Stop Motion Ebjective Motion

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Stop Motion using a camera – Stop-motion animation involves taking a process of pictures of a model, then moving it a small amount and taking the next photo. After this you then put all of the photos together and the small movements of the model appear to be a human-type action.
Stop motion animation is basically just a series of still photographs taken one after another. Objects are moved and filmed picture by picture to emphasise small movements that they make. Some examples of stop motion films are the original King Kong film and Star Wars. These were made using many small objects and puppets. In this time this was the only way that that could bring immovable objects to life on screen.

More full length films that are made using the stop motion effect -
• Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005)
• Chicken Run (2000)
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
• Coraline (2009)

Cel Animation – Cel animation can be said to be a method of using sheets of paper to draw cartoon frames. These sheets of paper are transparent so that you are able to lay them over one another and then be photographed. It is a very complicated and long process.
Cel based animation is where each cell is reproduced and variations are made to the next cel. This continues until there is a series of cels. Each cell is slightly different from the previous. It gives the appearance of movement and therefore animation.

A few examples of cel based animation is any of the Disney movies especially Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. All cels were hand drawn and painted in the film.

CGI Animation – CGI is basically special effects on computer graphics.
CGI is used in films, television programs and commercials, and in printed media such as new...

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...work. He had an effect on animation because he created new ways that animators could use in order to improve their animations.

Katsuhiro Otomo - Katsuhiro Otomo a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the creator of the manga film ’Akira’ and its animated film adaptation. Akira is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk action film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo. This had an impact on animation as he used anime to create a film. This would mean that more animators will begin to use this type of animation in their programmes and films.

David McKee - David McKee is a British writer and illustrator, chiefly of children's books and animations. Mr Benn is a character created by David McKee who appears in several children's books, and an animated television series of the same name originally transmitted by the BBC in 1971 and 1972.

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