My animation was about bullying in college, the animation was was meant to be a campaign about how to stop bullying.
My target audience thought that throughout that it was pretty simple and that there was no story behind it. The lighting in my animation was not even and did not light up the actors faces. this would of been better if we had use a three point light system. We used a range of shots such a long shot so that you would be able to see all the actors in the frame being beating up. I also used a medium shot so that you would be able to the actors faces.
The sound in the animation created tension and suspense which enhanced the build up to the fight scene. The music was instrumental and i included no sound effects.
Overall I think that i could of made the animation by making it longer and having more of a story so that i would of made more sense. I could of also used sound effects to enhance the fight scene.
Who is the animator? The animator of Cinderella is Walt Disney, however there are many people that worked on each character.
Who produced it? Cinderella was produced by Walt Disney and it was directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson.
What year did it come out? Cinderella came out in February 15, 1950 and it was relsead by RKO Radio Pictures.
How successful was it? (box office figures, did it win any awards)? Its box office totals on its initial release in 1950 wasn't recorded,
but it was successful to place Disney back on the map because Walt Disney Production suffered a major loss of the connerctions with the European film markets due to the outbreak of World World II. However, the
film's re-releases in 1981 and 1987 grossed around $28 million and $34.1
million, respectively according to IMDb.com. Cinderella was a massive critical and commercial success upon realease and reinvigorated the Disney comapny when they were nearing bankruptcy after loss of over a $4million from the failures od Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi. Cinderella won 4 awards and had 7 nominations:
Nominations
Academy Awards, USA (Oscars)
1951
·Best Music, Original Song (For the song
“Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo)
·Best Music, Scoring of Musical Picture
·Best sound, Recording
Berlin International Film Festival
1960
·Golden Berlin Bear
Hugo Awards
1951
·Best Dramatic Presentation
Satellite Awards
2005
·Outstanding Youth DVD
(2-Disc Special Edition)
Venice Film Festival
1950
·Gloden Lion
Won
Berlin International Film Festival
1951
·Golden Berlin Bear, Best Musical
·Audience Poll: Grand Bronze Plate
Venice Film Festival
1950
·Special Jury Prize, Walt Disney (for Beaver
Valley)
Young Artist Award
199
·Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award,
Lucille Bliss
Main Body:
Analyse the animation, discussing what you can see, take actual examples from the clip. Content, dialogue, sound effects and style.
What effects have been used? (Use actual examples from the animation and discuss how effective the technique is)
Animation is a simulation of movement created by displaying a series of pictures or frames.
throughout the years there have been different types of techniques that were used to create animations.
Zortrope
The
Zortrope was created in the 1830's by a bristish mathematician names
Willam George Horner. The Zoetrope consists of a cylinder with slits cut
vertically on the sides. On the inner suface of the cylinder is a band
with images from a set from a squenced pictures.
As the
cylinder spins, when looks through the slits at the pictures. The slits
keep the pictures from blurring together and the user sees a rapid
succession of images, producing the illusion of motion.
Kinetoscope
The
kinetoscope was an early montion picture exhibition device. The
Kinetoscpe was designed for films to be viewed by one person at a time,
through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device
Kinetoscope
was invented by Thomas A. Edison and William Dickson of the United
States in 1891. This technique works by passing a film strip rapidly
between a lens and an electric light bulb while the viewer peer through a peephole.
Flick Book
A flip book or a flick book is a
booklet with a series of pictures or drawings that vary gradually from one page
to the next, so when the page are turned rapidly, the pictures or drawing
appear o animate by simulating montion.
The first flip book become known on
September 1868, when it was patented by John Barnes Linnett under the name of
Kineograph (Lantin for Moving pictures.)
Cel animation
Cel-animation
also known as classical animation or
hand-drawn animation. This technique is a traditional form of animation and it
usually consists of 24 frames per second, each frame is usually drawn by hand
on a transparent celluloid sheet on which a character, scene, is drawn or
painted ans it usually constitutes of many layers to create one scene.
This technique was invented by Earl
Hurd in 1910. The translucent sheets of celluloid were used to composite
differnet moving parts upon a static background, drastically reducing the
number id drawings required.
Rotoscoping
Rotoscoping is an animation technique
in which animators trac over footage, frame by frame, for use in live-action
and animated films. This technique is originally recorded as a live-action film
images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and re-drawn by an animator.
This projection equipment is called a rotoscope. Although this device was
eventually replaced by computers, the process is still referred to as
rotoscoping.
This technique was invented by
cartoonist/illustrator/writer/inventor Max Fleischer. This technique made its
debut in 1915 in Fleischer groundbreaking animated series Out of the
Inkwell.
Drawn on film
Draw on film animation is an amination
technique where the footage is produced by creating the images directly
on a film stock. There are two ways in which the techniques can be
created, first way is by starting with a blank film stock, on this blank film
the artist can draw, paint, stamp or even glue or tape objects, on to the film
stock. The second way is using a black film stock which can be scratched,
etched, sanded or punched.
The first people the are known to have
used this technique were, Len Lye, Norman Mclaren, Stan Brakhage.
Digital applications
Digital application are any
techniques that where used after the 1960's for example Toy Story was one of
the first feature-length animation that was computer animated. The early
digital computer animation was developed at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the
1960's by Edward E. Zajac, Frank W. Sinden, Kennethh C. Knowlton and A. Michael
Noll.
The first know computer animation was a
sequel to the 1973 movie Westworld, which was a science fiction filn about a
society in which robots live and work amongs humans the name of the sequel was
called FutureWorld and it came out in 1976.
Claymation
Claymation is one of the many
forms of stop montion. Each object or character is sculpted from clay or other
such similarly pliable material such as Plasticine, which is usually created by
using a wire skeleton called armture and covered in Plasticine and is then
arranged on set where it will be photographed once before and then begin
slightly moved by hand to prepare for the next scene. After the animator has
all it desired film, upon playback at the a rapid speed the images will
simuplate motion.
Claymation flims were first produced in
the United States as early as 1908. Edison Manufacturing was one of the first
to release and claymation film called The Sculptor's Welsh Rarebit Dream. It
was only in 1916 when claymation become popular when an artist called Helena
Smith Dayton and an animator called Willie Hopkin came together to produce a
claymation flims using a wide range of subjects.
Corpse Bride, is a 2005 British-Americanfantasy film directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton
What techniques is used?
The technique used to create this fantasy film was stop montion is animation
technique to make a physically manipulated an object or figuring to make it appear as its move on its own. The object is moved in small inchs each time between frames, creating the illusion of movement when
the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence.
Evaluation of techniques (what is good about the technique/ what could be some of the problems with this technique)?
The good thing about using this technique is that its an old fashioned technique and you have to have a lot of patience because it is a process that takes a lot of time, and its also a technique that needs to be very well plan out. Some problems that could occur during stop motion is that if you move the figuring more then you should you will most probably have to started all over again.
Monster Inc
Monster Inc, is 2001 a Pixar film, directed by Peter Docter.
What techniques is used? the techinque used to create this film was computer animated. This techinque is a modern computer animation which is normally using 3D computer graphics.
Evaluation of techniques (what is good about the technique/ what could be some of the problems with this technique)?
The good thing about this technique is that the animators can create worlds that don't exist, taking us place that we could only dream of and create charaters that we created in our minds. I don't think that there's anything wrong with using this technique.
Mars Needs Mom
Mars Needs Mom, is a 2011 American, animated science fiction comedy film co-written and directed by Simon Wells.
What techniques is used?
The techinque used in this animation is 3D motion capture computer-animated. This techinque is modern type of techinque which motion catpuring from live action to create the animation.
Evaluation of techniques (what is good about the technique/ what could be some of the problems with this technique)? The good thing about this techinque is that more rapid, even real time results can be obtained. In entertainment applications this can reduce the costs of keyframe-based animation, and its also more presit with capturing movements.
