Sunday, 30 January 2011

Development

Joseph Plateau:- He was the first person to imagine and show the illusion of a moving image. He used a teachnique phenakitoscope this technique used a counter rotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other this gave him a important in devleopment of animation because he was who came up with the theory of a moving image.

William Horner:- He is the major figure in animation who created the zoe trope although it was orignal given another name before being named zoetrope it was known as Daedalum the wheel of the devil. The inventation used similar princiaples as Joseph Plateau but this would created more slits and when spawn a person would be able to see the pictures moving where in fact with speed of the rotation made them infact just appear to be moving.
Zoetrope from the late 19th Century

Charles Reynaud creatd the first viewed animation film in public in 1892 Pauvre Pierrot In Paris. He used a teachnqiue known as praxinoscope and was actually a school science team. He left a legacy in animation and created greats films but was crushed in his later years through the new cinematography dejected and penniless he threw the msot of his ireeplaceable work innto the seine.

Edward Muybridge:- Edward Muybridge was an english photographer who spent most of his life in the united states. He is mostly recgonised for his zoopraxiscope.The zoopraxiscope projected images from rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the impression of motion. The stop-motion images were initially painted onto the glass, as silhouettes. A second series of discs, made in 1892-94, used outline drawings printed onto the discs photographically, then colored by hand.


Edison (kinetoscope) :- The kinetoscope was an early motion picture device. It was designed for films to be viewed induvidually through a cabinet. He and his employees william Keendy and Laurie Dickson between 1889 and 1892 . This was use standard by all cinematic projection until the invention of the video.


Lumiere brothers:- The lumiere brothers created the first film. They created the first ever film by filming workers leaving work. They was a amssive infulence on film and started off working for their dad before takign over the family business.

George Pal:- George pal was a hungerian born american inventor. In 1933 he made an advertisment in his hotel room in Paris. and was invented by Phillips. He left Germany when the naiz's got to power and moved to america.

Monday, 10 January 2011

12 principles of stop animation

Squash and stretch:- It gives a sense of weight and flexability to drawn objects.

Anticipation:- Is used to give the audience a warning for an action to make the action appear more relastic.

Staging:- This is used to show the audience the importance in a scene what may happeneing and what is happening.

Straight ahead action and pose to pose:- Straight ahead action means drawing out a scene frame by frame while pose to pose draws out the important frames then fills in the gaps later.

Follow through and overlapping action:- Follow through means the different body parts will carry on after the charcater has stopped while overlapping action means is the rate the different parts move at and togetehr show them defining the laws of physics.

Slow in and slow out:- Is the principle which shows animations ahs to simulat human movement so they do this by doing mroe at the the start and end and fewer in the middle.

Arcs:- This is trying to recreate the joint which makes humans and animal move in a certain way called trajectory they try recreate this by using a problic trajectory this can apply by a moving limb or a thrown object.

Secondary action:-Means adding a secondary movement to add more relastic affect to the scene.

Timing:- Timing means the number of drawings or frames for a given action which translates the certain speed  of the film or action.

Exaggeration:- Exaggeration is useful to make a scene more relastic because the aim of animation to make it realstic as possiable so if a scene needs exgration it can hekllp achieve this by variey through the scenes.

Solid drawing:- Is the of making a solid drawing and taking into account 3d giving them weight and volume.

Appeal:- Appeal is showing the affect of the charcters it should of the audience for example a villian should be hated where as hero should be loved for example dorie the explore the young audience like dorie but hate swiper this kind of affect is what is attended.