Caroline Leaf had a very
interesting start to her animation career. Unlike many of her peers in the
animation community, she never had a career goal to be an animator. She says
that she did not really much drive, until she took the animation class in college. It was one of the only two film classes offered at their college. She talks about how
she had never really had drawn before, and never really learned how. In her
animation class she learned how animation is more about the movement of the
objects instead of the actual drawing. That was what convinced her to take up
animation, because she did not think of it as drawing. She was a thinker and an
innovator, she was one of the first to use sand in her animation. She also was
one of the early users of glass. She found ways to use a new medium in a way that
was easy for her understand. Her work eventually took here to the Canadian
National Film Board. She continued to make great films for the Canadian
National Film Board, and had a very successful career. She was a great innovator
and had a very important role in the development in animation. Friday, October 19, 2012
A New Animation Medium
Caroline Leaf had a very
interesting start to her animation career. Unlike many of her peers in the
animation community, she never had a career goal to be an animator. She says
that she did not really much drive, until she took the animation class in college. It was one of the only two film classes offered at their college. She talks about how
she had never really had drawn before, and never really learned how. In her
animation class she learned how animation is more about the movement of the
objects instead of the actual drawing. That was what convinced her to take up
animation, because she did not think of it as drawing. She was a thinker and an
innovator, she was one of the first to use sand in her animation. She also was
one of the early users of glass. She found ways to use a new medium in a way that
was easy for her understand. Her work eventually took here to the Canadian
National Film Board. She continued to make great films for the Canadian
National Film Board, and had a very successful career. She was a great innovator
and had a very important role in the development in animation. 
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That's an interesting thought, that animation is more about movement than drawing. When I think of animation, I usually think of the drawn pictures, and sometimes the stop motion. But when I think of someone who didn't draw very much becoming an animator,it makes me want to think of other ways to animate stuff, invent new methods.
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