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Definition of ANIMATED
1a : endowed with life or the qualities of life : aliveb : full of movement and activity <an animated crowd>c : full of
vigor and spirit : lively <an animated discussion>
2: having the appearance of something alive <an unusuallyanimated piece of sculpture>
3: made in the form of an animated cartoon <an animatedfilm>
— an·i·mat·ed·ly adverb
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Examples of ANIMATED
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She gave an animated description of the project.
After dinner, the discussion got more animated.
Many movies for kids are animated rather than live-action.
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First Known Use of ANIMATED
• 1534
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Related to ANIMATED
Synonyms: active, airy, animate, lively, bouncing, brisk,energetic, frisky, gay, jaunty, jazzy, kine
tic, mettlesome,peppy, perky, pert, pizzazzy (or pizazzy), racy, snappy,spanking, sparky, spirite
d, sprightly, springy, vital,vivacious, zippy
Antonyms: dead, inactive, inanimate, lackadaisical,languid, languishing, languorous, leaden, li
feless, limp,listless, spiritless, vapid
Robots of Brixton by Kibwe Tavares
• A really short synopsis of Frankenstein, or
The Modern Prometheus would be:
• A young Swiss student discovers the secret of
animating lifeless matter and, by assembling
body parts, creates a monster who vows
revenge on his creator after being rejected
from society.
• http://www.maryshelley.nl/
Early Animation
• Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906)
• by newspaper cartoonist J. Stuart Blackton
Fantasmagorie 1908
Emile Cohl - Fantasmagorie 1908
[French]
• http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aEAObel8yIE
• Emile Cohl created the first fully animated film,
Fantasmagorie (1908), and in the process lifted
cartoons out of the realm of trick films and started
them on the path toward animated features. The twominute film Fantasmagorie (alternatively, in English:
A Fantasy, Black and White, or Metamorphosis) is
made up on approximately 700 double-exposed
drawings, using what is known as a "chalk-line
effect", a technique probably borrowed from early
animator James Stuart Blackton.
Winsor McCay - 1911 - Little Nemo
Winsor McCay - 1911 - Little Nemo
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kcSp2ej2S00&feature=related
• New York Herald comic-strip animator and sketch artist Winsor
McCay (1869-1934) produced a string of comic strips from 19041911, his three best being Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend, Little
Sammy Sneeze, and Little Nemo in Slumberland (from October 15,
1905 to July 23, 1911). Although McCay wasn't the first to create a
cartoon animation, he nonetheless helped to define the new
industry. He was the first to establish the technical method of
animating graphics. His first animation attempt used the popular
characters from his comic strip (and became part of his own
vaudeville act): Little Nemo in Slumberland (1911) (with 4,000
hand-drawn frames), followed by How a Mosquito Operates (1912)
(with 6,000 frames).
Gertie the Dinosaur 1914
Gertie the Dinosaur 1914
• http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hwVoFQsiOA&feature=PlayList&p=54DEE4
C3355476B4&index=7
• http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=36gqBo
USJ4M&feature=PlayList&p=54DEE4C3
355476B4&index=0
Gertie the Dinosaur 1914
• Walter McCay first prominent, successful and realistic
cartoon character or star was a brontosaurus named
Gertie in Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) (with 10,000
drawings, backgrounds included), again presented as
part of his act. In fact, McCay created the "interactive"
illusion of walking into the animation by first disappearing
behind the screen, reappearing on-screen!, stepping on
Gertie's mouth, and then climbing onto Gertie's back for
a ride - an astonishing feat! It was the earliest example
of combined 'live action' and animation, and the first
"interactive" animated cartoon. Some consider it the first
successful, fully animated cartoon - it premiered in
February 1914 at the Palace Theatre in Chicago.
[W]Ladislaw Starewicz Cameraman's Revenge
[W]Ladislaw Starewicz Cameraman's Revenge
• http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vIC0Sb6pLvI
• Wladyslaw Starewicz' childhood passion for
entomology led his career: he began producing
short documentaries in Moscow around 1909-1910,
beginning with a documentary about insects in
Lithuania. In his spare time, he experimented with
stop-action films using beetles, which he articulated
by wiring the legs to the thorax with sealing wax!
This, of course, led to his big breakthrough, released
by the Van Kanjonkov Studio of Moscow: "The Battle
of the Stag Beetles", the first puppet-animated film.
Lotte Reiniger
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
• The little-known but pioneering, oldest-surviving featurelength animated film that can be verified (with silhouette
animation techniques and color tinting) was released by
German film-maker and avante-garde artist Lotte
Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (aka Die
Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed) (1926, Germ.), based
on the stories from the Arabian Nights. Reiniger's
achievement is often brushed aside, due to the fact that
the animations were silhouetted, used paper cut-outs,
and they were done in Germany. And the rarely-seen
prints that exist have lost much of their original quality.
However, the film was very innovative -- it used multiplane camera techniques and experimented with wax
and sand on the film stock.
Lotte Reiniger - Cinderella
Japanese Early Animation
Japanese Classic Cartoon (1933)
• UGOKIE-KO-RI-NO-TATEHIKI(1933) (Moving
picture -Fox and Asian racoon's cheats each
other) Director: Ikuo Oishi In the temple that
became ruins, the fox that disguises as the
samurai does the fight of magic with Asian
racoon's parent and child.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyGvGMa
2RFg
Eastern European Animation
• Holló Jankó
• http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=na9Kn
MZv3Rk&feature=related
• "Holló Jankó" (also known as Janko
Raven) from the animated series "Magyar
Népmesék" (Hungarian Folktales).
Nowy Janko Muzykant
Nowy Janko Muzykant
• http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q_JVga
VDDfI&feature=PlayList&p=54DEE4C33
55476B4&index=16
• Experimental animated film, telling the
story of Janko, the musician.
Jan Švankmajer
Jan Švankmajer
• Czechoslovak animator extraordinaire, Jan has been
making intensely bizarre films since the mid-'60s. Most of
his work is a mix between 3-D stop-motion animation,
puppets and live-action, but it can involve any mix of the
above. His stories are eerie, delightful, and surreal. His
actors include real people, machines, socks, clay figures,
antique dolls, pencil sharpeners, and skeletons or stuffed
corpses of animals, among other things. His sets are
usually decaying Czech buildings or landscapes,
decorated with waste of the industrial age: rotting
furniture, rusty nails, sawdust, oily screws, and the like.
Alice by Jan Svankmajer
BAGPUSS
BAGPUSS
• BAGPUSS EP1 PT1 (A tribute to oliver
postgate)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6GgxHoqUho
• Pre CGI, this saggy, old cloth cat first appeared
in the shop window in 1974. Through a series of
sepia photographs we were told the story of a
little girl named Emily who owned a shop where
lost items were placed in the window, in front of
Emily's favourite stuffed toy, Bagpuss
UK Children’s Animation
Creature Comforts
• Creature Comforts
• http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P3AAd
kfiamU&feature=PlayList&p=AF3847178
8E4BF63&index=1
• Politicians debate the war in Iraq
(Creature comforts)
• http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6N_tns
vmeAo
Japanese Manga/Amime
• Naruto Manga 433
• [HQ English]
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUH
C61xZlGQ
CGI
• toy story 2 videos bloopers
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWcl
gyyIfUs
Finding Nemo [07/11]
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfgeI
ZyrIM0