The Red Turtle Dazzles with the Animator's Craft

Animated features were once a rarity but have now become commonplace, and while there is apparently no end to the flood of heavily marketed cars, minions, trolls and smurfs, I suspect that the form itself, no matter how commercially exploitable, still carries a trace of the original impulse behind the first animated films more than 100 years ago. Animation is the art of bringing a man-made creation to life.…