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!