Monday, 21 September 2015

Cel Animation

A cel which is short for celluloid, is a sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn animation. The characters are drawn on cels and laid over a static background drawing. But since it was flammable and dimensionally unstable and because of this it was replaced. 

Advantages - Saves time, effort and cost because you don't have to redraw the entire frame. Removed the jittery appearance of pre-celluloid frames..

Disadvantages - still needs to be photographed and put on film. Characters and other objects could not be saved and reused due to their physical nature. Complex process involving requiring a high level of skill


The advantage is that that cell animation looks crisper/cleaner and most has a more highly detailed look to it. is more expressive of style, and has a much more classic feel to it, and makes the audience more easily able to relate to characters. cell animation is revered as a classic art form. the only disadvantage to cell animation is that it takes a long time to produce a cartoon or film due to the huge amount of frames needed to make movement and is very time consuming as well, and because of this it is more expensive to produce 2D/traditionally animation films. 


Patented in 1915 by John Randolph Bray and Earl Hurd, it has dominated the animation industry, virtually unchanged until the introduction of computers.


Monday, 7 September 2015

Flipbook

The flipbook is a book with a series of pictures that go from one page to the next at a fast speed and when this happens it simulates motion and these inventions were mostly made for childrens books but were also used by adults.

The only equipment necessary for creating a flip book was a lot of paper or a notepad and a pencil.

The first flip book appeared in September, 1868, when it was patented by John Barnes Linnett under the name kineograph ("moving picture"). They were the first form of animation to employ a linear sequence of images rather than circular.

advantages  - easily make your own animation movies, cheap to make (time apart). Can be added to and extended.

 disadvantages  - not robust, high degree of artistic ability and imagination required. Time consuming. Characters and scene must be redrawn on each page. Cannot be changed easily, pages cannot be reused.








Stop-Motion

Stop-motion also known as stop frame is a animation that manipulates an object that appears to move on its own and when this works it creates an illusion of movement when the frames are played as one.

The equipment that you would need to make stop-motion are Professional, low cost, multi-axes, table-top animation motion control rig or the ideal tool for all 3D stereoscopic animation or time-lapse photography, stereoscopic stepper for heavy duty with convergence option and a very compact stop frame, timelapse and video/HD head.

The first instance of the stop motion technique can be credited to Albert E. Smith and JStuart Blackton in 1898.

These are the advantages  of stop-motion are Cheap to make and  film like an the disadvantages are its  very demanding on time and effort, can require a lot of artistic ability.