Blog 2

A caricature is a drawing of someone or something that has exaggerated features that are easily identifiable with the audience and make the character more interesting. Typically caricatures are seen in comics and political cartoons but they are also used in animation. When asked "what is more true, caricature or realism?", another question has to be asked - "What is considered true?" One can think of "true" as meaning "real" or "genuine". It is easy to say that realism is more true because obviously the ultimate intent of animation is to create realism through drawings and the more realistic the drawing, the more "true" the character becomes. Caricature has the ability to express the "true" feelings of that character though not through a realistic approach, such as eyes bugging out of a character showing their astonishment of something. This example brings up a second question "Do you apply the word 'true' to the look of a character or the feeling of a character?" This question is impossible to answer because realism and caricatures are both true, just in differenct ways. It all depends on how the audience accepts the character, which will be different for each individual viewer. My selection from the original cartoon Superman relies almost solely on realism for the look of its characters. Very little, if any caricatures are used in this clip. This may be because of the age of the drawings and the audience of adults which cartoons were mostly meant to appeal to back then.