piano Concerto No. 1. In other words: it's awesome.
So anyway, going to watch some more Hertzfeldt. And work on some shorts of mah own.
p.s. Animation is essentially just music extrapolated to an additional (spatial dimension). Both are perfectly coordinated collections of singular thingies (an (aural) note, a (visual) point) pieced together and altered over time to give the illusion of motion. Like seeing. And hearing. Our brains are stop-motion.
