An optical illusion of movement using 2D and 3D art.

AnimationAn optical illusion of movement using 2D and 3D art.

This is a common flip book and was an early popular animation devices invented during the 19th century.

Zeotrope

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.

Thaumatrope

Invented by Thomas Edison NOT a movie projector Designed for films to be

viewed individually through the window of a cabinet housing its components.

Kinetoscope

The animation studio was first established on October 16, 1923.◦ Steamboat Mickey

This was the same time sound was introduced to film

First Full Length animated feature was:◦ Snow White and the Seven

Dwarfs

Walt Disney

Called cel animation or hand-drawn animation The individual frames of a traditionally animated film are

photographs of drawings, which are first drawn on paper. To create the illusion of movement, each drawing differs

slightly from the one before it. Eadweard Muybridge rotoscoped his traditional

animations.

Traditional Animation

The process of producing high-quality traditionally animated films

Detailed drawings and plausible movement.◦ Realistic: Beauty and the Beast, Lion King◦ More Cartoony: The Iron Giant

High Production Value

Full Animation

Less detailed and/or more stylized drawings and methods of movement.

Web cartoons or cartoon TV shows. Mass Produce at less cost and time. Examples: Spongebob Squarepants,

Japanese animation.

Limited Animation

Patented by Max Fleishner in 1917 The animators trace live-action movement,

frame by frame. The source film can be directly copied from

actors' outlines into animated drawings.◦ Scanner Darkly and Lord of the Rings

Rotoscoping

Combining hand-drawn characters into live action shots.

Set has to be moved with animation.◦ Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Space Jams

Live-Action Animation

animation created by physically manipulating real-world objects and photographing them one frame of film at a time to create the illusion of movement.◦ Puppet Animation: The Nightmare Before

Christmas◦ Claymation: Gumby◦ Cut-out Animation: South Park◦ Model Animation: King Kong

Stopmotion Animation

2D Animation figures are created and/or edited on the computer using 2D bitmap graphics or created and edited using 2D Vector Graphics.

3D Animation is digitally modeled and manipulated by an animator. To manipulate a mesh, it is given a digital skeletal structure that can be used to control the mesh. This process is called rigging.

CGI: Computer Generated Images

2D/3D Animation