Leanne Wibrew
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Studios and their creations
Different types of animation
Well known animated films
Well known cartoon characters
Animation technology
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This was founded by Peter Lord and David Sproxton back in 1972.
Four years later they then created Morph from the show ‘Take hart’.
Peter and David were always interested in attracting an older audience
with model animation, so they created a show for Channel 4 called
‘Conversation pieces’.
In 1985 Nick Park joint them due to meeting at the National Film and
Television School.
Then moving on into 1993 they created a world wide winning 30 minute
animation called ‘The wrong trousers’. It became the best made
animation ever.
Over the years they became more well known producing
shows such as ‘Shawn the sheep’, ‘Chicken run’ and
‘Angry kid’.
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He joined Leon Schlesinger Productions in 1933 as an assistant animator,
the studio were known for producing the Looney Tunes and Merrie
Melodies for the Warner Bros.
Over the years he started to collaborate with Seuss, in creating an
animation based on the book ‘How the Grinch stole Christmas’.
In 1953 the Warner Studios closed for a period of time so Jones found
work with Walt Disney Pictures, and started work on Sleeping Beauty.
He was involved in other shows such as ‘A chipmunk christmas’,
‘Gremlins’, ‘Mrs Doubtfire’, ‘Lilo and Stitch’ and ‘Daffy Duck’.
After his death, Daffy Duck for president which was a book by Jones was
released in animation in memory of himself.
His most famous creation was Bugs Bunny.
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In 1924 Iwerks joined Disney Brothers productions (Walt Disney) and was
put in charge of the animation ‘Oswald the luck rabbit’.
He was Disney’s right hand man when it came to creating Mickey mouse.
He used the cell animation method just like Chuck Jones.
His name was featured on road signs in the cartoon ‘Fairly odd parents’
and a storyline similar to his relationship with Walt Disney was featured
in ‘The Simpsons.
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Rotoscoping
Claymation
CGI
Drawn animation
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An animation technique invented Max Fleischer.
The Fleischer brothers used this to create Koko the clown.
A strip of live-action footage can be traced and redrawn as a cartoon.
This technique was used in their pioneering series Out of the Inkwell in
1919-29.
It was used in films such as Beauty and the beast, Snow white, Lord of
the rings, Gulliver’s travels, Forrest Gump and Ghostbusters.
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A use of stop-start using clay.
Clay models are made and a still picture is taken of each position, it then
is played over to make it look like the clay character is moving.
Claymation has been around in some form since the invention of
plasticine in 1897.
Films that were made by this include Wallace and Gromit, Chicken run,
Creature comforts and Morph.
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This is where the character is created on the computer to make it easy to
manipulate.
It makes the characters look that little bit more realistic.
Some films include Toy story 2, Shrek, Shark tale, The Incredibles,
Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc and The Polar Express.
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This is where the animations are drawn on a piece of paper and then redrawn in a different position to make it look like it’s moving.
Some programmes are The Simpsons and Family Guy.
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Toy story
Shrek
Avatar
Pinocchio
Peter Pan
Lady and the Tramp
The Jungle Book
Aladdin
The Flinstones
Sleeping Beauty
Alice in Wonderland
Winnie the Pooh
The little Mermaid
Happy Feet
Madagascar
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Homer Simpson
Popeye
Mickey Mouse
Garfield
Tom & Jerry
Fred Flintstone
Spiderman
Bugs Bunny
Superman
Felix the cat
Casper
Woody the Woodpecker
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Motion capture:
For motion capture you use human actors who are dressed in a leotard
with integral reflective or magnetic markers. The actor performs the
actions that are required, and the digital cameras capture the motion of
the reflective markers. A computer processes and converts this motion
into a composite figure. The end product gives the effect of an animated
character acting directly with human actors.
Gollum is a good example of this.