Notes from the Underground Part Two — Highjacking Animation (And
Taking It Back!)  Jean Detheux returns to look at the path
animation has strayed onto a linear, non-experimental path and
discusses why and how we should try to bring it back onto the
road leading to Art.  Emeute 62z19q by author/painter Jean
Detheux. This is part of a bitmap animated work in progress. All
original artwork © Jean Detheux.   In "Part 1 -- Animation,
Prozac or Kyosaku?" I basically accused the North American
popular culture of being guilty of murdering Rembrandt (and
Amélie) by way of (habitual) animation!  The main differences
between the Amélie trailers as made for French and for English-
speaking North American audiences are very striking (if you have
not done so yet, please go compare them and see for yourself).
The French trailer is constantly whispering in one's ear,
confiding in us, appealing to our complicity, and our
intelligence. It relies a great deal on "subtext," on all sorts
of innuendoes that enrich what is shown an