John Whitney

John Whitney was born on April 8, 1917 in Pasadena, California. He was an animator, composer and inventor. He is considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. Computer animation is the process of creating images through using computer graphics. Out of the 55 years of Whitney’s filmmaking career, 40 of them were dedicated to computer work.

         One of Whitney’s works is “Arabesque.” This film runs for seven minutes and is accompanied by the music of Manoochelher Sadeghi. This work is comprised of “psychedelic” and blooming color-forms. Whitney also experimented with Islamic architecture in this film. I really liked this work because Whitney was able to create colored images and animate them to flow perfectly with the music. He also demonstrated harmonic progressions, which are the chord changes in the harmony of music, and he was able to tie it to the colorful images.