Animation Spectrum

One of the things my group talked about in class was what differentiates animation from live action. The answer seems really obvious at first, but the more we talked about it the less we all could agree. For example, is a time-lapse animation or live action? It's film that has been manipulated to change how we see movement, but is still just real people being filmed. This makes animation seem more like a spectrum, where a film can be not fully animation, but not completely live action either. At first my definition of animation was that it had to be further manipulated than just filming something, like an extra layer of art like rotoscoping or clearly with hand drawn, but that doesn't seen to fit with all the films we watched. Like with the short film "Danielle",  it's hard to tell which part exactly made it animation, if it was at all.