Animation Through The Ages

WHAT IS ANIMATION

•Animation is a group of moving pictures to make an object or a character to look like it is moving for example a stickman walking along a road.• Animation is a easy way to represent reality. It is

also a easy way to show emotion to others from any age and to show a point to others.

•For example if you show a fire safety cartoon to young children they are more likely to watch it and learn the safety issues of fire.

TYPES OF ANIMATION

• 2D and 3D

• Hand drawn

• A series of images put on A slide

• Moving pictures

Hand drawn (Cel) drawn

It is when you have to draw every frame by hand and it is another traditional way.

Drawn on a transparent sheet for hand drawn traditional animation.

Also you can use paint to do the animation.

The Flip Book

The flip notes are created by using a number of sheets of paper stuck together.

you draw a image on the corner of a book all the pages there will be a drawn.

An example of a flip book would be a stick man walking.

Animated Cartoon

What is a animated cartoon? Animated cartoon is characters moving and talking for a T.V.

program. Traditional cartoons would be drawn and now we have modern

animation which lets us to create more smooth around the edges.

Software like flash.

Animation process

Design through story boards You draw it on paper You develop it on Adobe Flash And then you make it into a movie and test it and modified it if

needed.

GIF

Stands for Graphics Interchange format Is a group of images shown how to be played by being put them

what whey they are put in order. Are a small file size smaller than bitmap.

DHTML

Instead of having basic buttons on a website you can have dynamic ones that light up when you hover over it.

It also allows you to add a gif to a page. DHTML is a website language

XHTML

It is another website language. It too also allows you to create a web page.

Java applets

They are used to create web animation. It is an application but a small one which gives it its name which

is applet. Applets aren't complete software applications, they work only in

conjunction with a browser.

Optical llusion

Sometimes referred as persistence of vision It makes you think that animation is happening when your mind

is taking in a image moving fast that there is animation, For example Thaumatrope

Another example would be flash, when you see a stick man running you can she the previous frames.

Claymation

Claymation was a old way to show cartoons and animation back in the 1980s

It was a more traditional way of showing animation. Is one of the famous styles of stop motion. For example Pingu the old Claymation animaton

Stop motion

Stop motion is when you have to stop the character in the animation and move him a ting bit each time

It is the traditonial versoin of stopmotion The modern stopmotion is flash as in each frame you have to

move the character a wee bit each time to make him look like that they are walking

Compter Generation

Frame rate

That if you go to fast it can see the previous frames. Every frame on the frame rate would be like flicking a page in a

flick book. The automatic speed for frames is 24 fram per second it will

always need adjusted for animation.

Frames

They are like pages on a flip book Each frame can hold a different movement on a image

Key frame

A key frame is a frame in flash that lets you see the previous page in flash

A sequence of key frames defines which movement the viewer will see

Onion skinning

onion skinning is when you want to make your animation move and that you can go back to your previous frame and you can change any changes that is needed.

With out it we could not see or previous actions.