Time Lapse

A time lapse works by setting up some recording equipment or a camera and setting it to shoot every 4 odd seconds, or 30 seconds, or 30 hours, depending on what your capturing and where and how fast/slow/action packed you want it to be.

Koyaanisqatsi People is a film by Godfrey Reggio, most of the film is Time Lapse's of lots of major cities and popular destinations. There are no words or speech in the movie because the movie and juxtaposition of the timelapse scenes and people in the shot, they are not needed because the cinematography tells the story.



Zoo: A Zed And Two Noughts
Is a film about two twins who were joined, who fall in love with a girl, then she dies, and to cope with her death, the two brothers because obsessed with capturing decaying subjects via time lapse.

Setting up a time lapse 
Generally, when setting up your time lapse, you want roughly 24-30 frames per second, you need to do some quick maths before you begin. You want 24 frames per second, times by how long you think the end result will last, so lets say 13 seconds, 24 x 13 = 312, next we have to work out at what interval to take photographs, so then we estimate how long the actual event we are covering will last, say 1 hour, thats 3600 seconds, so you divide 3600 by 312, which gives you 11.53, and that is the interval at which you must take a photograph, every 11.53. This should ensure you get a smooth rate on your animation when it is put together .

Cut Out Animation

Cut Out Animation

Cut out animation in a form of animation using paper, stiff fabric or any flat material, it is animated on a flat surface. It uses a different cut-out for almost every joint in the character, with a cut out background.

The Adventures Of Prince Achmed
The Adventures Of Prince Achmed is a 1926 German fairy-tale, using cut out animation by Lotte Reiniger. It is dont using silhouettes this is useful because you can cover up holes, and it make the models you create look more smooth and like one joined thing. She also animated it using frame by frame pictures, rather than live a live action animation, like puppets.



RiRi 

RiRi is a 2007 independent japanese animation by Miyuki Hosotani, it is very artistic and the scenes are aesthetically nice. 





This is very artistic and detailed compared to Lotte's animation. Which has very little detail because all of the models are silhouettes, however the style of animation is the same.

My Cut Out Animation

For our animation we will have a girl sat on a plane moving her leg, but she will have a dogs head that turns to the left and back.
These are the cut-outs we will use.

My finished project

Model Based Animation

Model based animation is animation done with the use of models, for example clay.
You model the clay to a shape of your liking and make a scene out off it.

Wallace & Gromit
Perhaps the most famous model animation is Wallace & Gromit, it is well known classic clay animation, there are over 100s of different pieces modelled and kept then changed during the shooting,
 for the making of the movie, there was 43 Gromits, and required the use of 2.8 tonnes of plastercine.

This is my animation, i chose to re-enact Godzilla. 

Usually before making your own Clay animation, you need to plan your story, and once you have decided on your story, you begin to create your models, making them as skillfully and detailed as possible, then you find the correct camera angle to best show your shot, for example i shot in the angle that didn't show the wires holding up my Godzilla model.

1980's - Present Day Animation

The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an animated tv series started by Matt Groening in 1987.
Since its release, the show has broadcasted roughly 510 episodes, and is the longest running American TV sitcom to date.
The Simpsons is animated using Cel animation techniques.

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
was made in 2003 by Maxell Atoms, the how is satirical and childish as it follows two children on their adventures with The Grim Reaper. In total 71 episodes were created, the show then officially ended in 2008.


Beavis And butthead
Beavis and Butthead aired from 1992 to 1997, it is an American sitcom showing two teenagers, one called Butthead, the other Beavis, they are both very destructive and idiotic, they also have coined their trademark laughs and grunts.



Family Guy

Family guy is an animated sitcom featuring the family 'The Griffins', by Seth MacFarlane, using satirical humour and making jokes about modern problems and issues. The show was originally cancelled in 2002, only to be re-newed by FOX in 2004 because of its huge 2.2 million DVD sales.

Pixelation first video

I used the program 'IStopMotion' in all, the video took us about 20 minutes to make.
Size = 4x3
Frame Rate = 12 frames per second
Exported = DV-PAL



We have uploaded the video to youtube and i have embedded it here.
Overall i think our animation was a success; however i think a better version could
be made with more time, and maybe a better setting, without people moving in the background of the shot.

Animation 1950-1970

Hannah Barbera

Hannah Barbera is an animation company in America that started in 1957.
Showing its animations first in America, which would later be broadcast in the UK.
Animations they made include:
- The Flinstones
- Wacky Races
- Scooby Doo
- The Smurfs






Warner Bro's

Warner Bro's 'Looney Tunes' was and still is a huge hit, being very popular with children. It was Warner Bro's first animated theatrical series.
It includes lots of loved characters:
- Bugs Bunny
- Elmer Fudd
- Daffy duck
- Tweety + Slyvester
- Road-Runner + Coyote




Oliver Postgate

Oliver Postgate was creator of some of the best known and loved children's TV shows.
He made shows like: 'Bagpuss' and 'Clangers'.
Using models, he excelled in animation.

Animation 1930's - 1950's

Animation 1930's - 1950's

Walt Disney 
Steamboat Willie was the first successful animation to include working sound.
In 1934 Disney began producing 'Snow White & the seven dwarfs', many believed this would be a hug e failure, however, 3 years passed and when it was shown in cinemas, it was so popular it actually received standing ovations, it was the first animation in America to feature full techni-colour.




Fleischer Brothers
The fleischer Brothers were the main competitors to disney studios during the 1940's.
There popular animations 'Betty Boop' and 'Pop-eye the sailer' were very popular, and Disney's main competition.
In 1941 the Brothers released 'Mr Bug Goes to Town' to compete with Disneys film monopoly. However this was a huge failure, it cost $713,511 to make, however only returned $241,000 back by 1946.




Norman Mclaren

Norman Mclaren was a Canadian animator, he used weird methods such as scratching pieces of film.
At the time, he was an animation visionary and has won countless awards and Oscars for his brilliance.
His two most famous feats of animation, are 'Begone dull care' and 'Neighbours'

The Three God-Fathers of Animation

The Three Fathers of Animation

The three fathers of animation were undoubtably George Melies, Winsor Mccay and Lotte Reineger.

George Melies: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JDaOOw0MEE

George Melies was the pioneer of special effects.

His most famous movie was 'Trip to the moon' in which he used cut outs to create worlds he used in his scenes, because it was so expensive to film, he made his own scene backgrounds and featured in his own movies.

  

What is Persistence Of Vision

Persistence of vision is a collection of pictures moved fast, when the images are moved fast, the brain is tricked into thinking they are somehow connected, his make the images seem moving to your eyes.

                    Zoetrope -

  
The zoetrope is a mechanism made out off a hollow inside circle, when you spin the wheel, and look through the slits it creates an illusion of animation. The slits on the side stop the image from blurring whilst spinning, because the images are spinning so fast, it confuses the brain into thinking that the images are connected, making the brain link them together.