A N I M A T I O N. ANIMATION refers to the creation of a sequence of images—drawn, painted, or...
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A N I M A T I O N. ANIMATION refers to the creation of a sequence of images—drawn, painted, or produced by other artistic methods—that change over time
ANIMATION refers to the creation of a sequence of imagesdrawn,
painted, or produced by other artistic methodsthat change over time
to portray the illusion of motion. Before the invention of film,
humans depicted motion in static art as far back as the Paleolithic
period. In the 1st century, several devices successfully depicted
motion in animated images.
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Early drawings from ancient Egypt depicting a wrestling match.
If you look closely, you can see that they tell a story, if you
sped the images up, they would appear animated.
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Animation is the process of creating motion and shape change
illusions by means of the rapid display of a sequence of static
images that minimally differ from each other. The illusionas in
motion pictures in generalis thought to rely on the phi phenomenon.
Animators are artists who specialize in the creation of
animation.
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Click or paste into your browser:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation#/media/File:Animhorse.gif
Animation in early form was a series of drawings (each differing
from the other just slightly, in order to create the illusion of
movement.) You can see the horse is galloping when you put all of
these together. Click on the link below or cut and paste into your
browser.
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Although animation was used on a crude level in ancient times
and the years following, the first animated film short is credited
to Walt Disney, who in 1928 produced a black and white short film
called Steamboat Willie, which featured a little known mouse who
later became the most famous mouse in the world, Mickey Mouse. They
now use this in the introduction to their current animated films.
Click on the link below or cut and paste into the browser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6CZW4rRGfY
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Although Disney and other studios like Warner Brothers make
animation look easy, its actually quite difficult and time
consuming to draw the characters, put them into computers, make
them come alive and look 3Dimensional! All they start with is a
sketch like the one below! Imagine that! See how they use very
close sketches so if you speed them up it will look animated like
the little person is running? Thats how animation works its magic
on us!
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There are many different types of animation as well including
hand drawn, puppet animation, clay animation, cut-out, silhouette,
model and computer animation. The Nightmare Before Christmas is an
example of puppet animation where puppets are created, posed in
different styles and settings, and then brought to life through
digital means.
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Wallace and Gromit are examples of Clay Animation where a wire
is put inside the clay figures and put into different poses,
eventually creating a cartoon movement effect.
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THE FIRST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Many consider Walt Disney's
1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs the first animated feature
film, though at least seven films were released earlier. However,
Disney's film was the first one completely made using hand-drawn
animation. The previous seven films, of which only four survive,
were made using cutout, silhouette or stop motion, except for
onealso made by Disney seven months prior to Snow Whites
release.
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One of the most beloved and great examples of animation was
released in 1940, entitled Fantasia, which was made entirely
animated without speech, and simply set to classical music.
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With Snow Whites success, Disneys name became synonymous with
animation, and the studio went on to make over 54 animated feature
films including everything spanning from Snow White in 1937 to its
most recent film, Big Hero 6. Beginning with Toy Story in 1995, The
Walt Disney Studios also released animated films by Pixar Animation
Studios, which became a wholly owned subsidiary of Disneys in
2006.
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Many more animated films followed, each becoming more realistic
with more detail than the previous.
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Many of you have probably seen these animated films. Im sure
everyone has a favorite. What is yours?
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More Animated Films
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Warner Brothers created Looney Tunes and preferred to stay in
short films or cartoons you may recognize many of these characters
from childhood- and your parents and grandparents too!
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Despicable me was from Universal Pictures, another success. Who
doesnt like the minions, right?
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Most animated features made today rely on computer animation,
which encompasses a variety of techniques, the unifying factor
being that the animation is created digitally on a computer. 2D
animation techniques tend to focus on image manipulation while 3D
techniques usually build virtual worlds in which characters and
objects move and interact. 3D animation can create images that seem
real to the viewer. The most recent example of this would be the
animated film Frozen and Big Hero 6
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One of the most recent animated advancements was the building
and creation of Elsas ice palace in Frozen, and while many of you
have seen and heard this, please watch one more time and look at
the details within the palace and the animation and see how long it
took to do these things! Frozen took at least two years to create,
commission, develop to bring it to its final format. A number of
animators, actors, voice overs and digital artists make up the
film. Although it looks easy, its a lot of hard work! It paid off
as the highest grossing animated film of all time and won numerous
awards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moS Flvxnbgk
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Hope you had fun learning about animation!
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Would you want to be an animator? Time for activities and
discussion!