Animation An optical illusion of movement using 2

Animation An optical illusion of movement using 2 D and 3 D art.

Zeotrope � This is a common flip book and was an early popular animation devices invented during the 19 th century.

Thaumatrope �A thaumatrope is a toy that was popular in Victorian times. A disk or card with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to combine into a single image.

Kinetoscope � Invented by Thomas Edison � NOT a movie projector � Designed for films to be viewed individually through the window of a cabinet housing its components.

Walt Disney � The animation studio was first established on October 16, 1923. ◦ Steamboat Mickey � This was the same time sound was introduced to film � First Full Length animated feature was: ◦ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Traditional Animation � Called cel animation or hand-drawn animation � The individual frames of a traditionally animated film are photographs of drawings, which are first drawn on paper. � To create the illusion of movement, each drawing differs slightly from the one before it. � Eadweard Muybridge rotoscoped his traditional animations.

Full Animation � The process of producing high-quality traditionally animated films � Detailed drawings and plausible movement. ◦ Realistic: Beauty and the Beast, Lion King ◦ More Cartoony: The Iron Giant � High Production Value

Limited Animation � Less detailed and/or more stylized drawings and methods of movement. � Web cartoons or cartoon TV shows. � Mass Produce at less cost and time. � Examples: Spongebob Squarepants, Japanese animation.

Rotoscoping � Patented by Max Fleishner in 1917 � The animators trace live-action movement, frame by frame. � The source film can be directly copied from actors' outlines into animated drawings. ◦ Scanner Darkly and Lord of the Rings

Live-Action Animation � Combining hand-drawn characters into live action shots. � Set has to be moved with animation. ◦ Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Space Jams

Stopmotion Animation � animation created by physically manipulating real-world objects and photographing them one frame of film at a time to create the illusion of movement. ◦ ◦ Puppet Animation: The Nightmare Before Christmas Claymation: Gumby Cut-out Animation: South Park Model Animation: King Kong

2 D/3 D Animation � 2 D Animation figures are created and/or edited on the computer using 2 D bitmap graphics or created and edited using 2 D Vector Graphics. � 3 D Animation is digitally modeled and manipulated by an animator. To manipulate a mesh, it is given a digital skeletal structure that can be used to control the mesh. This process is called rigging. � CGI: Computer Generated Images