Growth of experimental animation

When animation was starting out it was mostly a representational form of art such as classical paintings but as the options of animation opened up, filmakers realised that the limits of live action could be breached by using animation. Therefore animations which are not classical is the sense that they are not a set progressive story such as the Disney animations which all had varying stories but the story concepts of Disney films never even scratched the surface of what animation could be or what it could acomplish. Short animation films started becoming more popular and animation was being used for all sorts of stories and ideas. Some experimental animations to list are 'Sita Sings the Blues', 'Soma' and 'Paradise'. 'Paradise' is an animation created by Ishu Patel who was an abstract animator that used lots of different experimental techniques that played with light, materials and exposure.