For this task we had to create a short animation that included as soundtrack and titles. I created the models in this video which were Morph and Spongebob. I worked with Hannah to put together the video this took us a few attempts and didn't start filming until everyone in the class was onto adding the music soundtrack and credits to theirs. This was because we took more time than we should of creating the models. Even though we were behind by a few lessons we still managed to get it filmed, edited and added the music onto it all in one lesson.
Scooby-Doo is
an American animated cartoon. Several animated television series were produced
from around 1969 to the present day. Scooby-Doo was created for Hanna- Barbera
Productions by the writers; Joe Ruby, Ken Spears in 1969. The series focused on
four teenagers and their dog. The characters were: Fred Jones, Daphne Blake,
Velma Dinkley and Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers and their talking Great Dane
Scooby-Doo.
Bagpuss:
Bagpuss is a
UK children's television series that was created by Peter Firmin and Oliver
Postgate from February 1974 to May 1974. There has only been 13 episodes made
but are often repeated in the UK. The creators of this use stop-frame animation
to bring the characters (objects/toys) to life.
Postman Pat:
Postman
Pat is a British stop-motion animated children's television series, this was
first produced by a company called Woodland Animations. The first series which
consisted of 13 episodes were aired on TV in 1981 on BBC1. As the first series
was a massive success they followed by bringing out a second series to the
screen which also consisted of 13 episodes this was aired in 1996. John
Cunliffe wrote the original treatment and scripts and it was animated by Ivor
Wood.
Snow White is
the first successful full-length animated feature film using cell based
animation. The success that Snow White received started the Walt Disney
Corporation off. It took over 100, 0000 drawings to make throughout the whole
film. Snow White was premiered on December 21, 1937, followed by a nationwide
release on February 4, 1938. The film made international earnings of $8 million
during the initial release. Snow White set the record of highest grossing sound
film at the time it was released. The popularity that the film has received led
to it being re-released theatrically many times, it then was home video released
during the 1990s.
Fleischer Brothers
Fleischer Studios Inc., is an American corporation which was originally
an animation studio located at 1600 Broadway, New York City. It was founded in
1921 as Inkwell Studios by Brothers Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer; they both
ran the company from the start until Paramount Picture forced them to resign in
April 1942. Some of their well-known feature films are Gulliver’s Travels and
Mr. Bug Goes to Town.
Art Clokey
Arthur ‘Art’ Clokey is an American creator of stop motion
clay animation. He began by creating a film experiment called Gumbasia which
was influences by his professor in 1955. He’s best known for the characters
Gumby and Pokey as they became popular faces on American Television by
appearing in The Howdy Doody show. He’s also best known for Gumby: The Movie
which was released in the 1990s.
Fred Quimby
Fred Quimby is an American cartoon producer, he’s best known
for producing the Tom and Jerry cartoons, for which he won seven Academy
Awards.
Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones is an animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter,
producer and director of animated feature films. He’s best known for the Looney
Tunes and Merrie Melodies short films that he created for the Warner Bros
studio. After his career at Warner Bros he began producing new series of Tom
and Jerry short films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he also produced Dr. Seuss’ How
the Grinch Stole Christmas!
This short animation piece ' The Vanishing Lady' is by George Meliès. George was a French illusionist and filmmaker in the early days of cinemas. His best known films are 'A Trip To The Moon' and 'The Impossible Voyage' these are both considered to be early science fiction films.
Winsor McCay
This short animation piece 'Little Nemo' is by Winsor McCay. Winsor was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip animation 'Little Nemo' and the short film animation 'Gertie The Dinosaur'. His career began by making posters, and illustrating for newspapers and magazines. He joined the New York times where he began making comic strips. Throughout 1911-1921 he created ten animated films.
Lotte Reiniger
This piece is a 66 minute clip from Lotte Reiniger called 'The Adventures Of Prince Achmed'. Lotte was a German silhouette animator and film director. From and early age she loved cinema, she had inspiration from George Meliès for his special effects, Paul Wegener. She enrolled at the same acting group that Wegener was in, to attract his attention she started making silhouette portraits of the actors around her, eventually she started making the title cards for Wegener's films. Lotte is best known for working with paper silhouettes for her films.
Walt Disney
This short animation piece is called 'Steamboat Willie' directed by Walt Disney. It was produced in black and white but was the first ever cartoon to contain sound effects and soundtrack. Steamboat Willie was the third of Mickey's films to be produced, but this was the first to be distributed.
What is pixillation? How is it created? History Examples of pixillation My pixillation animation
This is a short pixillation animation that I created. I created this in iStopMotion by taking a series of photographs that once played together produces a simple animation. Once I had created this I exported it out of iStopMotion and saved the final finished pixellation animation.
Persistence of Vision is the key to
how we perceive movement in animation - or film, video or computer games. With
animation, film video and computer games, each image does not move, but as we
are shown a series of still images all in sequence, with each image being
slightly different to the others, each shown for no more than 1/12th of a
second. Images presented in sequence for such brief periods of time are not
actually understood by the eye and brain, but the brain is tricked into
connecting these images together and reading the sequence as movement.
Persistence of vision has been
around since 5000BC in ancient China. However, the Victorian Age, with its love
of novelty and invention, saw many toys and gadgets that used the process of
persistence of vision.
The Zoetrope
The Zoetrope is a device that creates the illusion
of movement from a series of still images. The zoetrope is a simple method of
creating a short animation from a sequence of still images. It consists of a
cylinder with slits cut vertically in the side, on the inner surface of the
cylinder is a strip with a sequence of images on, each image is slightly
different. As the cylinder spins, you look through the slits at the pictures.
The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together, and
the user sees a rapid succession of images, producing the illusion of motion.
The Phenakistoscope
The Phenakistoscope was an early animation device
that used the persistence of vision principle to create an illusion of motion.
The method behind the phenakistoscope had been recognized by the Greek
mathematician Eucid and in experiments held by Newton, although it was not
until 1829 that the idea became firmly established by Belgian Joseph Plateau.
Plateau planned it in 1839 and invented the device in 1841. The Phenakistoscope
uses a spinning disk attached vertically to a handle. Around the centre of the
disk was a series of drawings showing phases of the animation, cut through it
are a series of equally spaced radial slits. The user would spin the disk and
look through the moving slits at the disks reflection in a mirror. The scanning
of the slits across the reflected images kept them from simply blurring
together, this way you would get a clear image. This would allow the user to
see a rapid succession of images that appeared to be a single moving picture.
The phenakistoscope can only be used by one person at a time.
The Mutoscope
The Mutoscope was an early motion
picture device, created by Herman Casler on November 21 1894. Similar to Thomas
Edison’s Kinetoscope this did not project on screen and can only be viewed by
one person at a time. This is a cheaper and simpler than the motion device Kinetoscope.
The Mutoscope worked rather like a flip book, the individual frames were black
and white, silver-based photographic prints on tough flexible opaque cards. The
cards are attached to a circular core. One reel holds about 850 cards, giving a
viewing time of about a minute. Mutoscopes were coin operated. The user views
the cards through a single lens enclosed by a hood.
The Kinetoscope
The
Kinetoscope is an early motion picture device. This was designed for films to
be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole viewer at the top of the
device. This works by creating the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of
perforated film sequel images over a light source with a high speed shutter.
This was invented by Thomas Edison in 1888 but was developed mainly by his employee
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson between 1889 and 1892.
Norman
Maclaren is a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his
work at the National Film Board of Canada. He was a creator in many areas of
animation and filmmaking. He was awarded an Oscar for the Best Documentary in
1952 for ‘Neighbours’ this is one of his best known films.
Jan Svankmajer
Jan Svankmajer is a Czech filmmaker and artist. He is a
self-labelled surrealist known for this surreal animation and feature films.
One of his best known short film is 'Food' which was produced in 1992.
PES
PES born Adam Pesapane is an American director and stop
motion animator of several short films and commercials. His short film Fresh
Guacamole was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
This was the shortest film ever that has been nominated for an Oscar.
