Animators: Why Did The Artists Cross The Road

As any cliché artist would say, “I started drawing a lot when I was younger;” but not me –I can’t remember when I started to enjoy the arts. I have always been driven to create and express myself. I painted scenery to calm my nerves, draw intricate objects to focus on details, and draw dynamic poses to allow development of my eye. The mountain of used sketchbooks fills its’ own bookcase, dating back to early elementary years when I would create little stories much like a comic book. Despite my deep love for the arts, I always loved animation much more. Animation is the perfect blend of drawing and creating visual aid, while elaborately designing a storyline and plot to engage the audience –animation lets the average audience member to feel

Animation is the technique of photographing successive drawings or the positioning of models to create illusion of movement in the movie. Animation is all around us. Animation is in our homes, schools, and workplace. Films that used animation were mainly Disney movies. Disney movies used animation in cartoons every since mid 1900s.

There have been many animated movies that were very popular during the 1940’s and 50’s. Some are still watched and have been recreated in today’s times: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and Dumbo. Although not the first animated movie to be created, Fantasia (1940) was the first movie to connect classical music with animations.

Some directors may depend more upon their art directors for input into the film's overall appearance. "A film art director acts as the administrator of tasks performed by each member

Animation has changed in many ways over the years. We evolved from two dimension to the high end 3D we see in today’s films. We went from the flip book with hand drawn animations to the computer animation in movies we know today. We are still changing and improving animation today and will continue to improve over the years. Many inventions that helped to make animation what we know today is the Phenakisticope. The Phenakisticope is a widespread animation device that created a illusion of fluent motion. This was one of the first fluent animation in the early years. This type of animation is very similar to a gif because it has a short duration and plays on a loop until the viewer stops it.

From there in 1892 Emil Reynaud invented the Praxinoscope. This was a theatrical Zoetrope that had mirrors placed on the inside so that he sequenced drawings that are inside of the drum reflect of the mirrors like a projector. From there nothing really big happens until the 1900’s. In 1900, Stuart Blackton creates a prototype of animation, “The Enchanted Drawing”. This isn’t considered a proper animation because Blackton can be seen in the film altering the drawings, but Blackton then creates

One thing that has always given me interest is the process through which Disney movies go through in order to wow us like they always do. Both Disney Animation and Pixar movies focus mainly on being number one over Dreamworks movies and any other cartoon producers in the industry. Looking closely though, I realized there is more to it than just drawing and speaking for the characters. There’s a process that can last from months up to years. Let’s take a look firstly at how Disney Animated movies are made.

Famed Canadian animator Norman McLaren once said, “Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.” In this medium, the creator has complete control over what the audience sees. Not bound by the limitations of budgets or technology, an animator can create anything that they want. Animation runs the gambit, from realistic works like ‘The Polar Express’ to stylized ones like ‘Inside Out.’ Whatever is in the filmmaker’s minds can be transposed onto paper and projected to the masses. While many talented animators have made great movies

The design team set the tone for the production. They set the lighting,costume, and sound on the stage. The design team have to get a feel of the directors vision so the actors, stage, and costumes can match the interpretation of the scene. Production teams can collect ideas; this will benefit the collaborative process. It also will provide a first impression and clear outlook to the directors vision. Example ,If the screenwriter wrote a part in a play that cause for white hair ,but the director thinks red hair will enhance the actor features then compromise. Working together,being supportive and figuring out a way to produce results because collaboration is essential for

The beautiful picture on the screen needs to be created with quite a bit of detail but what exactly is animation? According to Merriam Dictionary, animation is, “a way of making a movie by using a series of drawings, computer graphics, or photographs of objects (such as puppets or models) that are slightly different from one another and that when viewed quickly one after another create the appearance of movement” (Merriam). Frame by frame, animation requires countless hours of attention to make seconds or even minutes of work that can make up a full-length film. Animation, before 3D animation, was hand-drawn, silhouette, stop motion, and countless other techniques that use to fill our lives. On July 29th, 1928, Walt Disney made one of the biggest advances in animation by matching sound to animated picture. It was a true

Before computers became universally used and accepted motion pictures were made using traditional animation. It was a process that most animated films were created with during the 20th century. Individual frames were typically photographs of drawings. In order to create the illusion of movement, animators created each frame slightly different than the one previous. This process was used to create the treasured classics Pinocchio.

This was up till its last drawn animation of The Lion King in 1994, when other animators like Pixar and DreamWorks came up with more modern computerised 3D films, such as Toy Story in 1995; Ants in 1998 and Shrek in 2001. All these animations had box office success and all were computer generated.

The definition for animation as stated in Oxford Dictionary is “the technique of photographing successive drawings or positions of puppets or models to create an illusion of movement when the film is shown as a sequence”. There are many types of animation besides 2D and 3D. Some of them are stop-motion animation, puppet animation which we commonly known here at Malaysia as wayang kulit, clay animation or claymation which uses clay, zoetrope animation where still images are drawn on a drum and turned in a circular way thus creating an illusion of movement and one of the oldest, yet still fascinating, the flip book animation. Animation is originated in the 19th century, where

This modernization era, animations become a common thing to the modern people. There is a lot of animation in this era from television series, films, and even in music video and animation also comes with different types from 2D animation to 3D animation, stop-motion animation and also Computer Generated Imagery (CGI). Animations have been put to use in various purposes like commercial, teaching or learning. Almost everyone knows about this type of animation but there is difference between different country such as Eastern European animation and Western European animation. Even though both of them In the Europe region they are differences in their animation like style and technique.

There is a huge industry dedicated to animation and creating entertainment like movies, cartoons, video games, and educational software to deliver a message, tell a story, and/or educate the masses. Animation is the process of creating a continuous motion and shape change illusion by means of the rapid display of a sequence of static images that minimally differ from each other. Anyone who as ever turned on a television, gone to the movies, or seen a commercial has been exposed to an animation style at some point. Some love animation and some are not so interested in it, but regardless it is a booming business that started out simply and is evolving at a rapid pace.