Time Lapse

Time lapse is a series of photos, depending on what your time lapsing how many photos are took, or a recording sped up to create a fast speed video.
This is an example of a time lapse taken from space by NASA of Hurricane Sandy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20129277
I think this is a very good example of a time lapse and shows things through a period of time. The way the photos have been taken you cannot tell that it was a time lapse.

another example is of this video from YouTube showing someone growing facial hair over a long period of time:


 I think this works well because i like the way the pictures are very short and snippy which make the time lapse look very interesting.

To create a time lapse you set a camera up in a certain place you want to record. You then have to set the camera up to take a picture every few hours or even days to see what has changed, next you then go back to the camera after a certain period of time to see what the photos are like. You then use all the photos to create a video animation.

Cut Out Animation!

Cut Out Animation

Cut out animation is a form of animation made from paper, fabrics, photographs or anything on a flat surface to create an animation.

This is an example of a Japanese independent animation made in 2007 called RiRi made by Miyuki Hostani



 I like the style of this animation but I'm not sure on the story line, the difference between this and american cut out animation such as South Park is massive,
here is a video of an example of South Park:
Warning, this has swearing in so please watch in a controlled environment!




 South Park was created in 1997 by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for comedy central.
Both videos are similar due to the animation but both completely different considering the quaility.





This is my own ideas for a cut out animation:

There are two pieces to the body so we can make it move, we then have two dogs heads to create a head for the body showing different emotions.
We plan to make the leg move up and down and while this is happening the heads will change using the dogs head.



This is a photo of my person with the background we used:

This is my own cut out animation video:


To create a cut out animation you first of all need a story line for the idea, you then have to create a background for your animation. I then found the pictures i needed to make the story. I had another person to help me take the pictures and move the things ever so slightly so it didn't look to obvious. I used iStop motion to take the pictures as it is the best software to use.

My Carrot Animation

This is my animation of a plaster scene carrot which has been eaten, i used istop animation and a camera to take this video.

Model Based Animation!

Model based animation is a form of stop motion animation designed to create an illusion of a real world fantasy sequence. It is loads of photos taken together to become a sort of real life video.
Model animation was first created by Willis O'Brien, it was first used for 'The Lost World' in 1925. The Lost World was a silent fantasy adventure film created from the 1912 novel.

 The film has real footage of humans acting in, but the animals are model based.

These are a few model based animations that i have found on the internet:

Despicable Me, the animated film:


This is also another example of a short film called The Crab:



I then made my own animation, I thought about creating an animation about a type of food getting eaten which I thought was easiest. I then had a look at the colours which were available and orange was the most so i thought i'd create a carrot. While making my carrot i thought that it would be more interesting to make it have eyes and a mouth.

This is my plastercene model of a human carrot, i made this by using orange green white black red and brown colours, i then used a cutter to get my plaster scene into shape to create the shapes. I am pleased with my human carrot and i am proud of how it went!

1980's to Present animation!

Animation has changed alot in the many years, the audience is no longer aimed at young children anymore but teens, as software has grown and become alot better than it was before, this has made it become alot more appealing to other viewers as programmes like Family Guy, The Simpsons, South Park and many more have the audience of late teens early 20's.

The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an american sitcom created by Matt Groening for Fox Broadcasting Company, in 1987.
From airing 510 episodes and releasing the 24th season in 2012, the Simpsons is the longest running american sitcom, also the longest running American animated program and also released its own movie, in 2007.




Family Guy

Family Guy is an American sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company in 1998 and in 2001 bringing out the third series.
It has 11 Annie awards, been nominated for 12 Primetime Emmy awards, one was for Outstanding Comedy Series, which was the first time an animated series had been nominated since The Flinstones in 1961.
Family Guy has its very own disfuntional family, Peter and Lois, Meg, Chris, Stewie and Brian set in the city of Quahog in Rhode Island.





Futurama

Futurama is a sciene fiction American animated sitcom, created by Matt Groening, with the help of David X. Cohen fo the Fox Broadcasting Company.
It is based on a late 20th century pizza delivery boy who was frzen for 1 thousand years, who then finds employment at another Pizza Delivery place in the future of the 31st century.
It was first aired on Fox in 1999 and then changed over to Cartoon Network and then Comedy Central finishing in 2009. The show has now been renewed for a 7th series to air in 2013.





Spongebob Squarepants

Spongebob was created by animator Stephen Hillenburg in 1999. This series was extremely popular and prompted the release for a media franchise, keeping its position as Nickelodeons highest rated show, its also one of nicktoons most watched shows and is listen 15th in IGN's top 100 animated series'.
Spongebob also has a feature film of the series which was released in 2004, it has 334 aired episodes and is Nickelodeons longest running cartoon.

Pixilation - my Animation

I used the program 'iStopMotion' to create my animation, we used a 4x3 size recorder, and the frame rate was set for 12 images per second.
We exported the video to DV-PAL.


We then uploaded our video onto youtube and used the embed code to put onto our blog!

I think over all our animation went well and i was pleased with how it turned out and i thought our idea was very creative.
I would change the setting in future as i was the person in the animation i found it hard to work around the Mac computer so maybe a different setting without people walking around in the background may of worked well, but over all i thought our animation was a success.


To create my pixilation cut out, me and my group first of all thought of a story line of what we could take pictures of, we then used iStop motion to take the series of photos. We then took the series of pictures moving the body ever so slightly so it didn't look to obvious that it was pictures and not a video. We then exported the photos at the end to then for it to be created into a video.

Animation 1950s-1970s

Animation in the 1950's - 1970's

In the 1950's to the 70's animation developed more and more including colour and more and more became popular on the TV.
These are found animators/companies i am going to discuss:
- Hanna Barbera
- Looney Tunes
- Oliver Postgate
- Ray Harryhausen

Hannah Barbera Productions was an American animation studio formed in 1957 by animation director William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Hannah Barbera Productions were in partnership with Columbia Pictures Screen Gems television.  It dominatied North American television animation for just three decades producing work such as Flintstones, Scooby Doo, Top Cat and many more.

In 1959 H-B Enterprises, Inc. was renamed Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. which then went on to produce animations such as Tom and Jerry, The Smurfs, The Yogi Bear Show and many more.

This is an example of one of Hanna Barbera Productions Inc's work:





Looney Tunes in Warner Brothers animated cartoon series, since Sinkin' in the Bathtub which was released in the 1930's the series became a worldwide media franchise, creating several TV series, films, comics video games and many more including amusement park rides.
These series include some of the most famous cartoon characters in history including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, The Tazmanian Devil, Tweety Bird and many more.

From 1942 - 1969 Looney Tunes was the most popular short cartoon series in TV and theaters. Looney Tunes is a variation on Silly Symphonies which was the current name of Walt Disney's series of music based short cartoons.

This is an example of one of the series' from Looney Tunes:

Oliver Postgate

Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008) was an English animator, puppeteer and writer.^[1]

He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes. Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up withPeter Firmin, and were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day. In a 1999 poll, Bagpuss was voted the most popular children's television programme of all time.^[2]

Animation 1930s-1950s.

Animation 1930-1950's.
There are many different famous animators on the 1930's to the 1950's, i am going to talk about these four:
- Norman Maclaren
- Walt Disney
- Ray Harryhausen
- Fleisher Brothers






Norman Maclaren was a scottish born canadian animator and film director, mostly known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada.

He has many awards including an oscar for the best documentary in 1952 for one of his most famous pieces of work, Neighbours.



He also won a silver bear for the best short documentary at the 1956 Berlin Interntional film festival rythmetic and a 1969 BAFTA award for best animated film for Pas De Deux.

He made 7 short animation films during this time period, such as:
- Boogie Doodle (1940)
- Hen Hop (1942)
- Begone Dull Dare (1949)
- Neighbours (1952)
- Blinkity Blank (1955)
- Rythmetic (1956)
- A chairy tale (1957)
And there was many more to come after this also. He became one of the most famous animators of this time period and for many years after also.

Pioneers of Animation

The Three godfathers of Animation! 

There are three main people in animation from the 1900's are:
- George Melies
- Lotte Reiniger
- Winsor McCay
George Melies was a film maker who was very famous in the early days of cinema. He was one of the first to filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time lapse photography, dissolves and hand-painted colour in his work, he was also the first to discover the substitution of special effects which is called stop trick in 1896. Melies to most famous films were 'A Trip to the Moon' (1902) and 'The Impossible Voyage' (1904).


This is an example of one of his famous pieces, 'A Trip to the Moon'

Lotte Reiniger was a german silhouette animator and film director in the 1910-1970's. in 1918 she animated Wooden Rats. the first film she directed was Das Ornament des verliebten Herzens (The Ornament of the Enamoured Heart, 1919).







This is an example of one of her work called 'Cinderella'






Winsor McCay was an American cartoonist and animator, his most famous work was the comic strip 'Little Nemo' which begun in 1905, also the animated cartoon Gertie the Dinosaur, 1914.  Winsor's comic strip work has influenced generations of artists and also created a standard followed by Walt Disney and others later in the decade. McCay also created many short animated films in which every frame consisted of hand drawn work done by himself and his assistants.


This is an example of one of his famous pieces, 'Gertie the Dinosaur'

Persistence of Vision

Persistence of Vision means that the eye gets tricked into thinking that a series of pictures is a moving image, as each photo is shown for a very short period of time and each image is changed ever so slightly to make it look like a moving image.

There are a few examples of 'Persistence of Vision' such as:

- Zoetrope

- Kinetoscope

- Mutoscope

- Thaumoscope

- Phenakiscope

This is an example of a Zoetrope.

Zoetrope is a cylinder with slits in and certain images, this cylinder gets span round to give you the illusion of the still images moving. The earliest Zoetrope was created in China around 180 AD by Ting Huan. Then the modern zoetrope was invented in 1833 by William George Horner, a british mathematician. William named this the 'daedalum' which has a reference to the Greek myth of Daedalus. This didn't become popular until the 1860's.
Zoetrope means the wheel of life.
It can also be used for many other things, such as something over a period of time, or a story or many other things.
This is an example of a life story: