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.
Thursday, 25 October 2012
Thursday, 18 October 2012
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.
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.
Thursday, 11 October 2012
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
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
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]
Thursday, 4 October 2012
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.
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