Animation

AnimationAnimation

Rapid displaySequence of imagesModel positionsAn illusion of movementBy computerTaking photographsDrawing''Anima'' means ''soul''

in Latin

Cartoon

Cinema, television, computer screenStory or plotBy computers or manuallyFrames: photographs of drawingsCelsUses a computer systemSoftware programs:

color the drawings, trace movements and effects

The Lion King 3 groups:

1. Full animation2. Limited animation3. Rotoscoping

Full animation: 1. High-quality 2. Detailed drawings3. Real movements4. Realistically designed- The Walt Disney studio 5. "Cartoony" style-The Warner Bros. Animationstudio Limited animation: 1. Less detailed2. More stylized drawings and

methodsof movement3. Cost-effective animated content-television and the Internet

Rotoscoping: 1. Live-action movement frame byframe2. Copied from actors' outlines3. The Lord of the Rings 4. Max Fleischer in 1917

Stop motion

Stop motion:1. Frame-by-frame2. Physically manipulating real-world objects3. Photographing one frame of

filmat a time to create the illusion

ofmovement4. Clay figures

Clay animation: 1. Clay or malleable material2.An armature or wire frame

Cutout animation:1. Unique technique 2. Flat characters, props, backgrounds3. Cut out from: paper, card, stiff fabric,photographs4. Computers5. The South Park TV series

Object animation:1. Non-drawn objects: toys, blocks, dolls2. Not fully malleable 3. Not designed 4. Human or animal character5. Combined with other forms 6. Brickfilm: LEGO

Silhouette animation:1. Black silhouettes2. Monochrome3. Black foreground4. Grey shade on background5. Cut out from black paper6. Strengthened with cardboard7. Tied together at joints8. Filmed top-down

Pixilation1. Live actors 2. Repeatedly posing 3. Living stop motion puppet4. Surreal effects: disappearances and reappearances

Puppet animation

The moving of the puppetsArmature inside of them Ongoing processIn 1898

Albert. E. Smith and J. Stuart Black"The Humpty Dumpty Circus"

Computer animation

Moving images Use of computersComputer graphics and animationDigitally created

2D animation: 1. 2D bitmap graphics2. 2D vector graphics3. Automated computerized versions:tweening, morphing, onion skinning, interpolated rotoscoping4. Example: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

3D animation:1. Digital models manipulated by animator2. Rigging3. Various other techniques: mathematical functions, particle simulations, simulation with fur or hair, effects fire and water, motion capture 4. Believable5. Examples: The Incredibles, Shrek, Finding Nemo