The Mighty Animator, Extra Credit

The Mighty Animator, Extra Credit

Hello everyone, before I start blogging, I just wanted to start by saying that if you haven’t read the extra credit reading, The Mighty Animator, Frédéric Back, I would definitely recommend reading it.

So there was something that Frédéric Back said to William Moritz that really go to me in the reading, “The problem today is that there are no more artists and thinkers at the head of organizations, only bureaucrats who make notes and count numbers.”

If you really think about it, it’s kind of a depressing thought. How much art goes unseen in the world today, even though we have so much technology to make so much art? How much art will go unmade because business men don’t want to spend the money? How many people will never get to see beautiful results of an artist’s work because it would be too risky?

So it also brings up the question we talked about in class, would you make your art (films) if no-one ever saw them? What would be the point in making anything? Sure, some people will make art at home that they might not show people but nobody would work for years on a project that in the end no-one would ever see.

I know in class that some people said that they would still make art even if no one would see it, but how much time and money would you really spend for a movie that in the end no-one (or not many people) would see?? How good would you really make your art if no-one was going to see it any ways?