Action Analysis for Animators

Introduction

It has been said that art is a marriage between craft and imagination, skills, and inventiveness coming together in a fine balancing act to achieve results that speak to the soul as well as the mind. Craft without concept, imagination, or invention is reduced to a cold technical proficiency, eye candy, and the facile demonstration of dexterity, which are ultimately unsatisfying. I suppose it could be argued, then, that creating art without underpinning craft skills is in danger of becoming an esoteric exercise, an intellectualization of the human experience. The former (craft without concept) hides the lack of ideas under the high gloss of often expensive production values, whereas the latter (imagination without craft) seems to ...