Animation

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ICT Assignment

Animation is the core element to any cartoon or 3D animation. Animation along the years has only been getting better and better as from for example the first toy story movie was a major success in 3D animation, but it all followed the same principal as any other which is doing it by key frames and its like an optical illusion for it requires several still images one after the other rapidly played through. Through the assessment I will be thoroughly taking you through what exactly animation is.

Animation before Walt Disney was very old fashion and yet still quite technical for example the phenakitstoscope is a set of two disks mounted on the same axis the first circle containing slots around the edge and the second having pictures drawn in a concentric circle how it would work is by whilst spinning the two circles together, if looked into by a mirror the images should successfully progress one after the other as if it was a moving picture. The success of the phenakitstoscope was short lived after 2 years for a man named William George Horner invented the zoetrope which had two improvements to it, one being it did not require a mirror anymore and two being more then one person could view it. Another similar invention known as the kinetoscope was similar to the phenakitstoscope for it still allowed people to see moving pictures , although the invention was not a success it inspired other inventors ad was considered a landmark in the history of film.

The animation of Walt Disney first kicked off with early animations such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Gallopin' Gaucho, Plane Crazy. During this early stage of animation these animations were mute and had no sound this eventually changed when the animat...

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...ng better and better , with more featured films to come out with mixed CGI , it seems we will only get to see better , Walt Disney and Pixar Movies only doing better by the year. And yet to add many movies now day, you may not even realize that 3D animation has been done in the movie and it will all look only to real for you.

In conclusion to all this in the future I can see only improvement as technology itself is improving. Things such as virtual worlds will come into place soon enough, where the person will himself be able to control a 3D object wearing some possible device, the Nintendo Wii being an example.

Works Cited

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenakistoscope

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetoscope

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Animation_Studios

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Boy

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story

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