Thursday, 25 October 2012

Animated TV shows

Recess

                             


Recess is a Animated TV show which aired from 1997-2001. Plus One Animation is a South Korean animation studio founded in 1991. Their most famous works include King of the HillDoug, and Recess.

Rugrats


Rugrats is an American animated television series created by Arlene KlaskyGábor Csupó, and Paul Germain for Nickelodeon. The series premiered on August 11, 1991 

Noddy 


Fireman Sam


Fireman Sam is a children's TV show. The show was originally done in Stop Motion Animation but because the episodes took to long to create so they changed to CGI, plus CGI was easier to do. 

Thursday, 18 October 2012

Pixilation (Class Project)



During this lesson we had to create a video from stop motion animation. The method was we went into iStop Motion animation. We took a lot of pictures but we changed them slightly and the brain is tricked into thinking it's moving. The Video was 12 frames per second & we exported the video to a AVI then it was uploaded to our youtube channels we then took the embed code to add it too our blogs. 


Thursday, 11 October 2012

Cartoons.

Donald Duck: Out on a Limb (1950) 


This production of Donald Duck was released on the 15th December 1950. Donald Duck was created by Dick Lundy, he was voiced by Clarence Nash (1934-1985) Tony Anselmo (current)Donald Duck is still going today.

Goofy in 'Motor Mania' (1950)
This production of Donald Duck was released 30th June 1950, It was the first goofy cartoon to have goofy redesigned with a lack of both floppy ears and front teeth. Goofy was created by Walt Disney. 


Spiderman TV theme song (1960)

The theme song of the show has become a popular standard. The lyrics were written by Academy Award winner Paul Francis Webster, while the music was composed by Bob Harris.

Scooby Doo (1969)

The Scooby Doo TV show was created September 13, 1969 till 1973. 


Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Three Early Animators 


George Melies' was a French illusionist and a film-maker, His most famous work is "Trip to the Moon" which involved a group of people travelling in a spaceship to the moon to explore it, His other work was "The Impossible Voyage" which both involve space travel. He accidentally discovered stop trick, which is when something seems to dissapear and reappear somewhere else in the same scene.

                                                  This is a video of George's Work:






Winsor McCay, was an American cartoonist and animator who created a comic called Little Nemo, He is most famous from his animation called "Gertie the Dinosaur" which is considered the first original character with a personality.

Here is a video of his work: 




Lotte Reiniger is a silhouette animator and movie director, she made short films/movies using cutouts and pupettes. One of her famous animations is called The Adventures of Prince Achmed
Which was made with carboard and thin sheets 

                                           A example of her work is below: