What is Motion What is Motion Motion is

What is Motion? Motion is the action or process of moving or of changing

Why is Time important? Without Time, there can be no method to calculate movement

Pictures in Motion Your eye acts like a movie projector, capturing a series of

Pictures in Motion Hollywood and Television productions are created by using 72 frames-persecond processing.

Origin of Animation: Walt Disney • Walt Disney helped pioneer American animation. • His

Onion Skinning? ? ? Onion Skinning refers to the type of paper that animators

“Ogres are like Onions” - Shrek §Because Ogres have layers. §And, onions have layers.

Computer Generated Gap: TRON • The first computer generated film • Made by Walt

1988: Enter “Japanimation” • Written and directed Katsuhiro Otomo • Originally a comic book

Keeping to the Basics Whether animators draw on onion skin or use 3 D-Software,

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What is Motion?

What is Motion? Motion is the action or process of moving or of changing place or position over time ; movement. - Dictionary. com

Why is Time important? Without Time, there can be no method to calculate movement over a distance, or in a sequence. A time-keeping device was the first scientific instrument, invented by the Egyptians: a clock

Pictures in Motion Your eye acts like a movie projector, capturing a series of images every second. These images are referred to as “frames”

Pictures in Motion Hollywood and Television productions are created by using 72 frames-persecond processing. They use 72 frames per second because that is the maximum amount of still images the human eye can capture per second.

Origin of Animation: Walt Disney • Walt Disney helped pioneer American animation. • His animation used 16 frames per second. • His method involved a process called “onion skinning”

Onion Skinning? ? ? Onion Skinning refers to the type of paper that animators used to draw on. It was made from the skin of onions. It was semi-transparent, allowing animators to see through it We have come to know them as “Layers”

“Ogres are like Onions” - Shrek §Because Ogres have layers. §And, onions have layers. §And Shrek is a byproduct of Walt Disney’s legacy – “Onion Skinning”

Computer Generated Gap: TRON • The first computer generated film • Made by Walt Disney Pictures in 1982 • Walt Disney didn’t know how much the film cost to make until after it hit theaters • TRON nearly bankrupted Disney Pictures

1988: Enter “Japanimation” • Written and directed Katsuhiro Otomo • Originally a comic book • Movie was the first 32 frame-per-second animation • Regarded by critics as one of the greatest animated films ever made

Keeping to the Basics Whether animators draw on onion skin or use 3 D-Software, they still rely on Time and Layers to animate. The ideals haven’t changed since animation was founded – only the tools.

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