The Characteristics Of Animation: Performance And Animation

As a person goes through their life, they encounter many choices and options. The most obvious ones are what they will wear, eat, or do for each day of their life. Everything that they do, even the most simple decisions, can and will impact them and who they are as a person. This will become a part of their identity. However, as the social beings humans are, their identities can be effected by those around them, virtually and physically. Most especially, every person’s identity is affected by the opinions and thoughts of others which can be expressed online, through verbal comments, and body language. This causes each person to question themselves and attempt to view themselves from the eyes of others. And when people question their identities

This paper examines the formation of the identity in the late modern society compared to the traditional society. There has a been high-tech development in our present society, which makes communication among people easier. In order to reach a better understanding of what characterizes identity formation in the late modern society, theories by Anthony Giddens and Erving Goffman will be used. Today, we have the opportunity to create our own virtual identity through social media. This paper analyses the American Documentary Catfish, with particular reference to relevant non-fiction and fiction codes. Catfish is a magnificent specimen of how easy identity can be faked on social media. The analysis shows that sociologist’ theories is an important

[CE] There is beauty with everything that we do and why not technology as a reflection of our self representation. We take a picture of ourselves and post it on social media apps like Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to show an experience or current state we are in. We write blogs to express our thoughts and views online so others will see what we are thinking. This paper simply explains why and how individuals take advantage of their sources in this case, technology and shape themselves and create a name for themselves.

Animation is derived from the latin word animare, meaning “to give life to” (Wells, 1998). Animation is therefore the representation of life, both real and imagined. Animation “can express more than just the physical world”(Wells, 1999) therefore making it a unique way to create a documentary. Animated

There are over seven billion people living today, each one of them is distinct and unique in their own way. The daily interactions and experiences shape our view on how we respond to the changes that we encounter in daily life. The way we behave in our mesosystems’ is a result of the influence of our microsystems. We grow emulating the behaviors and norms we observe relating with family and friends. Moreover, the media is a critical tool that shapes and instills in us certain values, views and perceptions. The person that one grows up to be is highly dependent on these factors which serves to define one’s sense of identity. In totality, our upbringing, culture and the media shape our concept of an authentic self.

In the ethnography It’s Complicated by danah boyd, the subject of identity in relation to technology and the younger generations is explored. boyd examines notions of consistency between identities and how people contextualize themselves and their behaviours according to who they are interacting with. This is highly relevant to today’s society, as technology is everywhere in our lives; we use it every day, and it has become an important part of our worldwide culture. We use it as a way to express ourselves freely behind the protective barrier of our screens, and as an extension of our personal selves. However, the way we use our technology sometimes does not reflect our identity in real life, and as a result, our online identities can be significantly different from our real life identities.

Who we are through technological means such as Facebook is growing further away from who we are in reality. As the microprocessors and web designs are becoming more advanced and even addictive we are finding we are loosing who we really in the buzzing busyness of the Internet. Our identity is who we our from our minor mannerisms to our personality, its what makes you, you, even with the good the bad and the undesirable all included. However technology is know giving us the ability to throw what we don’t like about ourselves and replace it with weak words and an auspicious profile picture

Throughout the history, our civilization has been evolving because it transportation systems, the currency units, the industries and others developed. Furthermore, people were exposed to the various changing by the development of technology. The development of the airplane industry allowed people to go anywhere faster, and the development of the IT industry allowed people easily stay connected to each other through the online world. Because of this, human beings have been influenced by the changing of their surrounding environments, and it leads to new issues that human beings never faced before. Sherry Turkle, the author of “Alone Together”, introduces the impact of the development of technology on humans, particularly human relationships. She argues that although the development of technology allowed people to have easier, faster, and more efficient lives, it also asked people to think about the meaning of “authenticity” within their relationships. Zadie Smith, the author of “Speaking in Tongues”, talks about having ‘voices’ which represent the human beings’ identities. She asks reader to think about the meaning of “authenticity” while she explains the ‘multiple voices’ and ‘single voice’. Susan Blackmore, the author of “Strange Creatures”, introduces the ‘meme’ view by saying that the most of interactions for human beings’ lives are imitated, not created which problematizes the conventional concept of “authentic”. Through the development of technology, human beings’

The group that I have chosen to observe, are the rising stars of the modern era, simply known as, Youtube celebrities. Through a symbolic interactionist perspective, we can understand these groups of people by observing their ways of interaction to the social world. These groups use their camera and some other form of electronic tool (Computer, tablets, etc.), in order to interact with others to form their own kind of reality. These individuals use staging so that the viewers can have a sense of how “amazing” they are on camera, but in real life they may not be the same person whom they portray. As we discussed in our lecture, (2/03), social interaction has to do with often taking the role of the other, which in this case the

Thus, dramaturgy is an effective and flexible method of analysis for qualitative, ethnographic based research. As a model for studying everyday life, dramaturgy reveals how identity is constructed, managed, and understood within contextualised locations through shared meanings. This understanding can be used further, to explain how and why human behaviour alters in different situations, identity development throughout the life course, power relations, conformity, subculture, as well as the formation of self and group identity.

Social networking websites represent another popular form of new media. These mass communication technologies, Facebook as an example, enable users to connect and feel connected to others, as well as provide a virtual space for self-reflection. The anonymity of social networking websites allows users to experience multiple identities. According to the article, “Facebook, Anonymity, and The Crisis of the Multiple Self”, Facebook anonymity is “a way to recoup an energy of metamorphosis, the desire to become someone else” (Lovink 46). Users of social media sites tend to display different self-images to explore different identities or to seek self-development, which may be misinterpreted as fake. Since the perception of ‘the Self’ changes over time, “social media should be seen as only the latest incarnation” of oneself according to the Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz (41).

First, popular culture, through both traditional and new media, no longer acts as mirror of what is happening in society and therefore reflecting our self-identities, on the contrary, they act as manufacturers, through stereotypes, genres and conventions, of certain images and representations that through the repetition become familiar and natural to us although they may not be. Popular culture creates “portraits” of who they want us to be, it tells us what we should believe about ourselves. Consequently self-identity is no longer entirely personal but rather one projected to us by

Sounds are and always have been one of the fundamental aspects in animation because it enables every action that each character plays. Without sound, animation would not have the same effect as it does with sound.

Human interactions with each other and with tangible objects such as technological products, help create relationships among human beings themselves, and among human beings and physical objects. From these relationships, most people have either faced acceptance or rejection from the people or things they have related with. Some of these are results of differences in what is conventionally accepted as normal while others are just results of unfulfilled expectations from the relationships created. In Andrew Solomon’s article “Son,” he discusses that his mother modified his identity at an early age, which caused the struggle between his real identity formation and the expectation that his mother and the society had. For Solomon, relationships can sometimes disintegrate on the basis that one’s real identity does not conform to what conventionally passes as normal, because a majority of people are not accepting to standards that differs from normal. In contrast, in Sherry Turkle’s article “Selection from Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology And Less from Each Other,” she discusses how expectations from human relationships, e.g. love and emotional connections, create new fronts of identity formations with technology when human beings do not meet such expectations. From these two articles, the ideology of identity formation is a variable of relationships. Most importantly, human relationships with each other and with technology create acceptance or rejection,

The Pixar feature animation, Inside Out (2015), uses computer-generated animation techniques to mimic the conventions of live action cinema and also applies techniques of two-dimensional animation to some aspects of the animation. The Inside Out story takes place in two different worlds. The inside world which is Riley’s mind controlled by five of her emotions and the outside world, where she lives with her parents. Inside Out combines the elements of both traditional animation and computer animation to show how Riley’s two worlds differ from the other. Riley’s outside world shows a high degree of hyperrealism; having life like qualities and at the same time not photorealistic. Riley’s inside world on the other hand, is a lot more