What needs to be completed?

Cel based animations + Examples
Claymation/Model animation + Examples
Timelapse animation + examples
Bits on history of animation
Cut out animation + examples
a bit more on persistance of vision

Timelapse Animations

Timelapse Animations

Timelapse animation is a series of still images taken over a long period of time to trick people that it is moving image but in reality it is only a series of still images. Timelapses are usually taken showing the progression going from day to night and then back to day or it could be someone making something which would take hours to make and they set up the camera to take pictures every few seconds so by the end of the animation it will have taken thousands of pictures to build up a video clip of several thousands of pictures which would then either be left as individual pictures or you could convert them into a sequence which you could then also import into a editing program like Adobe After Effects as it reads sequence data so when you open the first one out of the group of pictures it opens up the rest of the pictures in a video form.

Cutout Animation 2

This is an example of what i will be using in my cutout animation and here are examples of the two models i will be using, i will be using a dj deck and i will be using johnny bravo to create a sort of scratching effect which vinyl dj's do when producing a set.

We have included in this animation, a background which is a simple cartoon room for where everything will be held which will include a dj deck, johnny bravo, jessica rabbit.

Cutout Animation

Cutout Animation

Cutout animation is a type of animation which animators use to animate flat objects with materials such as cardboard, paper and stiff fabric, which they create the actual characters with and also the backgrounds for the animation.

There are animations which are still used on TV to date and one of them i know of is called Charlie and Lola, as it is a children's TV show/animation based episodes. 

Here is an example of Charlie and Lola:

This is an example of what Charlie and Lola looks like, it was made in the year 2005 - 2008 as thats when it was commissioned to be made between, but even though it was made between them years it is still aired to date now. 

You set up cutout animation by firstly printing off what images you would like to use e.g. models, backgrounds and then once everything is printed off and ready to animate you then will cut the models at joints which you would want to move like hands, arms, waist, legs, feet and head depending on how complex or simple your animation will be will the decide how many joints you want to cut to animate as if its a complex animation then it will mean that your models will have a lot of joints able to move but if its a simple animation then you will only have 2-3 joints to move which will also depend on the style and way you're going to animate to match your planned out story.

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Animations to date.

Dragon ball z is a cell based animation

Pixilation

During our lesson today we were given a task we created a stop motion animation and the idea was to create a short animation between 5 seconds and 10 seconds so we thought of an idea to make a student of our group to unzip his jacket but when we played the whole animation back it looked like his actual jacket unzipped itself to make the feel of the video creepy and feel like someone has unzipped his jacket but could not be seen in the video which added that weird paranormal feel to it, we involved a method of stop motion called pixilation which means a series of captured images taken for exactly 12 frames per second and we did this for 5 seconds so in total that was 60 frames for a short animation.

The way we exported the overall video was we exported all of the images into one video by exporting out of istopmotion by exporting the video out as a mp4 file format as we just wanted the actual animation exporting and not to change the overall file render format to for example HD 720p we just went with the set render settings to give us the video we wanted.

And then we got the embedded code from the actual youtube video and we pasted it into our blogs which gave us a video embedded in our post about pixilation,

Animation 1950s - 1970s

Animations from 1950s - 1970s

• Cinderella

Cinderella was a disney animated movie which was made in 1950 by a guy called Charles Perrault which was produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by RKO Radio Pictures which is about a girl who gets bullied by her "Evil twin sisters" which made her do all the house work and choirs for themselves, and then she gets invited to go to a ball but her twin sisters wont let er and then she eventually goes to the ball but loses her show so the prince of the ball trys to find the girl with the missing shoe.

• Popeye Old King Features

Popeye old king features was a animated television series which was first aired in the 1960s and was one of the earliest animated popeyes aired, but then they continued with the cartoon and made it right up to the year 1978 which Hanna Barbara took the show and made it into hour long series. 

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Animations - 1930-50s

There are loads of different animators back in the day between the years of 1930s-50s, one of the main animators was called:

• Norman Maclaren

He made animations which had a abstract style to it for instance shapes that moved with the music which meant every beat or big sound a piece of abstract animation would move or animate to it.

This was a piece of abstract animation called neighbours, it was about two neighbours fighting over a flower with a series of different animations, video animation, stop motion animation and still photo animation. All these different animations were used to create the amazing piece of animation which is still very famous to date.

• Max Fleischer

Max Fleischer was also an animator/film director and producer, he was most famous for animations such as betty boop, popeye and spiderman as he brought them kind of animations to the movie screen and was also an inventor which meant that he was also famous for inventing numerous technological inventions such as the rotoscope, here is an example of my favourite animation he has made:

The reason why i have chosen this kind of animation is because i like the way it transitions from Popeye being in real life and walking from real life in the page of the book and showing the animation through the book page which is pretty unique and original at the time, and that's what really caught my attention compared to other animations as these animations are really smooth.

• Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry was a animation based series which came out in the 1940's and was made by two men called William Hanna and Joseph Babera making a series based on a rivalry between a mouse and a cat and throughout each episode of this series it always has some mischievous pranks on both the mouse and the cat but mainly on the cat as the cat usually is the one who gets angry first and chases the mouse.

I really loved tom and jerry as a kid and thought that it was a really good choice of animation to pick as its very smooth and enjoyable to watch at any age and really the overall animation from which were made by William and Joseph are really smooth and has brought a way of rivalry animations based on two characters.

• Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes is a animation cartoon series which started off in the year 1930's and is still getting made to this current day, as looney tunes overall is a very popular animation based cartoon series as it is associated with a company called "Warner Bros"

I picked looney tunes as the other choice of animation as both looney tunes and tom and jerry are very popular all over europe and are still getting made to this current day and still have come up with so many different ideas and not just repeated some ideas which were made back between 1930s to the 1950s and still are continuing to make original ideas to date.

The Older Animators Of Stop Motion

Early Animators:

• George Melies - He was one of the earliest stop motion animators in film history, September 26, 1869 – July 26, 1934, he was a french stop motion animator and came into the animation business in the year 1888 worked progressively through his career as an animator.  He is know for such great films such as A Trip to the Moon and The Impossible Voyage both have a unique but strange style to them but they are great and enjoyable for the viewing purposes.

• Winsor McCay - September 26th 1869 – July 26th 1934, Was an American cartoon drawer and was also an animatior who was known most for his incredible drawing/animation video called Gertie the Dinosaur and was also know most for his comic strip on Little Nemo which began in 1905. Winsor was a great artist who turned his own drawings into animations which really set the scene back in the 18 century, His films set a unique standard which was followed up by Walt Disney and others in later decades. His comic strip work has influenced generations of artists, including creators such as William Joyce, André LeBlanc, Mœbius, Maurice Sendak, Chris Ware, and Bill Watterson. 

• Lotte Reiniger - Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was a German silhouette animator and film director, she was born in June 2, 1899, Charlottenburg and died in June 19, 1981, Dettenhausen. She was known for such a strange but interesting style of film called The Adventures of Prince Achmed where it is all silhouette based animations which is a unique style of animation as I have never heard/seen someone make one but it is really interesting and was possibly her best movie/animation she had made alongside with other silhouette based animation which was her style when planning and producing an animation/film.

Persistence Of Vision

Persistence of vision

Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of the eye by which an afterimage is thought to persist for approximately one twenty-fifth of a second on the retina

There are a few kinds of they way they use Persistence of vision, one of them is called zoetrope which is:

A zoetrope is a device that produces the illusion of motion from a rapid succession of static pictures.

The zoetrope consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. On the inner surface of the cylinder is a band with images from a set of sequenced pictures. As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures across. 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.

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The second way of Persistence of vision is called Thaumoscope which is:

A thaumatrope is a toy that was popular in Victorian times. A disk or card with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to combine into a single image due topersistence of vision.

The first use of the thaumatrope was used in the year 1824 when it is a spinning coin which tricks your brain to look that images are moving back and forth, it is used as one example of the early animations when they did not have software to make these sort of animations which is used to this current date with such use of programs such as Adobe Flash which you can create flash animations with to an extent which would be more present rather then making one of these Thaumoscope animations