Universal truths

It was fun to get to revisit some older films in class today. I remember when some of them came out, which is honestly pretty weird. xD It just made me consider how much technology has come along in the past five to ten years. It's sort of crazy when you begin to really do a comparison of the technology we had from the 90s verses the technology now, and see some of the advances we have accomplished.
It is also sort of fun to see how, despite the advances in technology, the human element never really changes. It shifts and moves to the beat of the time that it is in, but at heart it remains the same.
      That's why when films have a universal truth, it is universally understood. No matter what time period you happen to be in. (This is one of the reason I appracite sci-fi and time travel so much is because of this very fact. You can bring out the concept of being in a completely different time frame, different universe even, and the human elements still shine through.)
That connecting to the universal truth really is what film making and animating is all about. In essence you're just telling stories to people through your materials. It really is about connecting to that human condition, of which we are all aware. Telling us not the "why" or "why not" or a person or of a habit or moral, but instead the "how" and "how so".
     The best film makers and animator are searching for the lights to shine into the soul of human nature, and to discover who we are as people. Not so that they can point out the wrong doings of those around them, but so they can say that we are in fact, all in this together.