Animation, cue recruitment, Visual cues

Visual cues and animation

Humans rely on visual cues (form, scale, color, value, etc.) when interpreting sensory visual data from the environment. Our environment is regular and predictable enough for us (through ‘survival-of-fittest’ we adapted specifically to this environment and not some other one) that over time we have become accustomed to successfully attributing certain meanings/outcomes to certain cues. […]