A list of animations that you should watch!

PLEASE contibute to this!
Add links to other animations that you have discovered by replying to this post.

The following are animations that I am fond of:




Here is a fantastic website detailing the animation process. Have a look at the storyboard section...

Styles of animation- With added monsters!

These are the three most widely used styles of animation. You will be using all of these in the creation of your masterpiece "My journey".

*YOU MIGHT WANT TO TURN THE SOUND DOWN ON YOUR COMPUTER BEFORE WATCHING THESE*

1. Traditional cell animation...



This is a cartoon called "Gertie the dinosaur" from 1914, by a gentleman named Windsor McKay. Gertie, is credited as being the first ever animated cartoon character!

you can read more about this here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertie_the_Dinosaur


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2. Stop frame animation...




This is a technique that involves moving real objects one step at a time and taking photographs.
When the photographs are played back at film speed (often 24 frames per sencond) they create the illusion of movement. This clip is by one of my animation heroes Ray Harryhausen (more of him later!)...

You can read about Mr. Harryhausen Here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harryhausen

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3.Computer generated animation...



This is a commonly used technique in modern animation. Computer generated models save millions of hours of work. Continuing with the monsters theme, the example above is from the 1993 film Jurrasic Park. This, at the time was considered ground-breaking animation, I think it still looks great today. The effects were produced by Industrial light and Magic a team, who are responsible for hundreds of the best known film special effects ever. Read about them here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Light_%26_Magic

Oddly enough, when trying to find the above clip, I stumbled upon the clip below. Someone has managed to recreate the kitchen scene using stop motion. It's ace!

Where am I? What am I doing?

Glad you asked!

You are currently working on an animation called

"My Journey"

Below VVV is a ongoing list of the stages of the project you have been working on. So far you have:

* Got yourself a sketchbook (a nice one!)

* Had a brief introduction to the software that you are going to be using such as Photoshop, Illustrator and most importantly- AfterEffects.

* Brought in lots of personal items such as: Toys, greetings cards, trinkets, postcards, photographs etc...

* Started to make a "stock" of images that can be used in your animation: Scanned objects, stop motion of objects, photographs of yourself moving.

* Been doing LOTS of contextual research! And there's a lot more to come!

* Started basic image editing on Photoshop- cutting out objects, removing backgrounds, saving as PSD (photoshop files) -the long and tedious bit!

Welcome aboard!

Hello all,

I've been meaning to do this for some time and have done something productive with my snowday.

This is a "blog" that will run alongside the animation module of your first diploma course.

I will be using this to remind you all of previous sessions and to give you easy links to all manner of exciting research!

This can be accessed from anywhere, but college policy often blocks youtube, so there is stuff on here that you can watch for homework.

You can add to this blog with any thing that you think is interesting, simply by replying to each post. PLease do.

If you need to contact me, use:

iamjonrimmer@gmail.com

onwards...