[COP3]The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965) Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones's The Dot and the Line is a good example to demonstrate my aim of the practical except the narration. The use of shapes and geometric are so clever that it would still work even without narration. The use of colour helps tell and story and Jones morph the shapes to make them into different things. I found that he like to make use of the proportion of the scene for example the line drops and making the scene have 2/3 blank space, introducing a sense of tightness and the weight of the line. I think the animation proofs that it still demanding audiences' imagination to make it success. If we have no experience of meeting someone or encounter similar situation, it is impossible for this animation to work. Also I think the message is different in every audience since there are no restricted appearance for the characters and also different shapes and image would have various impression on people. Therefore, I think in order to be able to generate empathy from every audience, it is important to keep the movement simple and distinguishable. Obviously narration helps a lot to help audience absorb the information and if I could make the animation again, I would try introduce narrative to it. What's more, Jones is good at using the property of the shape, stretching the line or shorten it, expending their functionality to extreme. There are so much we could play around with object in animation that could also able to create empathy from audience with movement.