The illusionist was a film we watched as a class in replacement for on of our friday artist talks. I am admit idly not a fan of digital art work, however that being said i do like animated films. I was also pleasantly sup prised to see it was set in Edinburgh which gave the viewing experience for me at least a certain familiarity, it made the viewing experience more real, and there for the plot and the key theme of 'magic'. I do have a lot of distaste for digitalised drawing, however i feel this animation in particular retained ins organic more illustrative bent, it didn't feel to over polished and the hesitancy at times in the line work was refreshing, even though it is perhaps more traditional rather then the morse smooth over worked more minimal linear style of animation say of Disney. I feel at times there is a tendency to blindly follow trends in both art and design when frankly there is no need in certain cases, this i believe is one of them. over all visually i was very impressed with the illusionist, beats the likes of Frozen any day.