Pixilation exercise

First attempt

This is what we have done so far in our pixilation exercise for stop motion. As you can see we have used people. During the stages of pixilation i found it really easy even though it took quite a long time to complete.

This is our final piece for our pixilation exercise. During our lesson me, keira and Gemma did various different things to make a small stop motion animation.

Cut-Out animation Exercise

Cut- Out Exercise Animation lesson

For my cut out animation I had to create for my stop motion lesson. Me and my team mates had cut out individual images from sources like magazines and newspaper's which thought we might of needed or not and with the ones we needed we moved them slowly at a time, creating a moving image animation.

This was mine, Kierens and Gemma's finally completion of our stop motion animation using cut-out images.

Clay Exercise

Clay Animation Exercise

The clay model I made in my first Stop-Motion animation taster lesson.

 

For my first stop-motion lesson I was asked to create a animation using clay models, so that is what I had done. Creating the dumb dumb statue from the 'Night of the museum' movie, when finally creating my animation I had him moving around and his noise falling off and then finally going back on.

 

 

This is my clay animation I finished in the same lesson.

Matt Groening and The Simpsons

Matt Groening and The Simpsons -

Matt Groening -
Born on February 15, 1954 in Portland, Oregon. Matthew the original writer and creator of The Simpson and Futurama. During Groenings childhood he started to become very interested in Cartooning soon after he attended the Evergreen State College. Attending Evergreen State College from 1972 to 1977, Matt did not have any grades to back up his education so he took up editing and writing stories, which is also were he started off with cartooning like his father.

During his animation career he did start off by writing about one of his favourites of Walt Disney himself , one hundred and dalmations. Then shortly after would get the ideas for The Simpsons.

Simpsons wiki. (n/a). Matt Groening. Available: Simpsons.Wiki.com/wiki/Matt_Groening.

The Simpsons -
The Simpsons is one of thr world famous's American Sitcom and one the longest running tv series on FOX which was first aired on April, 19, 1987 on the Tracey Gillian Show. The Simpson's is based around the five main characters Homer, Marge, Bart, Maggie and of cause Maggie and was created by Matt Groening himself. 

Lastly the Simpsons tv episode were only to last 22-24 minutes long and has made over aroung 26 seasons. Now been running for 25 years The Simpsons is still going strong and is best known for its humor, Politics, Society, Culture and History.

Simpsons wiki. (n/a). The Simpsons. Available: Simpsons.Wiki.com/wiki/The_Simpsons

Family Guy and South Park

Family Guy and South Park 

CREATES OF FAMILY GUY AND SOUTH PARK

Seth MacFarlane - 

Originally born in Kent, Connecticut, on October 26, 1973. MacFarlane was the creator of the famous tv show Family Guy. Growing up Seth was very interested in drawing and animation and for further education he went and enrolled at the Rhode Island school of design. At the school he decided to take video and animation.

Leaning more about animation McFlarlane was interested in the producer of Top Cat her self who was Hanna-Barbera. In 1995 Seth graduated from university and started improving his idea for Family Guy which was originally contained the beginning of 'Life of Larry'. 

Moving to Los Angeles Seth took the part of beginning his career on working and writing scripts for many popular television shows for example Johnny Bravo in 1997 and the Cow and Chicken in 1995 just shortly after he finished and graduated uni. 

Bio. (n/a). Seth MacFarlane Biography. Available: http://www.biography.com/people/seth-macfarlane-20624525. 

Family Guy -

During the pre-producton stages of Family Guy Seth had taken the liberty of doing the voices of the three main family members called Peter, Stewie and of cause Brian Griffin. For the past few years of Family Guy it was very appareling and humorous to the target audience and was also a big part of Seth's career until 2002 when the show was temporally cancelled as it wasn't quiet getting the attention of enough people, but of cause it wasn't the end of it. Family Guy was immediately recruited back on tv shortly after. 

Bio. (n/a). Seth MacFarlane Biography. Available: http://www.biography.com/people/seth-macfarlane-20624525. 

Trey Parker -
Born too Sharon and Randy Parker. Trey, was born on the 19th of October1969. During his childhood, Parker was most interested in Creativity which led him too attending Berkla college of Music, just shortly after graduation from Evergreen High School. But, he did not stay there long as he then moved to the University of Colorado where he studied two of his favourite subjects, Japanese and Music. During attending the University for a while Trey had met Matt Stone for the first time who will be at that time the second creater of the famous tv series South Park.

After knowing eachother for quite a while Trey and Matt decided to start animating with constructed paper. There first animation was called 'Jack vs Frosty'. Then after that was a big shot for them they created another in 1995 called 'Jesus and Santa" whih was evolved around 4 boys. 'Jesus and Santa' animation gave them both the first ideas for South Park. 

South Park -

South Park was oroginally a American sitcom which was premiered on August 13, 1997 which was aired on comedy central. During the years of South Park it is generally known that even though it was created by Matt Stone also it will only ever be best known for Trey Parker himself as the amount of developing he has put into it.

Only meant to be seem by adults South Park by the amount of violemce and sexual refrences etc.  It has been voted for a oscar nomination for best tv series animation.

Bio. (n/a). Trey Parker Biography. Available: http://www.biography.com/people/trey-parker-20989887.

The famous people. (n/a). Trey Parker Biography. Available: http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/trey-parker-4179.php.

Walt Disney and Steamboat Willie

Walt Disney -

Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Hermonosa, Illiois and was a famous producer and entrepreneur. Also known as Walter Elias Disney, Walt was best known for his famous cartoon animations like 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and 'Cinderella'. During his career Disney has won around 22 academy awards and was originally the founder of the famous theme park 'Disneyland' and 'Walt Disney World'.

Growing up Walt attended the 'Mckinley Hogh School' where he would study Photography and Drawing. 

In 1919 Walt Disney travelled to France to attend his first job which was a newspaper artist, then shortly after would start another which his brother Roy would pursue for him at the Pesman-Rubin Art Studio. During his other careers Walt would finally start working at the Kansas city film ad company where he would evenctually make commericals made from cut-out animation. This was the fist major step up for his career.

Shortly after in his much later years Walt would start experimenting with Cameras, hand drawing cel animation, Then would start up his first business. From there he would recruit his first employee named Frank Harman.

Walt Disney was diagnsed with lung cancer and died on December 15, 1966 age 65. 

n/a. (n/a). Walt Disney Biography. Available: http://www.biography.com/people/walt-disney-9275533.

Steamboat Willie -

Released on November 18, 1928, Steamboat Willie was the very first Micki Mouse animation containing sound. The history behind Steamboat Willie is that the animation was written and directed by Walt Disney himself and his good friend Ub Lwerbs who he met while working at the pusman-robin art studio.

During the Steamboat Willie plot it begins with Micki Mouse steering the wheel of the boat slowly and happily down the river, until Peg Leg Peter appears into the shot grabbing Micki be the torso and switching place with him.

Later on in the animstion Micki starts to come up with lots of revenge ideas for Peg Leg Peter like when he attempts to kick Micki in the face, but accidentally kicks himself instead.

The Disney Wiki. (n/a). Streamboat Willie. Available: http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Steamboat_Willie.

Diffterent types of animation

Cut Out Animation

Cut-Out Animation is where you cut-out different shapes which could be either props or people and move them a little bit at a time and capture the movement by taking pitchers too make it look as if they are moving. This type of animation can often result in 2D or 3d marvonette effect.

Cut-out animation can also be associated with Clay Animation, Stop motion and pixilation as they all use similar techniques for example taking lots of pitchures or shots to make a moving illusion sequence.

Examples of Cut-Out Animation

Adrien-Luc Sanders. (2015). What is cutout Animation. Available: http://animation.about.com/od/faqs/f/What-Is-Cutout-Animation.htm.

Cel Animation

Cel animation is originally used for the production of cartoons. Cel animation is all drawn by hand frame by frame. Throughout the hold animation process it is normally would require over a million drawings to complete it.

Cel based animation examples;

• Looney Tunes
• Simpsons
• Flintstones

Pixilation Animation

Pixilation Animation or also known as people animation is a animation technique were people move bit by bit and would get photographed while their doing it. Pixilation can also be associated with another such as; cut-out animation, but cut out is abit different as they use cut-out shapes and it also takes alot more effot and time.

Pixilation was also one of the first animation used for television and filming and was first founded by Norman McLaren.

Nodman McLaren was a very famous pixilation artist and is also best known for his first animation using people called Neighbors. Neighbors was about two friendly neighbors who ended up fighting over a beautiful flower which grew in the middle of their two gardens. Which after they ended up killing themselves.

Johnny Chew. (2015). What is pixilation. Available: http://animation.about.com/od/Stop-Motion/fl/What-is-Pixilation.htm. 

Animation on TV from the 1960's

TV Animation in 1960

Flintstones

The Flintstones are a family who live in a town named Bedrock and was a famous cartoon in the late 1900s. From 1960 to 1966 the Flintstones was premiered at the ABC primetime lineup and was featured for 6 years. 

The Flintstones was constructed of a dopey husband called Fred Flintstone and Barney who was more of a bubbly character, a dinosaur called Dino. They was also Vilma Flintstone who was known for being Patient and her daughter named Pebbles and finally Betty Rubble and her adopted son Bamm-Bamm. 

During the pre-production stages of the Flintstones the writers had associated the cartoon with the stone ages, which is why most of the names have rock names in them.

Erika Cox. (n/a). The Flintstones. Available: http://www.loti.com/sixties_TV/The_Flintstones.htm.

Top Cat

Top cat was originally produced by Hanne Barbara and was a popular tv animation in 1961.During the episodes of Top Cat it was set in the midst of New York City or also known as the 'city that never sleeps'.

During 1961 the Top Cat Series were boardcasted on a Wednesday at 8:30 till 9 and himself was voiced by Arnold astang. Top cat was about topcat and his 5 sidekicks called Benny the Ball, Franky-Franky, Spooke or foreground, cho-cho, The Brain and of cause the police man who tries too evict them all from their alley territory because they want to make a few pounds.

Wikia. (n/a). Topcat wiki. Available: topcat.wikia.com/wiki/top_cat_(series)

n/a. (n/a). Weston Animation: Top Cat. Available: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TopCat?from=Main.TopCat. 

Scooby Doo

Scooby-Doo was originally created in its first CBS network debut what was on Saturday, September 13, 1969 with its first episode called 'What a night for a Knight'.

The tv childrens cartoon was best known for it characters. They were scooby himself who was played by Dom Messick, Shaggy who was played by Casey Kason, Frank Walker as Fred, Nicole Jaffa as Velma and finally Stepaniannia Christophenson as Daphne.

The Scooby -Doo episodes would only last aound 25 minutes but was change instantly to a full half hour in 1972. Years later after the show was featured for two season and twenty-four episodes the show drifted to reruns of the real series, but then was moved to ABC shirtly after in 1976 where they would go on making other episodes.

During the later 1970s Scooby Doo intriduced another character who is still a popular character to date, he is Scrapoy Doo. Then later that year the company created another Scooby-Doo show featuring himself, Scrappy and Shaggy. It was named 'The new Scooby-Doo Mysteries.

From today the show that was only to last 52 episodes is now strected out to over a 26 episode series. Scooby-Doo is also known as one of the best loved cartoons of all time.

Scooby addics. (n/a). History. Available: Scoobyaddics.com/History.aspx. 

Animated Cartoons

Animated Cartoons:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs;

Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs was best known for the worlds first full-length animation feature and one of the first animation that Walt Disney created during his career. 

The film was featured by Walt Disney on December 21, 1937 and released in theatres by the RKO Radio Pictures on February 8th, 1938. In America Snow white was the first achieved animation featured. which included a beautiful girl called Snow White, Seven Dwarfs named; Doc, Sneezy, Sleepy, Dopey, Brighton, Happy and Bashful and of cause they prince Charming and Evil Queen. It was also classed as the most successful motion picture of the year of 1938.

Fleischer Brothers;

The Fleischer brother Max (July 19, 1889 - Sept 11, 1972) and Dave (July 14, 1894 0 June 15,1979) where american and are famous for creating two of the famous animation characters. Betty Boop and Popeye.

The brothers were known as Walt Disney's greatest Rivals. In 1921 Max and Dave opened their own studio and the studio soon entered the sound era in 1929 which was in order to compete with Disney's Steamboat Willie (1928). From animations like Betty Boop the Fleischer Brothers cartoons where best known for urban, gritty, dark and mainly obsessed with and death. 

In 1939 the bothers started working on a few animations to catch up with Walt Disney as he was extremely popular with snow white. It was called Gulliver's Travels.

During their career the brother worked on various projects. For example after returning to New York Max started working on different bray projects including some like the very early theatrical Koko films. Also the brothers were also known for partening up with different people like Lee DeForest where they worked n cartoon using sound. The cartoon was named 'My old Kentucky house' which was released in 1926. The cartoon was created two years before one of Walt Disney's famous cartoons 'Steamboat Willie'.

In 1929 the Fleischer Brothers studio made a major agreement with another famous animation company 'Paramount' who would distribute all of their films. It was the same year that the studio originally found its name.

Years later in 1941 the brothers finally decided to create one of the best known superheroes which is still around to day 'Superman'. Superman was nominated for the Academy Award and was and still is featured as one of the top 50 greatest cartoons of the time.

After all these years the Fleischer Brothers Studio is still alive because of some of the legend cartoons like Betty Boop and Superman and still will be in years to come.

References;

The Disney Wiki. (n/a). Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Available: http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs. 

The Fleischer Studios. (n/a). History. Available: http://www.fleischerstudios.com/history.html.

Pioneers and Early Animatiorn

Pioneers and Early Animations - 

George Melies - 

Maries George Jean Melies or also known as George Melies was born in 1861 in Paris, France and at a young age had many different hobbies and interests such as stage design and puppetry. George was an illusionist and a filmmaker and was famous for many things such as leading many technical and narrative developing in the earliest days of filmmaking and cinema.

In 1884 requested by his parents George moved to live in London, England to learn English and to work at his father's footwear business. Becoming manager in his father's factory in 1888 George was able to raise enough money to open and manage his own business by opening up a the old famous theatre Robert Houdin.

George Melier was also associated with the first people who created cinema, The Lumiere Brothers. In December 28, 1895, George turned up at one of their movies as one of the audience members and was very intrigued with their and equipment and tried his hardest to buy the camera they used but got turned down.

During his career as a filmmaker, George made hundreds of movies that did not contain any sound, some were made by illustrated images shot a photo at a time - Also can be known as Animation. 

Some of George Melies Movies;

• Card Party (1896)
• A trip to the moon / Le Voyage Dans la lune (1902)
• The Devilish Tenant (1909)

George Melier eventually died in 1938 after making around five hundred films. He was mainly Financing, directing, photographing or starring in his films.

Earlycinema. (n/a). Pioneers -George Melies. Available: www.earlycinema.com/pioneers/melies_bio.html.

Lotte Reiniger

Lotte Reiniger or also known as Charlotte Reiniger was a foremost pioneer of silhouette animator, who worked for Walt Disney for other 10 years and made over 40 films over her careers, which were all her own creations. Lotte was born in Berlin and from a very early age showed an exceptional interest in cut free-handed paper silhouettes. She used her silhouettes in her home made shadow theater located at her home. Lotte is also known as a prime genius behind all of her films.

During Lotte's life, she was married to a man called Karl Koch from 1921 to 1963 when he died on December 1st. He was also in the film business with Reiniger and played a big part within her career as he help her out with various projects she had planned to work on, like The adventure of prime Achmed.

Lotte Reiniger made her very first movie in 1926 which was called 'The adventure of prime Achmed' which is a german animation fairytale is one of the oldest surviving animation in the world.

Coming to her Silhouette drawing's Lotte drawn all of them including the storyboards and even developed and created her own plots and characters.

In 1929, lotte had directed a live-action feature film named 'The pursuit of happiness' which had no volume till years later when they edited so it looks like people are talking by adding voice over the movement of the youths.

Also, in the early 1920s lotte fled back to England leaving her negatives with her.

William Moriz. (1996). Lotte reiniger. Available: http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.3/articles/moritz1.3.html.

Winsor McCay
Winsor McCay was born on 1867 in Canada and was a very professional cartoon artist, who has created famous cartoon like 'The Gertie dinosaur (1914)' and 'Little Nemo: Adventures in Sumberland (1989).

Still attending college McCay started working at the Dime Museum were many unusual forms of art and entertainment was performed and shown like Freak Shows and other forms of entertainment.

At the age of 21 Winsor McCay left school to work for a printing company called the 'National printing company' which is located in Chicago, where he would illustrate posters etc. For many circuses and promotions. A few years later he came very well known as a talented artist at the kohl and Middleton dime museum.

Between 1891 and 1897 Winsor began to start a little family after marrying his first wife. They both has 2 children named Robert and Marion. His wife was called Maude Leonore Dufour.

In 1905, McCay started working on "Little Nemo In Slumberland" which was later released a short time later and was later produced as a Broadway Musical.

Then shortly After making "Little Nemo in Slumberland" Winsor popularity began to increase it which would eventually lead him to a leading role part in 'Speed Drawing".

In his much later years' Mccay went to go to work for William randolph Heast in New York City where he would make one of his most famous cartoon animations "Gertie the Dinosaur", but would still need improving nd Developed in 1914vthe hear it was created.

Finally still continuing to draw additional cartoon animations McCay never stopped pursuing his dream, until his emotional death on July 26, 1934, what was tragically over a stroke.

n/a. (). A brief biography og Winsor McCay. Available: http://vegalleries.com/winsorbio.html. 

Early animation devices

Early animation devices - Stop Motion Animation

ZoeTrope - 

A zoetrope is known as one the first moving image animation made. Being a film-animation device that produces a sequence of small drawings or photographs the zoetrope is made to give the illusion that the drawings are moving when really they are not. 

Thaumatrope - 

Popular in the early 19th century the Thaumatrope was and still is designed to give the illusion that the bird is really in the metal cage.

With the Thaumatrope the aim is too hold onto the strings on either side and move it forward and backwards until it looks like the bird is in the cage.

Phenakistoscope - 

The Phenakistoscope was designed by the use of motion principles to create one illusion which is motion.

Using the phenakistoscope you start off by using two disks which is normally mounted on the same axis. With the first disc having slots around the edges and the seconds containing pictures or drawings, when viewed in a mirror, looking through the first disc the pictures will eventually look like its moving.   

Kinetoscope -

Designed mainly for films. The Kinetoscope was a very early motion picture animation device. Also the Kinetoscope is only a one person view box where they would look through a small whole. 

Mutoscope -
Also an early motion picture device the Mutoscope is very much similar then the Kinetoscope.

Stop Motion Animation

Stop Motion Animation

Three different types of Stop Motion Animations - 

Clay Motion - 

Clay Motion is where you make your own characters out of what they call modelling clay and then moving the characters a tiny bit at a time and capture them one by one which will eventually look like the characters moving etc. For example Wallace and Grommet and Shawn the Sheep. 

Cutout Motion (Paper Motion) - 

Cutout Motion Animation is mainly used from bits cut out from magazines and newspapers. It is much easier then Clay Motion as it doesn't take as long and the basics of what you have to do is just move the pieces you have cut out and capture every time you move the pieces - to make it look like its moving.