Below is a link to a YouTube video showing a house being built in a time lapse format, this video shows a house being built in 7 minutes which actually took them 6 months to build. Time lapse is something else, it can even have background music on such as if it was a time lapse of a city from morning to night. An example of a time lapse could be taking a picture of a flower every hour for a week then viewing the footage back and seeing what has changed.
Cel based animation is a traditional form of animation used in the productions of cartoons and short films / animated movies where each frame of the scene is drawn by hand. A full length feature film produced using cel animation would often require a million or more drawings. An example of cel based animation is shown below, it is an animated film called Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs created by Disney, an example of a scene of the movie is shown below which is the transformation from a woman to an old witch.
Cut Out animation is a technique for producing stop-animations by using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or even photographs. An example of Cut Out animation is below, its a paper cut out animation piece where paper has been cut into shapes for example a sun and clouds which are then coloured in to make it look realistic.
Another example of cut out animation is South Park as you can see below, it is an animated TV series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, The characters in South Park and the props and backgrounds are all a cut out animation piece.
Finally Lotte Reiniger was a big animator back in her time, she was a specialist in silhouette animation with her husband, as you can see above is an example of her work, the cut out animation is superb, it must have took her a very long time to get perfect.This animation piece was made in 1935.
Below is a link to a short animation, myself, Jared and Ryan created, it is from cut out things from random magazines. I enjoyed doing this excercise as it was something very different to the other types of animation, however it was a little bit more difficult thinking of ideas to create a short story from the magazines. I maybe tempted to attempt this type of animation in the future however I have not yet decided. For this excercise as it was a practice we thought we'd make the storyline comical which is why Leonardo Di Caprio is being born by a random model with a body lotion as his body.
As you can see below is a short video animation piece which I have just created, I have created this by using modelling clay to create a character. I used iStopMotion 3 to complete the task I was given, my animation was 17 seconds long as you can see. I completed this task by taking single images per every shot, each shot was 1 second long therefore there is a lot of shots in this short animation, this can be compared to big movies and TV series like Shaun The Sheep and Wallace and Gromit where there must be thousands of shots. This is how modelling clay can be used to create animation. At around 9 seconds in I selected all of it then copied and pasted then reversed it which added another part to the short animation. The camera I used is called HueHD, a clever camera which is very flexible making it a lot easier for the animation to be filmed.
Another example of modelling animation has been created by Ryan Marr, he used the same technique as I did however his animation was longer than mine therefore there are many more shots.
There are many animations where characters need to be made in order for it to be complete, for example ' Postman Pat ', ' Scooby Doo ' ,' Shaun The Sheep ' etc. I also have created an animation character with the help of modelling Plasticine with linseed oil which is added. As you can see below this is my animation character.
There are many professional animation companies out there including a big one called Aardman, this company is well known due to it creating Wallace And Gromit, Shaun The Sheep and many advertising campaigns for other businesses such as Funky Pigeon. Aardman also created Pip and Pog, an animation very similar to Tom and Jerry, they do things to hurt / trick each other but they're always fine in the end. In this video below Pip And Pog are used in an advertisement for Dairylea Dunkers.
Another animation project was The Lego Movie, above is a very clever scene from The Lego Movie where the main character turns into a master builder and he builds a machine which helps his friends and protects them from the robots and the bad guy in the movie - ' Lord Business '.
George Melies was a French illusionist and film maker/director and was famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of the cinema. He was born in Paris, France December the 8th 1861 and died January 21st, 1938 ( Aged 76 ). He was known for his involvement in The Voyage Across the Impossible, A Trip To The Moon, The 400 Tricks of the Devil and The Devilish Tenant, however he was involved in many more short films. 2 of these short films are below.
Winsor McCay
Winsor McCay was a writer, producer and director, he was born September 26th, 1871 and died aged only 62 on July 26th 1934. He was mainly known for Little Nemo which was a short animation TV series and Gertie the Dinosaur. As you can see below the video shows you how good Winsor McCay was in animating and the way he coloured in every part of the story. The animation was the piece of a 10 minute short film entitled "Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics". Winsor McCay set a very high standard with this piece of animation and therefore had a big impact on animation.
Lotte Reiniger
Lotte Reiniger was born on the 2nd of June, 1899 as Charlotte Reiniger. She was a Director for animation projects and a writer. She is known for her work on ' The Adventures Of Prince Achmed ' and ' The HPO '. When Lotte Reiniger started doing animations she got very successful, it meant she could go to the institute for cultural research which was an experimental animation and short film studio. This was where she met her spouse, Carl Koch. She made six short films whilst she was there, all produced and photographed by her husband, some of these films even had special effects for there time - this being a silhouette falcon for a dream sequence for the film ' The Nibelungs '. As you can see above there was also a silhouette feature in "Däumelinchen".
For a wedding planner a church would be very useful because that's where most people get married, this image is from alamy, this website is an image library, the screenshot below is a picture of the church from the website. Legally to be able to use this picture as your background on your computer this means you would have to pay £9.99 as it would be classed as a personal use. A presentation is quite similar with the same price being £9.99 the same as personal use. For this picture to be allowed on a website other than alamy it would cost £17.99. For it to be published into newspapers, books and magazines it would cost £39.99 the same as it to be for a small marketing package for a small business. Finally for it to be on a large business marketing proposal it would cost £149.99.
Secondly for a college party an image such as the one below could be used because most college students / adolescence drink alcohol the regret it a lot the next day. This picture is exactly the same as the one above with the same prices. This image is also from alamy, an image library.
Finally the image below could be used for a wildlife photography exhibition as the picture is of a bird which most people associate with wildlife, as well as there are people who like to bird watch professionally, this pictures prices are also the same as the 2 pictures above. This is also from alamy, a big image library company.
