Experiments in Small Art and Big Motion!

January 10, 2007

Welcome to MotionArt, Inc.'s first posting on our web log.

Here we encourage you to experiment with animation through small art and big motion.

About us: MotionArt, Inc. promotes animation, first and foremost, as an artform, not a commercial enterprise. Our constant incentive: animation is far too important and wondrous an artform to be left in the hands of TV producers bent on making money.

While we experiment with animation as visual music, kinetic design, and movement through space, MotionArt seeks to reduce the inherently cumbersome process of building motion frame-by-frame. And as we simplify the process, we aim to protect and promote the elemental basis of the medium, namely, the motion and the art.

We face big questions basic to animation, whether it's hand-made or computer-assisted:

1. How to describe, with few lines, the most intriguing compound movements possible?

2. How to make our animation, in the words of Richard Williams, "compelling to watch?"

3. How to make our experiments, explorations and expansions of line, shape, color and symbols in movement practical to produce?

4. How to make these experiments so intriguing to watch that they actually improve with each new viewing?

5. Finally, how to open the artform to worthy experimentation, without vast investments in real estate, equipment, personnel and distribution?

MotionArt, Inc. aims to become a clearinghouse for those seeking grant support to pursue experimental animation, as well as a clearinghouse for artists seeking collaboration, synergy and constructive criticism.

We invite you to visit the MotionArt, Inc. blog from time to time, and we welcome your comments and support about animation, the "newest of artforms," now starting its 101st year as a projected medium!)

In the words of Walt Disney, "Animation is not just that 'cartoon medium.' We have worlds to conquer here!"

How great it is to set sail!