I remember watching this as a kid on VHS and loving the simple two dimensional animation, illustrated stills and the total dependence on narration to deliver each episode. I really admired the beautiful drawings and the sketchy stop motion animation that brought the stills to life. Enjoy!
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It's great to be able to see animation such as this to remember what we used to watch as kids but also to realise how far the art of animation and moving image to developed in our lifetime.
It's worth noting how narrative/visual experiences have changed for children - the programmes used to be either like this example or pictures from the book with a narrator sitting reading the book whereas today the visuals/moving images are so much more a part of the experiences created for kids. I don't think its a bad thing in that childrens' programmes today are lively and vibrant, fuelling their imagination and creative play, but does it have an impact on their language skills as not as much narrative descriptions are used because they can just watch it happening instead now?
thanks for your comment, however I do feel that children programmes like Noggin the Nog have a certain aesthetic and narrative style that has been lost in alot of children's television. I would argue that this means that alot of vocabulary in children's TV has also been lost and replaced with slang, 'baby-talk' and in some cases colour and flashing images instead of words. This TV programme is one of the pioneers in stop-motion animation and is a great example of a programme with a strong dependence on narrative can still be visually stimulating. I would also argue that although children's TV has developed in our lifetime I'm not as sure that all programmes fuel imagination and creative play, when everything is presented to children on the screen surely it means that they don't have to search for meaning anywhere else and in turn not having to use their imagination?
I feel that Noggin the Nog and other animated programmes from a similar time period are also useful in design because they present a visual style that is jagged, dark and full of atmosphere. If used correctly, all of the good elements of these animated programmes can be extremely useful to any modern-day designer/animater.
Again, thanks for the comment, it is always good to have a diversity of opinions
I found this cartoon quite sad, it's much more serious than cartoons you get today, like... Pokemon for example which doesn't give you any chance to emphasise, it's much too fast moving and attention is directed mre towards effects and action. You really feel an emotional connection with the characters as it is a much slower, thoughtful pace, which draws you in to the story.
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