Breaking Bad

This is my animation after titles and sound have been added. I added the tittles with the program iMovie and I added my sound in Garage Band. I didnt add no special effects all I added was a song over the back ground. These two programs come free with the Apple Mac's

1960's - 1970's

Post Man Pat - 
Postman Pat was a British stop motion animation aired in 1981 and produced by Woodland Animation. It is aimed at young children for them in primary school or nursery. It is about a post man in a small village. It was first aired on BBC1 in 1981. Its first series was so successful along with the several TV specials and second series was created with 13 more episodes which was produced by the same people again in 1996. In 2004 a new series of Postman Pat was created but produced by Cosgrove Hall which had many aspects of the original series. But in this series Pat is no longer sponsored by Royal Mail like previously so he has became an employee of a fictional Special Delivery Service.

Scooby Doo - 

Scooby Doo was an American animated cartoon created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The original series 'Scooby-Doo, Where are you !' was created for Hannah Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears in 1969. This Saturday morning cartoon series featured four teenagers - Fred Jones, Faphne Blake, Velma Dinkley and Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers. They also has a talking brown Great Dane which was called Scooby Doo. They solve mysteries involving supernatural creatures. The first series was very successful, Hanna-Barbera and its successor Warner Brothers Animation have produced a number of spin off animated series and similar work included specials and telefilms. Warner Bros also produced two feature films. Scooby Doo was originally aired on CBS from 1969 till 1976 when it moved to ABC. The show was aired till it was canceled in 1986 and presenting a spin off featuring the characters as children, A Puppy named Scooby Doo from 1988 till 1991. Town new Scooby Doo series, What's new, Scooby Doo? and Shaggy and Scooby Doo get a clue! This was aired as a part of a Kids Warner Bros and the Warner Bros network and until its successor The CW network since 2002 till 2008. The most recent Scooby Doo Series 'Scooby Doo! Mystery incorporated which aired on cartoon network from 2010 till 2013. Repeats of the old Scooby Doo Series are broadcasted often on Cartoon Network and Boomerang in the USA and other Countries. Finally in 2013 TV Guide ranked Scooby Doo the fifth Greatest TV cartoon of all time.

Tom and Jerry - 

Tom and Jerry is a series of theatrical animated cartoon films created byWilliam Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, centering on a rivalry between a cat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry) whose chases includeslapstick comedy. Hanna and Barbera ultimately wrote, produced, and directed 114 Tom and Jerry shorts at the MGM cartoon studio in Hollywoodfrom 1940 to 1957. The original series is notable for having won sevenAcademy Awards, tying with Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies as the theatrical animated series with the most Oscars. A longtime television staple, Tom and Jerry has a worldwide audience and has been recognized as one of the most famous and longest-lived rivalries in American cinema.

MGM released an additional 13 entries in 1961 produced by Rembrandt Films led by Gene Deitch in central Europe. Chuck Jones' Sib-Tower 12 Productions produced another 34 entries between 1963–1967, creating a total of 161 theatrical entries.

Tom and Jerry resurfaced in made-for-television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Filmation Studiosstarting in the 1970s. The feature-length film Tom and Jerry: The Movie was released in 1992, and was followed by their first made-for-television short Tom and Jerry: The Mansion Cat for Boomerang. The most recent Tom and Jerry theatrical short,The Karate Guard, (2005) was written and co-directed by Barbera.

Time Warner (via its Turner Entertainment division) currently owns the rights to Tom and Jerry: Warner Bros. handles distribution. Since the merger, Turner has produced Tom and Jerry Tales for The CW's Saturday morning "The CW4Kids" lineup, and several Tom and Jerry direct-to-video films in collaboration with Warner Bros. Animation.

Breaking Bad Animation.

My task was to create a 5-10 second animation of my choice. To make the animation I made the clay models last week and recorded this week. To record this animation I used the programme iStopmotion and the camera I used was a HUE HD webcam. With this webcam it is easy to manoeuvre.

we recorded the animation in widescreen and it is played back in 12fps. When recording the animation you have to take 12 pictures for every second shot. Every time you take a picture and then move the model slightly it leaves a ghost image this is called an onion skin. It took us around about 30 minute to create.  

This is an example of an onion skin on istopmotion. 

Walter White - Heisenberg

1930's - 1950's

Disney - 
Walter Elias Disney or Walt Disney for short was one of the most famous animators and ideas man there has ever lived. He was the first man to actually have sound in one of his cartoon and that cartoon was Steamboat Willie. This was animated the same way as Winsor Mccay but instead of drawing his image on a white peace of paper so it had no back ground, Walt drew his on clear sheets of plastic so he could have a background with drawing a number of them if on the move the background is going to be the same through out and also so he could see better what he had drawn last. There are no actual spoken words in the cartoon as it was not as advanced back then as it is now so they could not sink there mouth up with the words being spoken. But they do make noises and when something happens in it that makes a sound that will be added in to it as well along with the music that is playing in the background. Disneys First full feature film was snow white that was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which came out in 1937 this was the first cartoon full length movie. Its budget was $1.488.423 and made $416 Million. This was only the start of his carrier after snow white he then went on to make more full length cartoon movies becasue they are so sucsessfull.

Fleischer Brothers - 
Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer were brothers that formed Fleischer Studios in America. They were an animation studio that made some of the best known cartoons. Such as Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor. It was founded in 1921 as Inkwell Studios by the brothers who ran the company from its inception until Paramount Pictures, the studio's parent company and the distributor of its films, forced them to resign in April 1942. Unlike Disney the Fleisher Brothers favourite characters we're humans not like Disney's they are Animals.



Fred Quimby -
Frederick Clinton Quimby, Fred Quimby for short, was an American cartoon producer. He was best known as a producer of Tom and Jerry cartoons. Tom and jerry is one of the best known cartoons ever made. It has won around seven Academy Awards. He was the film sales executive in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon Studio,  which included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry.





Art Clokey - 
Art Clokey short for Arthur Clokey was an American animator who was fond of the idea of stop motion clay animation. He began in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, This was influenced by his professor slavko Vorkapitch at his university in Southern California. After the Gumbasia project, Art Clokey and his wife Ruth came up with the clay character Gumby. Gumby became a familiar presence on American TV. Starting in the Howdy Doody Show and then later got its own series called The Adventures of Gumby. As the show had finished a few years ago some episodes are still being broadcast. In the 1990’s Gumby: The Movie was released and this is also still aired today on some channels.

TV Cartoons 50's 
Looney Tunes is a warner Brothers comdy series of animated short films. It was produced from the 1930 till 1969. Thiswas Americas golden age in animation. An alongside series was Merrie Melodies this was produced till from 1931 till 1969. Originaly Loony toons and Merrie Melodies had no speach just sound and music these were played through episodes with characters such as Bosko and Buddy. Later Loony Tunes featured more characters which are still very popular today such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Sylvester and Tweety, Wile E Coyote and The Road Runner. These characters are most commonly referred to as the Looney Tunes. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies exeeded the works of Disney and other popular cometitors including Paramount's Famous Studios, Universal's Walter Lantz Productions and MGM. Looney Tunes has now become a worldwide media franchise. They have made several films, comic's, music albums, video Games and amusment park rides. The Most popular Looney Tunes character was Bugs Bunny. Looney Tunes has been regarded as some of the greatest animated cartoons of all time. This year in 2013 Looney Tunes was ranked the third greatest cartoon of all time.

Animators

George Melies

His full name was Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, born on the 8th of December 1861 in Paris. As his professional job George was a magician and an animator. He discovered when he was filming in Paris one day that he could start doing different effects that looks abnormal all in camera as there were no way to do special effects. As he was filming a woman in Paris crossing the road his camera got jammed after he fixed the camera the woman had moved, and in her place there was a horse. As he was watching the film back it looked like the woman had turned in to a horse. He took this idea and realised he could start doing special effects that would not be normal in real life. such as in the film 'The man with the rubber head'. He used him self in the movie and when his head is in the middle of the screen and looks like it is on the table. he rapped him self in a black cloth on a black background and then just filmed over the orignal film. When his head started to grow it was just the camera moving forward towards his head in the same place.

He made many films but most got destroyed as the first world war for the silver nitrate and plastic in the films for bullets and clothing in the war. Also his studio got took over and it was turned into a hospital. After the war was over in about 1923 his studio building was knocked down to make a road. One night after he lost all of his money and went bankrupt because he was not able to make films he went in such a rage he burned all of his negatives, some originals of his films and also his sets. For the next 10 years he worked as a toy maker and a shoe repairer in a train station until some one discovered him again. After that he got accepted onto the French film board but didn't continue to make anymore movies but he gained his respect back. Also he was the firs ever person to add colour to one of his films by actually colouring in each different frame on the film reel. 

Winsor Mccay

Winsor Mccays full name was Zenas Winsor Mccay. He was an American cartoon artist and animator. He was most famous for his character little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur. All of his animations were drawings, drawn on paper each picture slightly different from the last. When these pictures were draws they were the photographed and then played back at 25 frames a second. His Cartoon Gertie the Dinosour was around 5 minutes and 30 seconds long this means there would of been 2250 pictures drawn to make it. Most of his animation were based on the books he rote himself. 

Lotte Reinger

Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was her real name, lotte was just a nick name given to her. She was a woman animator that had a different style of animating. She cut out black cardboard shaped people that were small enough to fit into your hand then she had them layed out infront of her and to make them look like they were moving she shined a light on to them from a background to make them stand out to the camera. When making them move she realised she could cut out individual parts of the character like there arms and legs and move them ever so slightly one after the other then took a photo of it then played back to make it look like they were moving. The animation shown above is Hansel and Gretal and childrens book that has been around for many years.

Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney or Walt for short was one of the most famous animators and ideas man there has ever lived. He was the first man to actually have sound in one of his cartoon and that cartoon was Steamboat Willie. This was animated the same way as Winsor Mccay but instead of drawing his image on a white peace of paper so it had no back ground, Walt drew his on clear sheets of plastic so he could have a background with drawing a number of them if on the move the background is going to be the same through out and also so he could see better what he had drawn last. There are no actual spoken words in the cartoon as it was not as advanced back then as it is now so they could not sink there mouth up with the words being spoken. But they do make noises and when something happens in it that makes a sound that will be added in to it as well along with the music that is playing in the background.

Persistence of Vision

 Persistence of Vision

Persistence of vision is the key to how see view things in animation, film, video or computer games. With animation, film, video and computer games, the images on the screen do not actually move. What you are actually seeing on the screen is a number of still images, slightly different from the last playing one after another in a sequence. (no less than 1/12th of a second). When the images are played back to you, the eye can not actually tell it a sequence of pictures because the brain and eyes are tricked so that you think that it is moving because they are moving faster one after the other so your brain cannot process them quick enough.

Persistence of vision has been around about 7000 years in ancient china. Also in the Victorian times there was a love for novelty and inventions. There was many toys and gadgets that was made in that age that used the process of persistence of vision.

The Zoetrope

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A Zoetrope is a drum shape with an open top so you can put a piece of paper inside of it with 12 pictures on, each pictures is very different from the last. There are also 12 slots in the sides of the drum where if you look in to them as it is spinning it looks like the pictures inside of the drum are moving around. This is the illusion that it the pictures are moving. 

PES

This animation was made by PES. It uses mostly everyday objects acting like food to pretend it is making a Guacamole dip then he uses poker chips as the crisps that he is dipping into it. Pes normally make animations for different companies such as Coinstar and Orange. to advertise there products. sometimes it doesn't even look like a animations it just looks like a video because of how smooth his hand moves. Pes and this animation won the 'Best Animation Short' in 2013.