STUDIOS AND THERE CREATIONSDreamWorks was formed on October 12th 1994 by director and

producer Steven Spielberg, music executive David Geffen, and former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg.

DreamWorks partnered with Aardman Animations to produce five feature films, including Chicken Run, which has a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes with an average rating of 8/10#

DreamWorks has released 22 feature films including, Shrek, Madagascar, Over the Hedge and Bee Movie

STUDIOS AND THERE CREATIONSAardman is a British animation studio The studio is known for films

made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring Plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit.

Aardman has had many successful animations other than Wallace and Gromit such as the TV series Creature Comforts and Shaun the Sheep.

Aardman currently working on raving Rabbids which is a spin off series out off the very popular game Rayman.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF ANIMATIONStop Motion – This is done by manipulating real word items and then taking a

photo. After many photos have been taken they are played quickly and it then looks like the object is moving on its own. A good example of this would be the popular TV series Wallace and Gromit which was done by using clay figures. A simpler example would be this .gif of a coin http://tinyurl.com/ylqkj2u

Computer Animation 2D – An example of a 2D animation would be a transition on a PowerPoint, 2D animation techniques tend to focus on image manipulation

Computer Animation 3D – 3D Animation is digitally modelled and manipulated by an animator. It is given a digital skeleton so that it can be controlled. Toy Story was the first feature length film rendered completely in 3D.

WELL KNOWN ANIMATED FILMSToy Story is a computer-animated film released by Walt Disney Pictures.

It is Pixar's first feature film as well as the first ever feature film to be made entirely with CGI (Computer Generated Imagery).

WELL KNOWN CARTOON CHARACTERSThere have been many successful cartoons that are still being produced today such as Tom and Jerry which was first produced in 1940 which is about a Cat (Tom) always trying to catch Mouse (Jerry) but rarely achieves this due to Jerry’s clever plans.

Road runner and Wile E. Coyote is also another famous cartoon which was made in 1949. It consist of Wile E. Coyote making elaborate plans trying to catch the road runner. The road runner is recognised by the only sound it makes throughout the 46 series made “Meep Meep”

ANIMATION TECHNOLOGYCinema 4D is a 3D modelling, animation and rendering

application developed by MAXON . It is capable of procedural and polygonal/subd modeling, animating, lighting, texturing, rendering, and common features found in 3d modelling applications.

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