A Line of Movement: From Vegetative Development to Animation

Surrounded by a plant world that seems to reserve a particular space for change and action, the authors highlight the line element, which seems to play, among others, the role of a bridge between different areas of knowledge. Its structuring and transversal nature implies itself in drawing as a means of aesthetic exploration, branching out its presence in concepts of the synthesis of information, the study of movement, and always in the paths of the word “observation.” Combining visual and perceptive acuity with the power of graphic and formal synthesis of the line, through studies of movement of this involving exploratory space, particular attention is given to lines of support and oscillation of movement through the dynamic progression that models formal development. This reflection seeks to contemplate a potential of the study of the dynamic line to signal observation, understanding of the world (namely from the vegetal development), and its implications in animation cinema.