{"id":122218,"date":"2014-04-29T17:04:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T17:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122218"},"modified":"2014-04-29T17:04:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T17:04:34","slug":"the-illusion-of-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122218","title":{"rendered":"The illusion of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/93206523\" width=\"500\" height=\"198\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The 12 basic principles of animation were developed by the \u2018old men\u2019 of Walt Disney Studios, amongst them Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, during the 1930s. Of course they weren\u2019t old men at the time, but young men who were at the forefront of exciting discoveries that were contributing to the development of a new art form. These principles came as a result of reflection about their practice and through Disney\u2019s desire to use animation to express character and personality. Cento lodigiani applied all the above to a simple shape a cube<\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=50781\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The illusion of life<\/a> was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Curious Brain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 12 basic principles of animation were developed by the \u2018old men\u2019 of Walt Disney Studios, amongst them Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, during the 1930s. 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