Animation

By – MaiTreya PaTniScholars 2 DSubodh Public School

Introduction to AnimationWhat is Animation :

Animation is the illusion of motion that is created by displaying a series of images or frames, each one slightly different from the last, over a brief period of time.

Video takes continuous motion and breaks it up into discrete frames.

Animation starts with independent pictures and puts them together to form the illusion of continuous motion.

Difference between Animation and video

History of AnimationPioneers of Animation:

Winsor McCay of the United States

Emile Cohl and Georges Melies of France. 

First Animated Feature Film “ Sinking of the

Lusitania” in 1918.

Evolution In Animation:Development of celluloid

around 1913 quickly made animation easier to manage.

Animator could make a complex background and foreground and sandwich moving characters in between several other pieces of celluloid.

Role of Walt Disney

He was the first animator to add sound to his movie cartoons with the premiere of “Steamboat Willie” in 1928.

In 1937, he produced the first full length animated feature film, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”.

Contribution of Computers in Animation

A film like “Star Wars” by George Lucas would rely heavily on computer animation for many of its special effects. 

“Toy Story”, produced by Walt Disney Productions became the first full length feature film animated entirely on computers.

Types of AnimationMain Types of

Animation:

Stop motion animation

Clay animationComputer animation

Stop Motion Animation Stop motion is an

animation technique which makes static objects appear to move. It is central to the clay animation technique used on popular children's shows

Stop Motion AnimationStop-motion

animation, or motion captures simply a way to animate puppets.

Stop-motion animation is a very interesting way of producing animation .

Clay AnimationClay animation is also

considered as a type of stop-motion animation.

A form of stop-motion animation that uses actual clay figures which are molded into different positions for each frame.

Clay animation is sometimes called 3-D animation because the figures are 3-D on a 3-D set.

Clay animationTechnique:

Roll balls or coils and then flatten them into the forms.

Combine the forms and smooth the seams with a craft stick or modeling tool.

To keep the background simple.

Clay AnimationFeaturesIn clay animation The

best, most widely used tool should be your hands

Your hands shape, squish, smooth, flatten, pinch, and poke the clay the best .

Computer Animation

Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers.

Computer Animation History:

Start at the early 1800s ."TOY STORY", first

computer animated feature released in 1995.

John Whitney dies (1917-1995) experimental animator and pioneer of computer animator .

Computer Animation Techniques:

3D animation(create objects and then

render)Computer painting tools and

to paint single frames .Use transitions and other

effects like morphing .

Mesh

A render image

Computer Animation Application:

Engineering problems Multimedia presentationsFilmsEducationArchitectureMilitary