Summer Rain – A Study of Music Visual Animation

[[abstract]]Sound and vision are the two most important senses for us human beings., with more than half of what we feel everyday coming from it. In the modern age where cable lines and information are everywhere, much of the world is now digitalized, whatever information it is, academic, entertainment, or timely news, are all just a click off the mouse away to your service. And ever since the introduction of the movie, music pictures has developed from a combination of silent images and live orchestra, to pictures recorded along with its sounds; it has dealt with the limitations of live orchestra, and also has went through the best yimes for movies. Music and image were always inseparable, especially with the influence of the late Disney lengthy animated musical “Fantasia? on the development music video, who until today are still pioneering the plurality of music videos. Russian artist Kandinsky, deeply influenced by the music of musician Richard Wagner and Arnold Schoenberg, in his compositions facilitated the specialties of music to create his own unique artistic abstract painting style, and also proposed theories discussing color and music, and has affected later experimental video of visual music. This thesis cuts in from the theories of sound and visual senses, and then from music related animation pictures to discuss the relationship between music, sound effects, and animated images to extend our own animation composition analysis.