The first animation I watched was Gertie the dinosaur. The biggest thing I noticed in it was the repetitive movements used in between the actions that Gertie performed. For example, for the first 2 or 3 minutes, Gertie would go stand there and shift her two front feet up and down. The significance of this is the importance of idle movements, that give the character more life-likeness. Without the idle movement of shifting her feet, it would appear to be that there was no animation occurring between actions instructed to Gertie.
The second video I watched was How a Mosquito Works. The big thing I saw here was the use of shadows. First when the man was going through the door, and again when the mosquito was off balance on the man's face. The significance of shadows is that it adds to the realism of the cartoon by making it more 3 dimensional.
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