Early animation
Flick book animation originated in September 1868, under the original patent it was called a ‘kineograph’ which just means moving picture. The patent was taking out by a John Barnes Linnet, the flip book was the first 2D animation two feature the a linear sequence of frame by frame technology. The flipbook would work by quickly running your thumb through a book filled with pictures, the fast movement of the pages would represent animation and each image would be slightly difference from the last. Flip books continued to be made through out the 19th and early 20th century. But in modern days they are now considered a novelty item or a toy. This was early form of 2D animation and lead on to much bigger work with linear sequence animation. For example shows like South Park still use a part of this technology. In my personal opinion I think these are a incredibly smart form of animation that uses no power, but just man power. But for me these stick to a toy or a fun thing to do with a youngster.
Cel animation is short for celluloid and it is the process of animation that takes hand drawn images to a next level. First a artist will draw a single frame on a cel will give you your first frame of millions, in order to make animation this way you need to have lots of drawings slowly moving in a frame by frame nature, roughly 25 frames per second. In 1989 Disney made a film called the little mermaid and a single cell from that film goes for around £5,000. In early cell animation a lot of the backgrounds and objects where reused to make the whole drawing a 1,000,000 slides much easier.
Rotoscoping is an animation technique that was designed to give a much more realistic looking 3D animation. It works by taking the real frames...
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• PNG - Portable Network Graphics
• PCX - Personal Computer exchange
• TIFF - Tagged Image File Format
• PSD - Photoshop Document
Vector is the complete opposite type of graphic compared to bitmaps. Vectors work by having mathematical equations to work out what way the animation is going rather than pixels. This means that they be made as larger or as smaller as possible without losing any quality.
The picture represents the difference between a vector and bitmap, the most used form of a vector is a font. They are made to be huge and also made to look good as a small size.
In the animation world this is good because they are always editable and a high quality can be made instantly. Because of their very large size it’s important to compress the final product to a bitmap format.
Types of animation software
Adobe flash usually called macromedia flash
Some of the special effect used in these films are animation. For example, the penguin scene in Mary Poppins. Another example of this is transitioning and flashbacks. An
The Stories Behind Lotte Reiniger’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed The word “animation” defines as the technique of photographic successive drawings to create an illusion of movement, bringing a sense of life and vigor. Animation is usually associated with a sequence of drawings, bringing fluidity and character to a sketch. The same is said to miniature models, by the use of stop-motion; but what about cutouts?
If you gamers have ever played the Nintendo Entertainment System or the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, then you know that games used to be 8-bit and 16-bit. This means that games used to be very poor in graphics. They didn’t have the capacity for many detailed designs.
Vector based – Vector based software is important when it comes to creating and editing images as these types of software allow you to compose and edit many different vector graphic images interactively on a computer and save them in one of many different formats such as EPS, VML, SVG and many more different
In the 1980’s animation hit it peak with feature films, animated television, commercial that was paying very well, bands, and music videos. Stop motion animation was being the star in animation. Cable television shows would hire stop-motion animators to create their logo entirely with stop-motion animations, one network that did this was MTV. Also, some music videos would be completely done with stop-motion animation. Stop motion animation was almost used everywhere. Will Vinton created an animation studio that would produce the most iconic character today like the stop motion of Noid and the California Raisins made in clay for a commercial. These characters would become bigger than the brands they were to promote. “ Films such as Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Dragon Slayer, and Robocop would be filled with stop-motion visual effects to the point that the lines between reality and the imagined were so well blurred, many people thought it just couldn’t get any
Department of Labor (DOL).As you know, animators help create television shows, movies and video games. But besides the obvious, there are many lesser-known instances where animation is used. “I grew up thinking that animators all worked for a movie studio or cartoon show studios, and it is simply not the case,” says Jordyn Bowers, 3D Animator for InventHelp.“Animators are everywhere,” Bowers explains. “Animators do commercials, motion graphics, special effects, advertisements on the internet, medical explanations, recreating crime scenes for forensics … there are too many to list!”One of Bowers’ roles is to create videos of 3D renderings and computer-generated animation to illustrate the main function of an invention idea. These Virtual Invention Presentations give viewers a better understanding of how an invention would work.Some other unique examples of animation jobs include designing animated graphics for websites, producing simulations for military practices and creating virtual tours of building architecture or model
How to summarize Hayao Miyazaki in a few words? Brilliant, magical, ecologist, fantastic, cultural, wise, a true master of his art: animation. The Japanese director is one of the most iconic and undisputed great film directors of our times. Over a career than spanned five decades, Miyazaki has vowed to enchant, mesmerize and enlighten the viewers willing to take the plunge into the master 's lyrical worlds.
Alexandre Alexeieff created many remarkable animations aimed towards the adult viewer. Night on Bald Mountain was one of his first to use a completely different technique than anyone in his time had used. His partner, Clair Parker, and he challenged the conventional works of animation inventing one of the most time consuming and rigorous techniques of all. Alexeieff and Parker created the Pinscreen animation. Pinscreen animation makes use of a screen filled with movable pins, which can be moved in or out by pressing an object onto the screen. The screen is lit from the side so that the pins cast shadows. The technique has been used to create animated films with a range of textural effects difficult to achieve with any other animation technique. The technique of the pinscreen made it impossible to erase any of the images that had been shot after having drawn them. One had to wait until the film was back from the laboratory. Therefore two years of work had been conceived in the dark so to speak. Adding to the impermanence of the pinscreen itself, Alexeieff made no sketches for the film, composing each shot in his head and filming them immediately. This technique gave Night on Bald Mountain dimension which had never been done in the animation genre.
In the beginning of animation, animators created images using pen and paper. They were then arranged to give the illusion of movement and depth. This type of animation is called traditional or 2D animation. This style is a great option if the animator is working with characters and want the benefits of a hand drawn quality. However, with 2D animation the animator would need to start completely from a scratch piece of paper to change the camera angle for a scene. Also, truth is fewer and fewer animators can create drawings needed to make a beautiful 2D animation. Today, animators have turned more to 3D animation. 3D animations are created on a computer, with modeling programs to produce a much more realistic and complex animation experience. What helps in making a lifelike animation, is the simple fact that it can be viewed and lit from all angles. 3D animation also adds textures that can be placed into live scenes and elements. This style can work for any concept and offers flexible, customizable, and an overall fluid motion. A friend (a non-animator) of J.K. Riki was asked why he thought 3D compared to 2D was “more real”. He replied and said, “blurs the line between fantasy and reality” and “a child’s daydream – and all other ages – is theoretically 3D, so it’s like their fantasies come to life”. However, what an animator must know is to achieve beautiful movement within the animation, animators must apply the same principles that apply to 2D. Just because it 3D is done digitally, doesn’t mean it is done completely for the
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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.
Computer technology invades the film industry. The existence of computers have aided in the production of genres of film ranging from action movie special effects, to cartoon animation and claymation. Computer Generated Imagery, better known as CGI, assists filmmakers in many ways. An image can be made two-dimensional from a three-dimensional scene, camera angles can be altered to make a character seem larger and thus more important than its surrounding bodies, and colors can be brightened or neutralized, among other things (Parsons, Oja 1). Without the aid of computers, movies would not have the ability to be what they are today.
The Role of Computer Generated Imagery in the Film Industry Computer Generated Imagery is the special effects used in motion pictures to create a visual depiction of an illusion that can not be easily created in real life. Directors of major motion pictures have been using these technologies since the early days of the personal computer. Early on, when and special effects were in their beginning stages, it was difficult to make efficient and effective effects that are well accepted by the movie critics and the general public. An evolution of special effects and the introduction of computerized animation brought the standards for movie effects to a higher level. The development of new methods of Computer Generated Imagery for less money and more effective than in the past has allowed even fairly low budget movies to incorporate such technology.
Infographics are so popular because audiences can absorb the information quickly and conveniently. It today’s hectic, fast-paced world, anything that is quick and convenient is seen as desirable.
Pictures, images or graphics are a very useful way of brightening up a document and making it more appealing and interesting for the end user. Graphics can be added to Word in a variety of ways, including inserting; Pictures, Clip Art, Shapes and SmartArt. When images are added to a document it is important to consider the graphic formatting options available, such as cropping, wrapping, styles, effects and position (graphics will be discussed in detail in LO2).