Summary!!

I really enjoyed looking at animation from a different culture!!! I would never of thought to look at Germany especially i take most of my examples from the most obvious to me America and British so it was really exciting to find a huge variety of Animation and moving image from a completely different country! I found like in many other countries that the animation differs depending on the time is was created ... as society and popular culture changes through out generations! I found some animations that used techniques i know a bit about and some that i never even thought of such as Lotte Reiniger silhouette animations (they remind me a lot of shadow puppets and i didn't know many animations that use that technique). The older animations are fairly simple i found and experiment more with colour more than image such as Oskar Fischinger's scratch films which i love!!! I love the sophisticated look and the fact that you wouldn't think of it as an animation but its so simple and effective! And the sound that accompanies it makes it so satisfying to watch...more thought has gone into it than you think!! Then later on animation developed a bit more into stop motion an example of this is 'Balance'...this reminds me a lot of Tim Burton's work as the figures used are extremely elongated, thin and slightly creepy. I am going to continue looking throughout the summer at more animations from Germany and from other countries also to broaden my knowledge to the world of Animation!!!!!!'