Animation

Hand Drawn Animation• Traditional animation, also referred to as

classical animation, or hand-drawnanimation, is the oldest and historicallythe most popular form of animation. In atraditionally-animated cartoon, eachframe is drawn by hand

• Disney used this type of animation,some animators, even those working inthe industry today, choose to use thetraditional drawn method. Others usecomputer programmes that simulate thetraditional method such as photoshop

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUVUL0ZF_EY

Stop Motion AnimationStop-motion animation, is the term used to describe animation created by physicallymanipulating real-world objects and photographing them one frame of film at a time tocreate the illusion of movement.

There are many different types of stop-motion animation, usually named after the type ofmedia used to create the animation, these include:• Cutout animation• Claymation animation• Model animation (like the classic King-Kong)• Object animation• Puppet animation

Cutout AnimationCutout animation is a unique

technique for producinganimations using flatcharacters, props and

backgrounds cut from materialssuch as paper, card, stiff fabric

or even photographs.

The world's earliest knownanimated feature films werecutout animations (made in

Argentina by Quirino Cristianias early as 1917)

Angela Anaconda is acontemporary example of theuse of cutout animation. Theprogramme combines black-and-white photographs withcutout-style CGI animation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utgXR6k-P1s

Clay Animation/Claymation• In clay animation, which is one of the many

forms of stop motion animation, each objectis sculpted in clay or a similarly pliablematerial such as Plasticine, usually around awire skeleton called an armature.

• Producing a stop motion animation using clayis extremely laborious. 12 changes are usuallymade for one second of film movement. For a30-minute movie, there would beapproximately 21,600 stops to change thefigures for the frames. For a full length (90min) movie, there would be approximately64,800 stops and possibly far more if partswere shot with "singles" or "ones" (one frameexposed for each shot). Great care must betaken to ensure the object is not altered byaccident, by even slight smudges, dirt, hair, oreven dust. For feature-length productions, theuse of clay has generally been supplanted byrubber silicone and resin-cast components.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhczFRlBT2E Gumby, an animated character first seenon TV in 1954

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDs8VMz-cuc The Trap Door intro. Claymation TV seriesfrom 1984, ran for 40 episodes

Computer animation• Computer animation

encompasses a variety oftechniques, the unifying ideabeing that the animation is createddigitally on a computer.

• The term covers 2D animationusing Flash to the CGi techniquesused in Pixarʼs many successfulfilms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5YmIS57J9E