Best Animations-
Taks 1- My own example |
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Pioneers of Animation- Task 2
Joseph Antoine
Joseph Plateau (14th October 1801 - 15 September 1883) was a Belgian Physicist. He demonstrated moving images by controlling rotating disks with repeated drawings. He was very talented from a young age, whilst attending primary schools, he was incarnated by the idea of physics. He was considered a child prodigy for being so smart for his age range. He was born in Brussels and was raised there. He attended University of Liege for academic studies, in 1872 he became foregin member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences then sadly passing away with Ghent in 1883. Within his personal life, he married in 1840 to Augustine Clavareau, and had two children who collaborated in his first biography.
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He created the invention of the "Phenakistoscope" being seen as the first mechanism for animation, this manipulated the images to illustrate movement. This machine used a spinning disc which arrayed the images around the disc centre; showing the phases of animation. I think the target audience may have been children. They may have been more fascinated and think of the toy as magical.There were similar artists at the same time creating similar ideas such as Sir Isaac Newton, who was his competition in creating the principles behind the phenakistoscope. He was the main reason for development within stop motion and a big inspiration.
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William Horner
William George Horner was born on the 9th June 1786 to the 22nd September 1837. He was a British Mathematician, being a schoolmaster, schoolkeeper and headmasters whilst spending alot of time teaching mathematics. His contribution to the approximation theory was honoured of the Horners Method, in paper Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for 1819. William died young, at his home in Bath.
William was the creator of the zoetrape, in 1834. This is a device in which produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession, helping the viewing to become simpler and more of an easier process. The spinner has small holes in which means the person looking is able to see inside, and give a better effect than a phenkitascope. This technique is still used today. The images as it was spun looked as though it is moving and allows it to become clearer image.
Busy people get things done, no room for slackers. Keeping ones sense of purpose, that is important. Do you think you will ever find this plant or weed or all those seeds?
Emile Reynaud
Emile (8 December 1844- 9 January 1918). He was a french inventor, creating the first cartoon animation. He created Praxinoscope in 1877. At 14 he was highly knowledgeable in literary and scientific matters, becoming an engineer in Paris. He gained extensive experience in relation to projection, to then lead to creating toys for amusing young children.
This is the development of the praxinoscope- this is the strip of pictures placed aroun the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. It improves on zoetrope by replacing its narrow slits by circles of mirrors, inserted so the pictures become more clear in the wheel spinner. When looking through it has the effects of motion, with more lighting and better special features. Above is the first cartoon animation called "Pauvre Pierrot".
Edward Muybridge
9th of April 1830 Eadweard was born, in Kingston upon Thames. He was an English photographer and having work in photographic studies in motion, and picture projection. At the age of 20 he relocated to New York, becoming a book seller . Returning to England in 1861, and took up learning the wet plate collodion process. He is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877, where multiple cameras were used to capture motion in stop motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film. Muybridge continued lectures throughout Great Britain, but sadly died on the 8th of May 1904 from prostate cancer at the home of his family. His woking was held in Surrey.
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This video is created to show the motion of horses travelling alone in the USA. He used wet-plate, to create highly underexposed and faint plates, showing the hooves leaving the ground at all the same time.
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"Only photography has been able to divide human life |
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison born in February 1847, was an american inventor and businessman. He changed many devices that greatly benefited life around the world. He was born in Milan, Ohio US, and was self educated . He was the 7th and last child of Samuel Ogden and Nancy Elliott. He developed hearing problems at an early age. Edison obtained the exclusive right to sell newspapers on the road, to move along to set in type and printing for the Grand Trunk Herald. He then died of complication of diabetes on October 8th 1931 in his home, in Llewellyn Park New Jersey. He was Buried behind his home.
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He invented the Phonograph, the motion of picture camera and long lasting practical electric light bulbs. This is for advertising purposes. It is using light to manipulate the images taking, and make it look as though it is moving along. This was a very famous piece of work, and starts the progression of pixalation animation.
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Lumière Brothers
The Lumiere Brothers Auguste and Louis, were sons of well known Lyons based portrait painter Antoine Lumiere. Both incredibly talented and excellent in the science subjects, and both went to technical school. Louis joined his father experimenting with photographic equipment, and help setting up the business of manufacturing. During the experiments Louis discovered a process which assisted the change of photography, creating a new technique of "dry plate" in 1881. By 1894 the Lumierers were producing around 15,000,000 plates a year. The brothers invention their own devices combining cameras with printers and projectors called the Cinematographe. With the camera speed of 16 frames per second, it was much slower than Edisons 48 frames per seconds. There was less film needed, and the devices were reduced.
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This production was made in 1895, During 1896, they created more than 40 films that heavily influenced pop culture, including the documentation of common French life, comedy shorts, the first newsreel, and the first documentaries. After all the film success, the brothers decided to put their focus back into photography. The Lumiere company continues to be a major supply of photographic and filming inventions throughout Europe. Auguste Lumiere died at home on April 10 1954, and his brother, Louis passed away six years earlier.
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"the cinema is an invention without any future”
George Pal
George Pal (February 1908-May 1980) from Cegled, Hungary. He was animator and film producer, mainly focused on science-fiction genre. He graduated from Budapest Academy of Arts in 1928, and from then until 1931 for Hunnia Films, of Budapest. He then started to use Pal-Doll technique to create film advertisement in his hotel room, He is best remembered as the producer of several science fiction and fantasy films in the1950's, such as "When Worlds Collide" and the puppetoons series in the 1940s. He then died in Beverly Hills California, of a heart attack age 72.
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Since animated films at the time were generally for advertisement, Pal wanted to start by animating cigarettes, only animation was wanted for advertisement at the time in France. He then moved there to create adverts, which moved onto short films. The one above is a strong example of his work.
Contemporary Animators
Aardman animations
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Aardman Animation is an award winning company which produces exciting and unique of independent films, advertising spots and broadcasts. David Sproxton and Peter Lord began their animating at school in 1972. They moved to Bristol in 1976 when they produced their first professional production, "Take Hart". That leaded on to conversation pieces commissioned by Channel 4 in 1982 which enabled the pair to develop its innovative technique of animating puppet characters to become realistic entertainment. In 1995 Aardman produced Nick Parks third Oscar winning film "A Close Shave", as becoming a huge success, it confirmed the studios reputation as well as creating Wallace and Gromit as household names. After years of production, Aardman Animation was nominated for a BAFTA in 2007, for the studios first CG film Flushed Away. In 2008 Wallace and Gromits "A Matter of Loaf and Death" was broadcast on BBC 1 on Christmas day, and gathered an audience of 16.15 million. This then won the oscar for the best short animation film. As the studios reputation has grown both in the UK and Aboard, so has the high demands for it commercials, digital work and content. This work has continued to diverse with the high profile content produced by the Imperial War Museum, unique BBC radio trailers and Google Spotlight technology. Their work continues to grow for its brilliant characters, unique entertainment, which is reflecting the talent, and the personal efforts for everyone within the Aardmans team.
I think Aardman Animations is one of the best produces of animating, they make it look as clean and smooth as possible, whilst making the production look realistic and different to other animating shows. They hit all ages of target audiences and the development over years is unique. I think that the productions are all different to eachothers, which is a good sign because it shosws how much creativity has gone in to each show. They are entertaining and fun to watch.
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Tim Burton
Timothy is an American film director, producer, artist, animator and writer. He is recognised for his interesting dark and gloomy fantasy films, such as Edward Scissorhands (1990), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Dark Shadows (2012) and Corpse Bride (2005). His career started in the 1980's, and was offered an animator apprenticeship at the studio of Walt Disney Productions, but unfortunately at this time none of his productions were created into finished films. In 1982, he made his first short six minute black and white stop motion film based on a poem, this became a big hit and set up Burton for his career. His main film of production was Batman, 1989. This became the biggest mechanising campaign in film history at the time. This benefited Tim as becoming a profitable director. He has been presented many awards over his time, ranging from "the best director" in 2008, from the Golden Globes USA, to the BAFTA awards for the "Best Animated film" for Frankenweenie in 2013. But i think the biggest award he would of been offered would be the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2007. I like his work because he uses very unusual characters, which makes it more interesting to watch. The detail he puts into each production is so controlled, and everything is put there for a reason which is why i enjoy his productions because as there is so much involvement to make the audience like watching the films. Also i enjoy the gloomy scary films and i think this type of movie will be a big hit over Halloween time to get spooked by. They are funny and very entertaining.
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Working to a brief
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Task 2-
Our Own Brief
The edited brief
Victorias Brief which I am editing
My Feedback from Victoria-
This production has followed the brief very well as it included opening he bottle and drinking it. I would give it a 4 out of 5 because I think the lighting was good and the shot type (mid-shot) was good and there was a good amount of frames per second, the only reason I didn't give it a 5 was because I feel like it could have moved a round a bit more, or from the bottle and then to a mid-shot. Other than that it was very well My Evaluation- I feel as though i followed the brief to the best standard i could of for what information i was given. It didnt have much detail explaining what the client wanted and I felt as though i took my own opinion of what is best for the task and interrupted it the best i could. I feel as though the client could of told me where they wished for the stop motion to of taken place. Having it infront of a brick wall was my decision but i dont feel as though that was the best option for the type of motion, if i was told were they wanted it, that would of made the brief alot easier. In future i will add more angles to make it so the client has more of a range of images to choose from and moving the camera around instead of just focusing on the middle shot would of made it more intresting, and keep the attention of the audience. |
- how closely they follow the brief- 2 because its not really advertising the product to make teenagers drink more water.
- Would i commission it?- 1 no as it doesnt have any detail only a bottle falling on the floor. Me sending Milly my feedback for her work. |