Friday, 8 January 2016

TimeLapse Animation

TimeLapse Animation 

Time Lapse Animation is basically where you would get something that you would really want to see in a time lapse and how it changes in a certain amount of time. I think that it is really interesting some of the ones that are shown and its pretty simple to do.


Friday, 11 December 2015

Pixilated Animation

Pixilated Animation


This is my pixilated Animation exercise done by Myself, Courtney and Kiera in my stop motion animation lesson. This is what we produced in the first 20-30 minutes and then we finished on caring it on and below was our final piece.




Friday, 27 November 2015

Cut-Out Animation

Cut-Out Animation


This is the photos that we are going to use, what we done is looked through magazines to look for photos that we want for our Cut Out animation and obviously these are the ones that we want to use.


Friday, 13 November 2015

My Unknown Character

My Unknown Character


This is the character that I made, I don't really know what I waned to make but I think that it looks like a more strange minion so I think that it looks pretty good. 




This is my final piece, I wanted to have my Strange Minion walking toward the camera and then hide and show up again even closer to the camera. When I start to edit the None Stop Animation I am going to put on a minion sound affect into the background and when he shows up on the screen I am then going to have a minion laugh so that it makes the video funny. 






Friday, 6 November 2015

Animation From The 1970s To The 2015

The Simpson's 


The Simpson's - The Simpsons was created on the 17th of December, 1989. The TV series was created by Matt Groening. The Simpsons lasts up to 21-24 minutes every episode each which inst really long but I think that for this type of animation it is a really good amount of time to have for it. The TV series is still going on now and is shown on channel fox which is it it's (original) channel, but is normally shown on channel 4. The main characters in the Simpsons are Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azania, Harry Shearer.

Matt Groening - Matt Groening was the one who made the Simpsons, he is an american cartoonist, writer, producer, animator and voice actor. He also created the comic strip 'Life In Hell 1977-2012', obviously the TV show The Simpsons (1989 and still going on now) and Futurama (1999-2003, 2008-2013). The  TV show The Simpsons has gone on to become one of the longest running U.S. Primetime television series in history, as well as the longest running animated series sitcome.





South Park - South Park was created on the 13th of August 1997 and is still going on now. The TV series was made by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the episodes last for exactly 22 minutes. 








Family Guy - Family Guy is a comedy animation that is created by Seth McFarland and last for roughly about 2023 minutes. 













Morph - Morph is a clay stop motion comedy animation, it involves Tony Hart and it was first showing in 1977. It was also created by Peter Lord and David Sproxton. The show last approximately 5-30 minutes and is probably still going on now. I would say that the age to watch it would be young 4-12 




Friday, 16 October 2015

Animation 1930s-1970s

Animation in the early 1930s to 1970s

Snow White



Snow White was first seen in 1937 which is a very long time ago, it was made by drawings and then coloured in.  Hamilton Luske who created Snow White directed her through the filming numerous movement sequences, and then the animators studied and copied the footage to enhance the realism of Snow White's animated movements. 

Snow White took approximately  4 years to compete as they had to draw, colour everything in and also think of all the movements of all the other characters. It was a long and hard process but Snow White was successful and many people have watched it. 

Snow White the movie who was produced by Walt Disney was released on the 21st of December 1937, the movie lasts for 83 minutes (1 Hour 23 Minutes). It made a whopping budget of $1,488,423 to make which is a big amount of money. 



Fleischer Brothers


The Fleischer Brothers where the producers of animated cartoons and created the cartoon Betty Boop, who was popular back in the 1930s when there was short movies of her that was out then. The Brothers were considered in Walt Disney's main rivals in the 1930s. They were sons of an Austrian tailor who took his family to America in 1887. They finished their first ever cartoon in 1915, they decided that Max invented the rotoscope, a time and labour saving device in which live action film frames are traced as a guide for animated action. 

Dave pro formed in a clown suit was rotoscoped into the character Ko-Ko the Clown who also starred in the 'Out Of The Inkwell' series in (1919-1929) which was produced and distributed by the Bray Studio in New York City. In 1921 they opened their own studio and added their Inkwell series with 'Song Car-Tunes) what was made in 1924-1926. A series of silent 'Bouncing Ball' sing along shorts. 

Neighbours Norman McLaren -

Neighbours is a 1952 anti-war movie by Scottish-Canadian filmmaker Norman McLaren. In French it is called (Volsins). It was produced at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal, the movie uses the techniques known as pixilation, it uses an animation technique using live actors as stop-motion objects. Norman McLaren created the soundtrack of the movie by scratching the edge of the movie, creating various blobs, lines and also triangles which the projector as sound. 

The plot is basically just two men (Jean-Paul Ladouceur and Grant Munro) who live peacefully in a adjacent cardboard houses. When a flower blooms between their houses, they both fight to the death over the ownership of the small single flower.

The term (Pixilation) was created by Grant Munro, who had worked with McLaren on Two Bagatelles, a pair of short pixilation films made prior to Neighbours. While Neighbours is often credited as an animation very little of the film is actually animated. Most of the film is shot with variable-speed photography, usually in fast motion with also some stop frame techniques. During one sequence, the two actors appear to levitate this effect was actually achieved in stop-motion the two men kept on jumping and photos were getting took of them but only at the top of their trajectories. Under the current definition of an animated short, is unlikely that Neighbours would qualify as either a documentary short or an animated short. 

Norman McLaren followed Neighbours with twi other films using a similar combination of pixilations, live actions, variable speed photography and string-puppets.

  • The first, (A Chairy Tale 1957) was  collaboration with Claude Jutra and Ravi Shankar. 
  • The second (Opening Speech by Norman McLaren 1960) was made for the International Film Festival of Montreal and starred McLaren himself.
Wolf Koenig served as cameraman on the film.

Scooby Doo - 

Scooby Doo is an American animated Cartoon Franchise,


Scooby-Doo is an American animated cartoon franchise, comprising several animated television series produced from 1969 to the present day. The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears in 1969. This Saturday-morning cartoon series featured four teenagers—Fred JonesDaphne BlakeVelma Dinkley, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers—and their talking brown Great Dane[1] named Scooby-Doo, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps.[2]






































Friday, 9 October 2015

Pioneers And Early Animation

Pioneers and Early Animation

George Melies  -  George Melies was the one who created the Jump Cut, when The Lumiere Brothers unveiled their Cinematographe to the public on December the 28th 1895 Melies was in the audience watching. After the show he had then approached The Lumiere Brothers with a view to buying their machine but unfortunately they had turned him down. He was that determined to investigate moving pictures he sought out Robert Paul in London and viewed his camera, projector building his own, soon afterwards. He was then able to present his first film screening on the 4th of April 1896. 

He then started by screening other peoples films - mainly those that were made for the Kinetoscope but within months he was making and showing his own work, his first films being one reel, one shot views lasting about one minute. Melies job to the cinema was the combination of traditional theatrical elements to motion pictures. He sought to present spectacles of a kind not even possible in live theatre. 

In the autumn of 1896 something happened which has since passed into film folklore and changed the way that George looked at filming. While he was filming a simple street scene Melies' camera jammed and it took him a couple of seconds to rectify the problem. Thinking no more about what had happened, he carried on the film and was struck by the effect such a incident had on that scene. Then objects suddenly appeared, disappeared or were transformed into other objects. Melies the discovered from his incident that cinema had the capacity for manipulating and distorting time and space. He then expanded upon his initial ideas and devised some complex special effects. He pioneered the first double exposure (La Caverne Maudite 1898), the first split screen with performers acting opposite themselves (Un Homme De Tete 1898),  and also the first dissolve (Cendrillon 1899).

George Melies sadly died in 1938 after making over five hundred films in total - finacing, directing, photographing and starring in nearly every one.


His video 'Trip to the moon' was his most famous film that he had made.