Category archives: Animation analysis: Jumping (1984)

Jumping – Social-political aspects and framings

In the Industrialization part of the animation, from 2:10 to 4:00 it is almost a reflection of the Showa era (from December of 1926 to January 1989), the period that the Tezuka Osamu lived (1928-1989). “The dominant foreign model for Japanese aesthetics in Showa era was European, both avant-garde and traditional. Japanese arts remained strong, …

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Jumping – Norman McLaren, experimental animation

The animation chosen has some themes similarities with the Norman McLaren (Neighbours 1952) is an anti-war film, telling the story about two people fighting for the flower possession, same as Jumping, starting quietly and ends up in a conflict.  He used pixilation (filming moving people and objects a few frames at a time) as animation …

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