Ok so why is this true? Is art an constant which doesn't change? Are we only following the traditional methods without bringing anything new to it? I don't think that's true and moreover let's add some more factors and examine the next graph.
Technology is being improved every single second, but this unlocks more possibilities for artists and boosts art along with it. But the effort put into the making of the final product has definitely decreased. Over the years technology used in movies has never been so common. It's cheaper than physical effects, it is broader of possibilities, it can create thing that you can never create physically and the lights that you can use to light 3D scenes have abilities which every movie director will kill to have in physical state. With the development of technology, the visual side of movies has never been so beautiful and believable. Blockbusters such as "Inception (2010)", "Alice in wonderland (2010)", "Avatar (2010)" show us what modern CGI can produce, and I think it is quite AMAZING. But there is no doubt that the meaningful side of movies has decreased. What happened to the stories, the mysteries, the shock after realizing the real murderer... I haven't experienced any satisfaction from seeing new high-budget-movies ( there are some exceptions though ). But film giants like Disney and Pixar ( now together ) kept their creativity. It seems like only CGI movies now can actually show some professional storyboarding and unique screenplay. But let'd dig into the past first.
Pixar:
The adventures of Andre and Wally B. (1984)
This animation shows the great improvement of the 3D software that Pixar used, which are:
-motion blur
-particle systems (for the creation of the forest)
-Bending the model (the first type of rigging)
Pixar are and will always be the best animation company in the world. They are the company which shows what 3D can do now, but in stylized way and synthetic style of nature.
"Ideology is the false obviousness of everyday life" Louis Althusser
This quote is so, so true. People set ideals so they can look up to something they can never be. The main factor of development is competition. If we have something to fight for, and believe that reaching it will give us eternal happiness, we will be twice more productive. But something can never be ideal, there will always be imperfection, which makes it believable. But we need ideals so we can always fight for perfection, and know that by following the example set by something perfect, everything will be OK. Human's mind is always curious and hungry for the unknown, which will leads us to too many solutions to a problem, if we don't have the pre set ideal of the goal. These ideals are easily shown by animation. The best example is soviet propaganda art:
Cartoon dominants such as Disney are mentors of modern youth. A lot of kids are brought up following the rules set by Disney animations.
Bambi (1942)
One of the most touching movies I've ever seen...This movie shows to children various of important things. For example the forest is shown in such a beautiful way, synthetic style as a combination of what it is as physical objects and it's beauty as a pure element, not harming anybody and living in peace and joy (well, until humans invade it...). On the technical side, its the first animation that uses anatomy for Bambi's movement, it looks like there is a real deer skeleton inside the main character's body. They had biological specialists in the studio to whom they can refer to at any point. They also used an chinese style for making the elements from the forest to fade in a certain point, so they can fill the point of interest with curiosity. There are places where your imagination can inhabit. Also, this is one of the first cartoons to use multiplaning:
The 2D way to fake 3D. I have to say that my favourite part of the lecture came with this sentence : "First they become stiff, then they vibrate, and then they melt and become soft...". Bill definitely killed us all with that lol :D . The lecture ended with the expected anime talk. Studio Ghibli is I have to say, the best studio there is. Movies like Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, My Neighbour Totoro and Princess Mononoke have to be seen by everyone. A true piece of art. The interesting part was when the lecturer analysed the scene from My Neighbour Totoro when they planted the seeds and the tree went into bursting metamorphosis. I never knew that this was actually a reference to atomic bombs, or being more exact - in 1945, USA dropped an uranium bomb called "Little Boy" on Hiroshima and 3 days later they dropped an plutonium bomb called "Fat Man" on Nagasaki.
And finally, a quote worth mentioning -
"We are subjects to a result of our experience" by Malcolm Armstrong
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