Title of Today's Lesson: Pixilation My Aims and Objectives for Today are: to make a pixilation 'movie'
How to Stretch and Challenge Myself
For Today's Lesson this will mean:
Remembering:
to move before taking the next picture
Understanding:
that moving too far will make it jump instead of linking together
Applying:
knowledge of the software to make somethng
Analysing:
i thought i did well with this animation
Evaluating:
i enjoyed making this video
Creating:
the actual 'movie'
Reflection during lesson How am I doing so far: we have created 4 seconds of the animation Reflection at end of lesson: i think i did well this lesson in the making of our animation What have I achieved? we created an animation where i pull Sophie into the camera and then push her back again.
My flower model. It has a bright green stem with duller green leaves. One is above the other. The stigma is yellow and it has 5 petals which are all orange.
Tony Hart was an English artist and children's television presenter. He made the model animation of morph. Morph is a clay stop-motion comedy animation. This first previewed on the 15th february 1977. Model based animation is a sequence of 3D objects that move. The models are usually made from clay or plasticine. These materials are used because thy are easy to move and mould into different shapes. This means they look more realistic. These animations are made like most other stop motion animations, a photo is take and then the model is moved slightly then another photo is taken, which gives the illusion of movement. (Anon, 2016)
Cut out animation
Terry Gilliam is an american-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor, comedian and member of the monty python comedy troupe. Gilliam created captain Pugwash which is a cut out animation programme which was first shown on the BBC in 1957 but a later colour version first shown in 1974-75. This animation is created with flat objects. This is normally paper or card or photographs. (Wikipedia, 2016) This animation is like the others, photos are taken and then the object is moved and another photo is taken. However unlike other animation, where the camera is normally in an upright position, in cut out animation, the camera is facing downwards. (Thespecialeffectsblog.blogspot.co.uk, 2016)
Cell based animation
Oliver Postgate was an English, puppeteer and writer. He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's Tv shows. He created The Clangers which is cell based animation. it was first shown between 1969 and 1972. Followed by the first three special episodes that were broadcast in 1974.
Aardman animations
It is a British animation studio based in Bristol. They created Wallace and Gromit. Wallace and Gromit is a clay based comedy animation. It first previewed on the 25th december 1989. Most original animations where targeted towards older adult audiences, however the more recent animations started targeting younger audiences as well and animation became popular to family audiences.
Bibliography
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Cel-based- This is when there is an assembly line were different people would do different things. They use clear sheets for the pictures. For example, The first person would draw the picture then pass it on where it would next be coloured/painted. Then it would go to the last person who photographs it. An example animation of this would be snow white. (prezi.com, 2015)
The Fleischer Brothers
The Fleischer studios was an american corporation. It was founded in 1921 as Inkwell Studios by brothers max and Dave Fleischer. The Fleischer brothers created Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor. They made a feature film called Mr. bug goes to town but it didn't make it, people didn't want to watch it. This made them become less popular. (Wikipedia, 2015)
Norman McLaren
Norman McLaren was a Scottish-born british/Canadian animator, director and producer known for his work for the national film board of Canada. He was a pioneer in many different areas of animation and filmmaking. these include; hand-drawn animation, drawn-on-film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound. His most famous animation was Neighbours. This was popular because he used real life people for the animation instead of drawn pictures. He created pixilation which is where the people repeatedly pose and have a photo taken then once it is put all together it shows them moving. The person is kind of like a stop motion animation puppet. (Wikipedia, 2015)
TV Cartoons
The Flinstones was a early TV Cartoon. The difference with these was that they only moved one part of the character at any one time. For example: his arm would move but his other one wouldn't.
Persistence of vision is the commonly used term to describe the optical illusion where a number of images blend into one in the human mind. It is believed to be the explanation for motion in cinemas. It is the way the brain functions when two images are placed next to each other and moved at a fast pace. This then causes the brain to see the two images linking together to show one moving image. (Wikipedia, 2016)
The Zoetrope is the third major optical toy. It uses the persistence of vision to create an illusion of motion.It consists of a simple drum with an open top, supported on a central axis. It displays a number of drawings or photographs to show different phases in motion.The name zoetrope was composed from the Greek root words ζωή zoe, "life" and τρόπος tropos, "turning". It was created by the inventor Ding Huan around 100 BC. The basic drum-like form of the zoetrope was created in 1833 or 1834 by British Mathematician William George Horner. (Courses.ncssm.edu, 2016) (Wikipedia, 2016) The Phenakitoscope was also a an early animation device that used the persistence of vision to create an illusion of motion.The phenakitoscope used a spinning disc attached vertically to a handle. Around the discs centre was a series of drawings showing phases of animation, and cut through it was a series of equally spaced radial slits. The use spins the disc and look through the moving slits at the discs reflection in the mirror. The scanning of the slits across the reflected images kept them from simply blurring together. The user could then see each image separately but linked together as a moving image. It was established fully in 1829 by Joseph Plateau. (Wikipedia, 2016)
The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through two holes at the top of the device. It was not a movie projector but introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before video was invented. It created the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter. It was first shown by U.S inventor Thomas Edison in 1888 but it was largely developed by his employee William Kennedy Laurie Dickson between 1889 and 1892. (Wikipedia, 2016)
Georges Melies
Georges was a french illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. He was one of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposure, time-lapse photography, dissolves and hand painted colour in his work. Melies is sometimes referred to and the first cinemagician.He was born on the 8th december 1861 in Paris, France. (Wikipedia, 2016)
Winsor Mccay
Winsor started a professional career in making posters and performing for dime museums. He began illustrating newspapers and magazines in 1898. He joined New york herald in 1903 where he created popular comic strips such as little sammy sneeze. Mccay was an early animation pioneer between 1911 and 1921. He self financed and animated ten films, some of which survive only as fragments. He was born on the 26th september 1869 in Canada, Spring lake, Michigan. (Wikipedia, 2016)
Lotte Reiniger
Lotte was a german film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation, anticipating Walt Disney by over 10 years. This is when the film is made from cut out pieces of paper. She made over 40 films in her career, all using her invention. Her most famous being the adventures of prince Achmed. She was born in Berlin on the 2nd June 1899. (Wikipedia, 2016)
Walt Disney
Walter was an american entrepreneur, cartoonist, animator, voice actor and film producer. He is regarded as the cultural icon known for his influence and contributions to entertainment during the 20th century. As a Hollywood business mogul, he and his brother co founded the Walt Disney studios. He was most known for his filmmaking and being a showman. He and his staff created numerous famous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. Disney himself was the original voice of Mickey. During his lifetime he won 22 academy awards and received four academy awards from a total of 59 nominations, including a record of four in one year, giving him more Oscar awards and nominations than anyone in history. He won 7 Emmy awards. He was born on the 5th of December 1901 in Chicago Illinois. (Wikipedia, 2016)
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