Animation review

I have had a few people review my animation I am going to included the screenshots on here also am going included there comments on youtube. Also I am going to evaluate myself  as well to see if I can improve in the near feature.

My feedback, here is what other people have thought about my animation. 

My evaluation
When starting my animation I had a few ideas what I thought were possible but as time went on a few of my ideas were not possible, as I would not be able to get the props for it. For an example I was going to do a sketch about The big bang theory but at that moment in time I didn't  have any money to buy the things I needed so i had to change my idea. I changed it to having a go pro in my step dads van but round the time I was going to do it he got admitted into hospital and was off for a few weeks so I came up with he idea of doing a time lapse in a car but i didn't know when or how I was going to do. As I was going a way for the weekend half way there I thought about doing my time laps animation because I was in a great location and it would look great on film. luckily I had my phone on me and that does time lapse so I filmed for an hour I hoped I had enough footage. When I got home after the weekend I started to edit by changing some of the colours in the film and also adding sound. after this i exported it and uploaded it to youtube and facebook, I also put it on Instergram and i got some positive reviews a back. I will include them at the bottom of this report.

My own animation

Week 1 

This week I am going to look at other animations so I have an idea of what I want to do for mine.

Time lapse 

I am going to start by looking at time lapse
Time lapse is my favourite animation. I tried to do one last year but it didn't really work because I didn't fully understand how it worked. I want to try it again but this time have camera set up on a road and do a time lapse of the traffic. For an example this video of New York.

Model Based 

I would like to do something with models but not clay as I don't like it much. I would rather make i with models for an example toys, I want to do something with Iron Man or The Big Bang Theory. 

For an example this video is of toy cars doing a car chase scene.

 Pixilation 

With pixilation I want to do a video about a love and hate relationship. for an example boyfriend and girlfriend that fight but at the end of the day can still love each other.

Week 2 (My ideas) 

My time lapse ideas 

One of my ideas is to put a go pro into my mam's partners recovery van, when he is on call and have it there all day because he is always out on call and he can go anywhere within the UK. After filming the things I need I will speed the video up and add audio. 

Another ideas is to go up to Roseberry Topping and set up a camera from the  top and have it recording from day to sun set. 

Another idea was to be filming the traffic on the A19 for a few hours then after speed the clips up and add sound.

My model based ideas 

One of my ideas are to buy some big bang theory lego for an example a Sheldon, Leonard and do a mini sketch show. For an example a silly little argument like they always do. 

Week 3 

I have chosen my idea and am going to use my A19 idea. I am currently in the process of drawing up my mood board. When I have completed my mood board I will take a photo with my phone and upload it here. 

Week 4

I am thinking of changing my idea as it is not channelling and it won't be that enjoyable to watch. I might changing it to a car journey or a walk to Preston Park or to Acklam. The reason I am doing this is because I want to challenge myself. I will film it with a go pro then speed it up in the editing part and add music into it.

Week 5 

I am going to Scarborough on 26th March so am going to record my journey back. I am going to use my phone to record my time laps because my phone is an Iphone 5s so it has time lapse Built into it so I wont have to do that much editing. 

Week 6 

Here are two photos showing how and were I filmed my time lapse.
I have included some music to my animation. I have picked to use David Guetta and sia titanium karaoke   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHBCNNrv5M.

Here is my time lapse I have uploaded it to youtube. 

Animation Assessment

Cell based animation

Cell-based animation gets its name fro using cels or sheets of plastic. Each drawing for the animation is made on paper and then traced onto a cell which of course is transparent. Then the drawing on the cell is painted in so it is in colour and taken to be photographed. Then the process is repeated with each drawing made slightly different from the previous one - up to 25 drawings When these separate images are played back, it gives the felling that its moving. An excellent example of cell-based animation is any of the Disney movies especially Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. All cells were hand drawn and painted. 

Cut out 

Cut out animation is a stop-animations this is made by using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, fabric or even photographs. For an example you cut out an image from a magazine and photographic it then move it then take another photo and do this process over and over again until your happy with your storyline and images. The only difference is that the camera is face down on to the drawings. 

Model-based animation 

Model-based animation is one of the simplest stop-motion animation there is, you can use clay models our use toys for an example lego you could build a number of objects then photograph them then move them a little bit then take another photo until your sequence is complete. Then after doing that edit the sequence by speeding the images up so it looking like its moving.

Pixillation 

Pixilation is a stop motion technique where live actors are used as a frame-by-frame subject in an animated film, by repeatedly posing while one or more frame is taken and changing pose slightly before the next frame or frames. 

Time lapse 

Time lapse is used mostly for landscape shoots for an example from a ruff top showing the change of and landscape for an example a building getting built

Pixaliation

Here is a pixilation i have done with ryan and josh we have not yet finished the task because it needs improving. I am on about changing the idea because it does not really flow properly. I made it with Stop motion pictures what is on the mac it self. To do this you take individual photo slowly and only let the actor move a little bit every time you take a photo.

Cut out anamation

This is my cut out image you can move all the parts of the body because they are all cut out of different images.

Here is our cut out animation. I have changed the idea of my animation because i didnt think it was going to work. I enjoy doing cut out but i would not choice it to do for my assiment.

Clay Model

Animation 1930s to 1970s

Snow White and the seven dwarfs

Snow white was the first animation with colour and sound it tock nearly 4 years to make and the fist time it was shown to the public was 1937 and was produced by Walt Disney  and released by RKO Radio Pictures. In the box office snow white has made over $416 million.  

Norman McLaren 

Norman McLaren was a Scottish-born British animator, director and producer.McLaren is remembered for his experiments with image and sound as he developed a number of groundbreaking techniques. He is most famous for his show Neighbours in 1952 

The Flintstones

The Flintstones were the modern Stone Age family. Residing in Bedrock, Fred Flintstone worked an unsatisfying quarry job, but returned home to lovely wife Wilma and eventually daughter Pebbles. The Flintstones was heavily inspired by The Honeymooners. The first episode came out in September 1960 and since then there has been re-makes one in 1994 called The Flintstones and another one in 2000 called The Flintstones viva rock Vegas.  

Top Cat

The animated series that follows the many get-rich-quick schemes of a band of streetwise felines. Top Cat, a clever hustler whose close friends get to call him TC, leads his faithful followers in all sort's of scams, gambling activities and harebrained stunts, all in the pursuit of a fast dollar. The first episode came out in September 1961. 

Pioneers of early animation

Georges Melies 

George Melies was a french filmmaker who was famous for creating many technical and narrative development in the early age of cinema. George Melies was a professional magician before until he seen the first "moving pictures" in 1895. Little over a year later, Melies was filming and projecting his own creations one of these creations were a trip to the moon 

Winsor mcCay  

 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. He did Little Nemo in 1911 and Gertie the Dinosaur in September 1914 it was also the earliest animated film to feature a dinosaur.

Lotte Reiniger 

Lotte Reiniger is a german film director and pioneer of silhouette animation, she has an award from German Film Award the award was for an Honorary Award witch was resived in 1972 she was also nominated for best foreign film in 1932 with Silhouetten but did not win. 

Steamboat willie 

Steamboat willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks it was the first animation to have sound and was very popular in different countries because everyone could understand what the characters were saying. 

Old fashion animation

Zoetrope 

A zoetrope is an old animation machine. A zoetrope is a metal drum with a sequence of image all different but only a little bit when spun it makes the images look like they are moving. the zoetrope was invented in 1834 by  British mathematician William George Horne.

Thaumatrope

A thaumatrope is a toy that was popular in the 19th century. A disk with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to blend into one.

kinetoscope

The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. 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. It is also know as the what the butlers saw. Normally the Kinetoscope was filled with node photo's of woman and to show the photo's the machine was winded up using one hand. The Kinetoscope was invented by Thomas Edison's 

mutoscope

The Mutoscope was an early motion picture device, invented by Winsor McCay . Like Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope it did not show on a screen it only provided viewing to one person at a time. 

Examples of animation

Here are some examples of stop motion animation 

Here is a video of the top ten stop motion animation films. Number one on this video is the nightmare before christmas 

Here is a type of animation called pixilation I made this last year its were you take single photos and speed them to make them look like it moving