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.
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 theMetro-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.
