History of animation
How it works: Animations in the past are
lots of drawings, which are slightly changed from one another such as a mouth
in one frame will be slightly drawn different form the other. When there are
many drawing of this picture they start put them together and start moving them
around. The pictures will start to move like they are some movement so they
actually like there alive this gives the persistence of vision effect (refers
to the optical illusion where two or more images blend into a single or moving
image such as in the cinema and animated films). In the present they do most of this on a
computer, it was really difficult and more time consuming in the past than it
is now.
There were many techniques and objects to
assist the creation of the animations in the past.
The magic lantern:
This is the forerunner of the modern slide
projector. It has long and complicated history many people were in this
development. No one can say who developed the magic lantern because there was
not much record going around at that time. It was part of the marvelous world
of optical projection and stand alongside the camera Obscura and shadow shows
it has been used to educate and entertain people for many generations. On the
other hand when it was first created people thought it was devilry so it was
not popular in the time it was released.
It was a picture, which was projected to a wall or flat surface by light
shown through the paper. It was suggested that it was evented by Giovanni
Fontana. The magic lantern has had its hand in inventing and causing ideas for many
other animation inventions such as the Thaumatrope, Phenakistoscope and zoetrope.
Thaumatrope:
The Thaumatrope is a toy that was created
in 1825 but it took high popularity in the 19th century. It was a
disk with a one picture on each side with lines of strings running through each
sides. When you twisted the string and started to pull the string it would
start to spin and when that happened the 2 pictures started to blend together
so both pictures on the other side of the disk both look like they were a whole
picture, this was cause by persistence of vision.
It was created by John Ayrton Paris, he used to demonstrate persistence of vision to the college of physicians in London 1825. It was very popular at that time because there was no TV was
invented at that time going around so they have to find their own entertainment
so the Thaumatrope came into place for something exciting.
Phenakistoscope:
The Phenakistoscope was created in 1832 by
a man called Joseph Plateau. (Phenakistoscope means ‘spindle viewer’). The Phenakistoscope is a wheel which uses the
persistence of motion principle to create an illusion of motion. It’s a piece
of disk with 6 or 12 sides on it equal sided which has the same pictures but
the pictures are slightly altered so they look a little different. When that is
complete they start to spin it and when it is spun the pictures on the disk
starts to move like they are actually alive because it is going so fast that
the picture are starting to overlapping so it looks like it actually
realistic. (Usually you will have to
concentrate only on one picture or you need something to make it stand out or
it will be hard to see it move.)
Zoetrope:
The zoetrope was created in England in 1834
by William George Horner (originally called the daedatelum but was changed by a
French inventor called Pierre Desvignes to zoetrope (the wheel of life) it is a
device with a cylinder shape where you can put strips of paper with the same
picture but it is slightly different so when you put the strip of paper into
the zoetrope and start to spin it and look through the one of the holes and
look at one of the picture it looks like it is moving. it may have 12 or 24 frames in it. in the present they made it in a 3d design so it looks more realistic.
All
these phenomenon called persistence of vision is the result of human instinct.
Our brains strive to make meaning of what we perceive
The Animators
Nick Park
He has made many animations in his life time and continuing his work , here are some examples of his work he has done.
nick park uses clay models and make a stop frame animations for his work.
nick park uses clay models and make a stop frame animations for his work.
he was born on December 6 1958 in Lancashire, England. he made his first stop motion film at the age of 13. later in his life he joined Aardman animations ltd, in 1985 he created one of the most famous animations out of clay Wallace and Gromit ( lore's: about a inventor and his skilled silent dog on mad adventures.) nick won many academy awards for his films . the clay animations of Wallace and Gromit have grown high popularity in the United Kingdom.
here are some animation he has made over the years:
1.Wallace and Gromit
2.Shaun the sheep
3.chicken run
4.creature comforts
5.Timmy time
6.Wallace and Gromit inventions
7. Early man
1.Wallace and Gromit
2.Shaun the sheep
3.chicken run
4.creature comforts
5.Timmy time
6.Wallace and Gromit inventions
7. Early man
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| Wallace and Gromit |
professional career
nick park one of the key people of Aardman Animations with peter lord and David Sproxton (the founders of the company)
in 1993 Aardman passed another milestone when nick park won a Oscar for his animation for Wallace and Gromit the wrong trousers ( his first 30 minute film) this was said to be world wide and winner of over 30 awards. this has become of the most successful animated films ever made.
After that they started to create their first full length movie, chicken run funded by DreamWorks. it was released in June 2000 in the us and UK they got excellent reviews and outstanding box office receipts. chicken run has cross over £220m at the world wide box office.
After the mass popularity of the company they planned on making another full length movie Wallace and Gromit the curse of the were-rabbit it was released by DreamWorks in October 2005 the movie gained international awards including the academy award for best animated featured film and a BAFTA for best British film.
Aardman also developed flushed away their first CG film.
After that they started to make a animated series called Shaun the sheep.
To this day Aardman animation are still creating many animation such as the new coming up move Shaun the sheep movie.
my opinion of this animator is that he is very talented in his work who put so much hard work to create what he loved to do so I would say nick park is a very interesting man who creates these animation for peoples amusement and I would to see of his clay work.
Matt Groening
He was born on February 15, 1954, in Portland, Oregon. his father was called homer Groening and his mother was called Margaret Wiggum he had 4 sibling his 2 sisters were called patty and Lisa his 2 brothers were called mark and Maggie some of these names were put in his animations.
his animation style were hand drawn then put up in the computer and created.
He attended evergreen state college and was the editor of the campus newspaper. he moved to LA in 1973 and sold his comic strip 'life in hell'
to LA weekly after a man called James L brooks asked him to create short animation so they made one of the most famous animation 'The Simpsons' (which was developed by his comic strip life in hell) the longest running entertainment series in primetime television.
in 1997, hoping to build on the success of the Simpsons he decided to created another animation series called Futurama the second animated series for the fox network. sadly it was called after four years but many fans of the series maintained a strong cult for the series. after a few years it was revived it was picked up, in 2011 Emmy award for outstanding animated program .
still an active cartoonist, Groening formed the comic book publisher bongo comics group in 1994. he also collects unofficial Simpson's merchandise and has grown accustomed to dedicated fans and their sometimes unorthodox ways of showing their devotion. oftentimes he said 'what seems to be a street lunatic charging at me spouting turns out to be a devoted Simpson's fan quoting their favorite line.
over these past years the Simpson's has had many famous actors show up on the show such as
sir Patrick Stewart, Leonard Nimoy, Tony Bennett and many more. the Simpsons popularity will continue to grow so will the amusement it gives to people.
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( I'm a writer who happens to draw)
my opinion of the animator is that he is a highly experienced person who knows how much humor to into it to make it a family friendly for everyone to enjoy and I would want to see how his animation will progress.
