The concept of animating by painting on glass is definitely an interesting one. Paintings, when well done, can be very beautiful, and an animation made of beautiful paintings is something incredible. Painting on glass seems a bit risky as well. Your separate paintings are not saved in physical form. You cannot alter the original medium later. Each and every painting is changed in its original form to become something new, which seems difficult.
Both the films we watched in class that used this medium I liked. The Street was more simply-animated than Strings, yet I understood the story just as well, if not better. That shows that it is not detail that makes a story. I am a detail-oriented person, so that is something to learn from. Strings was very beautiful, yet I did not understand the point of the film. Did the woman know someone who had died on the Titanic? What happened to the fiddlers downstairs? I cannot grasp the deeper meaning.
The Street was not as colorful or clearly animated as Strings. I can understand why. It must take forever, as Professor Leeper said, to go into much detail while using this medium. However, doing just that would create a masterpiece. For example, I found this animated version of Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea that was made using painting on glass. It is truly a masterpiece.
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