Introduction Animation is the process of making the illusion of motion and the illusion of change by means of the rapid succession of sequential images that minimally differ from each other. The process of animation has been going on for centuries even before film was even invented. We have been depicting the process of motion for as long as we’ve been alive. Examples of this is shown in ancient artifacts as humans have created art to depict motion such as a goat leaping (Shahr-E Sukhteh). However, during the years, animation started to change and develop. We used machines throughout 1603-1877 to produce motion pictures and soon animators used stop motion photography and hand drawn animation to create animated cartoons. An animator who made …show more content…
He was one of five children. Walter spent most of his time in Marceline, Missouri, where he began to draw and paint and soon sold his art to family and friends. He attended McKinley High School in Chicago, where he took drawing and photography classes and was a contributing cartoonist for the school paper. Once he graduated by age 16, he attended the Art Institute in Chicago but soon dropped out to join the army. However, since Walter was underage, they rejected him. Instead he went to France and joined the Red Cross where he drove an ambulance for a year and later returned to the U.S. by 1919.
Career
Walter moved to Kansas to pursue working as a newspaper artist. His brother, Roy then got him a job at the Pesmen-Ruin Art Studio, where he met Ubbe Eert Iwwerks, better known as Ub Iwerks, a cartoonist. He later worked at the Kansas City Film Ad Company and made commercials and cutout board animations. This helped Walter gain experience with the camera and later he decided that he would open his own business. Fred Harman from the Film Ad Company was his first employee. The two then made a contract with the local Kansas City theater to screen their cartoons that they called Laugh-O-Grams. It became popular which helped Disney acquire his own studio. The Laugh-O-Gram hired Harman, Harman’s brother Hugh and Iwerks and they soon started their show, Alice in Cartoon Land. By 1923, the studio however, became
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Both brothers and Iwerks, who also moved to California, began the Disney Brother’s Studio in 1923. Margret Winkler gave them their first deal to distribute the Alice cartoons. Soon they also invented Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and contracted the shorts to $1.5k each. Disney soon found out that Winkler and her husband stole the rights to Oswald and all of Disney’s animators except for Iwerks’. Right away, they made three cartoons featuring a character that Walter had been developing, Mickey Mouse. Two of the films were silent films which failed distribution. However, when sound made its way into filmmaking, Disney created a third, sound-and-music equipped short called Steamboat Willie in 1928; with Walt as the voice of his newly developed character. The cartoon skyrocketed in
At the age of fourteen he dropped out of school to work as painter in railroad yards (ffrf.org).
(SOURCE: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096438/ https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-16-209/with-20000-leagues-the-national-film-registry-reaches-700/2016-12-14) PLOT SUMMARY In the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, cartoons live alongside real humans and among them He once loved being around toons until one case where his brother was killed by one. Eddie is also a drunk who has a tab that needs to be paid at the bar so he gets some petty jobs. One of those jobs was taking pictures of Marvin Acme, the owner of Acme Company and owner of Toontown, playing patty cake with Jessica Rabbit.
Disney partnered up with his older brother and old partner, Ub Iwerks, and began producing a cartoon short for Mickey Mouse, called Steamboat Willie. During the production of Steamboat Willie, Disney watched the Jazz Singer and became intrigued at the idea of synchronized sound.
Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in Hermosa, Illinois. He was one of five children, four boys and one girl, born to Elias Disney and Flora Call Disney. His father was of Irish-Canadian descent and his mother was of German descent. Although he was born in Hermosa, he lived most of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri. When he was seven, instead of doing schoolwork like he was supposed to, he sold sketches. Most of these sketches were pictures of animals and nature. At one time, his sister helped him paint the side of the barn with tar. As he was growing up, he fell in love with trains. At night, he would lie in bed and listen to the trains go by, for he lived near a train track. This is the reason for the trains that go around Walt Disney Land and Walt Disney World.
Disney and his brother, Roy, pooled their money together and moved to Hollywood to create the Disney Brother’s Studio. (“Walt Disney”) Earlier in life, Disney had created a cartoon in Kansas City about a little girl in a cartoon world, called Alice’s Wonderland. The team decided to use it as a “pilot” film to sell a series of these “Alice Comedies.” On October 16, 1923, a distributor in New York, M. J. Winker, contacted Walt to distribute the “Alice Comedies.” After that day, the Disney Company became the start of something magical and very successful. Originally known as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio because Walt and Roy were equal partners, the company name then changed to Walt Disney Studio, with the request of Roy. ("A History of the Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5th, 1901, in Chicago. He was the fourth of five children, having three brothers, Herbert, Raymond, and Roy, when he was born. In 1903, parents Elias and Flora added a daughter, Ruth, to the family. Elias worried about big-city life, so the Disney family moved to a farm near Marceline, Missouri, in 1906 (Jaffe 7). Walt’s job on the farm was to take care of the animals, many of which would inspire his famous characters later in life (“Walt Disney”). These beloved animals were also the subjects of Walt’s first sketches.
The Disney Brothers Studios was founded by Walt and Roy Disney in October of 1923. As the brothers increased their reach in the entertainment market, this small studio evolved into the corporate giant known today as the Walt Disney Company which has interests in entertainment and media enterprises including Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, The Walt Disney Studios, ABC, Inc., ESPN, Disney Channel, Disney Stores, television and radio stations and Internet websites.
The Real Walt Disney Walt Disney as a real man. Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois to his parents, Elias Disney, an Irish Canadian, and Flora Call Disney, a German American. Walt was one of four children. Walt and his brother Roy and sister Ruth grew up in Chicago, where they attended Benton Grammar School together. He worked hard throughout his schooling and helped support his family during difficult times.
“During the fall of 1918, Disney tried to get into the military service. He got rejected because he was under age, only sixteen years old at the time. Instead, Walt joined the Red Cross and was sent overseas to France, where he spent a year driving an ambulance and taking Red Cross official places. When he returned from France, he wanted to get a job in commercial art, which led him into animation.” (Brad A.) He created animated films in Kansas City. Walt Disney started to create short animated films called the Alice Comedies. The Alice Comedies were about a girl in an animated world and her adventures she has. He moved to California to try to start a business and his brother Roy O. Disney who was already in California. It soon became too expensive to handle...
If any one has ever watched some of the really old animation such as Steamboat Willy done by Walt Disney Studios in the late 1920’s or some of the animations showing up on the Internet nowadays. They know that animation has come a long way and is still improving.
In this chapter, it has shown a brief history of animation and how it started in the early days of animation. It also discussed about 2D in brief and 3D. Also the techniques applied in making of animation since early ages with the evolution of 2D to 3D animation.
Animation is a visual technique that creates the illusion of motion, rather than recording motion through live action. The technique is used mainly for motion pictures. Animation can be created by illustrators, filmmakers, video makers, and computer specialists. Animation is most popular in creating cartoon movies. Advertisers also employ animation to develop commercials for television. In addition, producers of instructional films may use animation to help explain a difficult idea or one that could not be shown in live action. Animation can also be combined with live action in a movie. Many animators continue to make many drawings by hand. Since the mid-1980's, however, computer assistance combined with hand-drawn animation has become standard in many movie studios. These methods created such feature-length animated films as The Lion King (1994) and The Prince of Egypt (1998).
Animation, like any other creative art, requires a successful animator to be: patient, talented, disciplined, and willing to work hard. Among the term animation are subcategories such as: character and effects. Character animation is the hardest, in that is requires the most skill. The animator must have a critical eye for every detail that goes into the final project. Character animation can also be broken up into its own subcategories such as: 2D, 3D, traditional, stop motion, and motion graphics. However, 2D and 3D are the most commonly pursued. Regardless if the project is generated by hand or by computer, the overall goal of the animator is to entertain. The animator must have both a clear concept of how to entertain the audience, and
Computer Graphics is the bond between humans and computers. Computer graphics is a large field that branches into almost all fields of computer science; however its roots are young. Computer graphics has massively grown over the past 40 years and is now our primary means of communication with computer applications. Do to technological limitations in the 1950s, computer graphics began as a small, specialized field. The Whirlwind project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is marked as the origin of computer graphics (Machover 14).
Animations are a series of drawings, computer graphics, or photographs of objects, like puppets and models, which are different from each to create a variety of entertainment for the audiences. Animations are what brings excitement and mystery, hooking the audience in through interest. It is a form of some sort of “magic” where things that aren’t real but from the imagination comes to life in front of people who live these mundane, ordinary lives, adding color to the eyes and mind. The creators of such amazing arts and creation are animators.