Animated Representations. Multimedia Techniques for Storytelling

Abstract

The paper presents the results of two case studies that use multimedia language for the knowledge, appreciation and communication of works of art of different epochs, nature and location and that, through the tools of Representation, make use of digital methods of animation and visualisation. The final results concern the creation of multimedia products designed to narrate a conceptual path, through a reasoned animation of raster and vectorial products. Together with the necessary technical and IT skills, it is essential to reaffirm the role of representation, which is central to image processing, recognition of graphic analogies, study of proportions, knowledge of the laws of visual perception. It should be remembered that the act of seeing is a conscious creative process that involves an intentional selection of what one wants to express and therefore represent. The two case studies presented here aim to construct a precise and intentional narrative and reading perspective that integrates the physical experience of the work.