Animation/Hybrid

Jungmi Won


Motion and animation were confusing concepts to me. But, it was clarify with the first sentence, ‘motion implies movement and action, animation implies the evolution of a form and its shaping forces’.(P9) Keyword was forces.

‘Animate form’ is the article makes me think about why design languages are transformed from modern time to current. Main reason was the change of view toward architectural space. Majority of issues has risen between stasis and stability. Like author said, “Given a constant mass, stability is achieved through orbits rather than stasis. In the case of a single, simple gravity, stasis is the ordering system through the unchanging constant force of a ground point. In the case of a more complex concept of gravity, mutual attraction generates motion; stability is the ordering of motion into rhythmic phase.” (P14) From the moment when people wanted to express force, flow and all its motion in design, from the point where people thought architecture as a move from the diagram not an archive, animation process became necessary and complexity was started.

Complexity is always present as potential in even the most simple or primitive of forms. Moreover, it is measured by the degree of both continuity and difference that are copresent at any moment. (P31) The potentials are a reason we cannot abandon a difficult concept, time with force when animating form.

If hybrid is the concept as an intense fusion by a force and accumulated time, it can be related with this notion of ‘complexity’ in animating process. Then, can we think that hybrid is a result of animating? To me, it seems we cannot. In animating form, a logic of differentiation, exchange, and assemblage within an environment of gradient influences can be examined. It involves both time and force impact as its initial component. However, hybrid is a stasis when it lost its history. ‘The amalgamation generates a now notion of identity. The different features of the work are blurred and exist in layer which do not necessarily relate to each other or to the scale and structure of the shapes and substances form which they originate.( Move: P80)’