Animation with sound

In this session i added sound to my animation using Garage Band that is built into the apple mac, i used Garage band because it is quick and simple to use

This is the set up for garage band, as you can see my movie clip is at the top and so is the sound i added  to the clip. The purple line below the clip, is the fadder, it is there to fade out the sound at the end of the animation if you want it there

I made this small animation in iMovie because it i s a simple software to use and it was already built into the iMac i was using

This is iMovie, as you can see that the clips i recorded are at the bottom box and the clips that i was editing are at the top. I added some titles to the beging of the animation and at the end by clicking on the add text button and draging a style i liked to the editing box. after i added the titles i uploaded it to YouTube.

I made an animation using i Stop Motion. I used i Stop Motion because it is straight forward to use and it doesn't take time to set up. i Stop Motion also uses "onion skins" which is there incase you accidently move the object and so you can just put it back into position without starting it again.
I used a USB camera instead of the camera that is built onto the PC because you can move the USB camera around to get the best position, where as the built in camera is set to one position.

Plastercine making

Art Clokey

Arthur "Art" Clokey (21st October 1921 - 8th January 2010) was an American pioneer in the popularisation of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia,

Fleischer Brothers

Fleischer Studios, Inc., was an American corporation which originated as an animation studio located at 1600 Broadway, New York City. It was founded in 1921 as Inkwell Studios by brothers Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer who ran the company from its inception until Paramount Pictures forced them to resign in April 1942. In its prime, it was the most significant competitor to Walt Disney Productions and is notable for bringing to the screen cartoons featuring Koko the Clown, Betty Boop, Bimbo, Popeye the Sailor, and Superman. Unlike other studios, whose most famous characters were anthropomorphic animals, the Fleischers' most popular characters were humans.

1960s - 1970s Animation

Pink Panther

The Pink Panther is a series of comedy films featuring a bumbling French police detective, Inspector Jacques Clouseau. The series began with the release of The Pink Panther (1964). The role was originated by, and is most closely associated with, Peter Sellers. Most of the films were directed and co-written by Blake Edwards, with theme music composed by Henry Mancini.

1960s - 1970s Animation

Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo is an American animated cartoon franchise, comprising several animated television series produced from 1969 to the present day. The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears in 1969. This Saturday morning cartoon series featured four teenagers: Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley and Norville (Shaggy) Rogers and their talking brown Great Dane dog named Scooby-Doo, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps.

1960s - 1970s Animation

The Flintstones

The Flintstones is an animated, prime-time American television sitcom that was broadcast from September 30, 1960, to April 1, 1966, on ABC. The show was produced by Hanna-Barbera. The Flintstones was about a working-class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next-door neighbor and best friend.

The show's continuing popularity rested heavily on its juxtaposition of modern everyday concerns in the Stone Age setting. The Flintstones was the most financially successful network animated franchise for three decades, until The Simpsons debuted

1930s - 19 50s Animation

Tom & Jerry

Tom and Jerry is a series of theatrical animated cartoon films created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, centering on a rivalry between a cat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry) whose chases include slapstick comedy. The first ever episode of Tom and Jerry was put out on the 10th febuary 1940.

To Be Continued....

1930s - 1950s Animation

Disney

Snow White and the apple

This was Walt Disney's first featured full film, which gave him the opportunity to make more animation just like this. Snow White and the apple, won an oscar for the best animation of all time, and no other animation has betten it yet.

History of Animation

Steamboat Willie 

Is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black-and-white by the Walt Disney Studios and released by Celebrity Productions. The cartoon is considered the debut ofMickey Mouse, and his girlfriend Minnie, but the characters had both appeared several months earlier in a test screening of Plane Crazy. Steamboat Willie was the third of Mickey's films to be produced, but was the first to be distributed.


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History of Animation

Winsor McCay

Was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip Little Nemo and the animated film Gertie the Dinosaur. For contractual reasons, he worked under the pen name Silas on the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend.

In his drawing, McCay made bold, prodigious use of linear perspective such as in detailed architecture and cityscapes. He textured his editorial cartoons with fine hatching, and made color a central element in Little Nemo. The technical level of McCay's animation was not matched until Walt Disney's feature films arrived in the 1930s. He pioneered inbetweening, the use of registration marks, cycling, and other animation techniques that became standard.

History of Animation

Georges Méliès

was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès, a prolific innovator in the use of special effects, accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work.

Two of his best-known films are A Trip to the Moon (1902) andThe Impossible Voyage (1904). Both stories involve strange, surreal voyages, somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy.

Persistence of vision
refers to the phenomenon where the retina retains an image for a brief split-second after the image was actually seen, and lends itself to animation by fostering the illusion of motion when we view images in closely-timed sequence to one another. We don't notice the fractional skips between images because that persistence fills in the momentary gap to make the motion seem seamless.

Zoetrope
The zoetrope consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. On the inner surface of the cylinder is a band with images from a set of sequenced pictures. As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures across. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together, and the user sees a rapid succession of images, producing the illusion of motion.

Phenakistoscope
The phenakistoscope used a spinning disc attached vertically to a handle. Arrayed around the disc's center were a series of drawings showing phases of the animation, and cut through it were a series of equally spaced radial slits.              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenakistoscope

Kinetoscope
The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device. The Kinetoscope was not amovie projector but introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video, by creating the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter.           http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetoscope

Mutoscope
The Mutoscope worked on the same principle as the "flip book". The individual image frames were conventional black-and-white, silver-based photographic prints on tough, flexible opaque cards. Rather than being bound into a booklet, the cards were attached to a circular core, rather like a huge Rolodex. A reel typically held about 850 cards, giving a viewing time of about a minute.

Wallace and Gromit (stop animation)

Research on animation

Family Guy

This is my first post for my, stop animation project :-)