The short film I will be focusing on is Gertie the Dinosaur. I was drawn to this film because I love how smooth the movements of Gertie are and how it must have been very new for people when it came out. I have seen the animation many times before but I have never really dived deep into it. Some elements that I will be focusing on are how Gertie the Dinosaur was a stepping stone for modern animation and diving deep into the processes such as keyframing and paper animation that are so important to the industry today. Additionally, I want to talk about how creating a convincing character was portrayed by Gertie the Dinosaur as Winsor McCay most likely had to put a lot of time and effort studying dinosaurs to create Gertie in a way that was simple to animate but still gave the audience the idea of a dinosaur as it is not a current living creature.
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