Time Lapse

Time Lapse

This is a time lapse of the construction of one of the world trade center buildings. A time lapse in animation is a camera in a still position taking a photo every so often in the clip above a photo got taken once every hour. and in some cases every day or five minutes. Every photo that gets taken gets put into a editing software and it makes it look like it is filming in fast movement.

Cut out animation

Cut Out Animation

cut out animation can be several different options the first option can be hand drawn an example of hand drawing cut out animation is above. it is made up by series of original drawings and put into a sequence 

The second option is silhouette cut out animation this is made out of black paper and every different moving piece is a different piece of paper.

an example of a cut out artist is Trey parker he made the americain hit show South Park.

Model Animation

first step you create a model design in our case we made to human models second step you open up IStop motion when the programme is opened you take an image of your first frame. then you move that frame ever so slightly and take another photo this creates the effect that it is a moving image. you take 12 photos per second and our film went on for 10 seconds so we took 120 photos. after this is complete you export the clip and the movie is done.

Nick Park

Nick Park created the animation Walace and Gromit. an example of his work is above.

Otmar Gutman

Otmar Gutman created the hit TV show Pingu an example of his work is above.

Tim Burton 

Tim Burton created many films such as the nightmare before christmas and James and the giant peach an example of his work is above.

Early Animation Devices

Zoetrop is a series of pictures going around in a circle this makes it look like a moving image.

Phenakistoscope
Re-animation from an 1833 McLean's Optical Illusions, or, Magic Panorama disc. The phénakisticope was the first widespread animation device that created a fluent illusion of motion.

Kinetoscope 



Mutoscope

Cell Animation

Cell animation

Mona the vampire was made with cell animation, cell is another word for plastic how it is created is you get 25 drawings a seconds and each episode went on for 20 minutes this equals to 30,000 drawings in a episode. mona the vampire was made in 1999 and it was created by Sonia Holleyman

this trailer is from the film A scanner darkly the technique used in the film is called rotoscope it projects something in front of you and you trace it. the director was called Richard Linklater and released in 2006, the first films that used this technique were made in the 1940s an example of the original technique is superman this was made by fleisher

Early Animation

Georges Méliès was born around december 188, he was most famous peace of work was a trip to the moon animation this was released on 1 September 1902 he used substation splices 

Winsor mccay was born September 26, 1869 his most famous piece of work was little nemo this was made in October 15, 1905 it ran for over 20years

Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger made the animation The Adventures of Prince Achmed  she used the technique paper cut out. the film  

Persistence of vision

Persistence of Vision tricks your brain in thinking its a moving video but it is just still images playing after each other in a fast motion.

Mona The Vampire

Mona the vampire was made by Sonia Holleyman. she only made the series Mona The Vampire