Norman McLaren was a animator and film director, best known for his work with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Now, we dabbled in animation last year, granted it wasn't anything like major, just the basics, but it really didn't agree with me. I can completely appreciate other people's work in animation, but I could never do it for a living, or just for myself. I'll try not to be biased when it comes to animation quotes because of this. Anyway, moving onto the quote, I completely agree with the first part of this quote. As an illustrator, it is so much harder to create movement in a still image, and this is a part of animation which I admire. I disagree with the second sentence of this quote, "What happens between each frame is much more important than what exists on each frame," because I believe that you have to show what is happening on each frame/illustration. I suppose, to some extent, you can let your audience decide for themselves what happens between each frame, but this doesn't work as well in children's book illustration and illustration in general. I believe that if you haven't fully explained the story in all of your frames/illustration, then it wont be very successful. I might be looking at this from a children's illustrator's point of view too much, but these are my personal beliefs.
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