Originally Posted By mawnck An interesting comment from the replies to Jenny Lerew's blog post on the topic: >>As amazing as it seems to animation folk, some people in the general public can not "read" animation or cartoon characters in general. Cartoon faces, after all, are a collection symbols most people learn to interpret as a "face" when they are small. If they are lucky, they'll learn to relate to that collection of moving line symbols as a character. Many people do not, which I think is one of the reasons why animation is not considered an adult media in the US. In Japan, for example, their alphabete is a set of icongraphs, which allows them to be more symbol friendly and also explains their more abstract, puppet like character designs. I'd say this critic, like a lot of people, can read the "3d" animation better than he/she can the "2d" variety. Which IMO is more likely the source of this kerfluffle. E.T. Bryan<< Lerew's awesome blog can be found at <a href="http://blackwingdiaries.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://blackwingdiaries.blogsp ot.com/</a> and her awesome drawings are at <a href="http://blackwingsketch.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://blackwingsketch.blogspo t.com/</a> She's a story artist for DreamWorks, but don't hold that against her. Disney would be lucky to have her. The quote above is from the replies to the July 26 post, which are well worth reading as well.
