Through its colour animations and variations in its luminous halo, it provides useful real-time information such as weather forecasts, market trends, or email alerts….
Mega Drive games such as Gunstar Heroes, Comix Zone and Dynamite Headdy, and SNES greats such as Donkey Kong Country, Chrono Trigger and Yoshi's Island show an incredible artistry, an intricacy of detail, colour and animation that still have immense power.
The lion's role as King of the Beasts has been used in cartoons, from the 1950s manga that gave rise to the first Japanese colour TV animation series, Kimba the White Lion, Leonardo Lion of King Leonardo and His Short Subjects, both from the 1960s, up to the 1994 Disney animated feature film The Lion King, which also featured the popular song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in its soundtrack.
But everything is bright enough, with fun colours and animations.
Tykwer uses a range of media - video, 35mm, black and white, colour, stills and animation - to create a breathless pace that sometimes seems more like a music video or a computer game than a feature film.
Yasuda's life became the subject of a popular book in Japan, Yasuko Shibagushi's "The Colour Artisan of Animation".
Today we are doing our journalism in words, (colour!) pictures, video, data, animation, audio; on mobile and other platforms and in social … and every possible combination of the above.
The 1986 International Film Guide called it "an elementary piece of animation lacking colour and character, with not much humour, quite lacking in charm, and indifferently scored".
Google calls its new paradigm "material design", and it places fresh emphasis on graphical animations and colour changes in response to the device owner's actions.
