Time Lapse

Time lapse is a technique used to show multiple images going at a very quick speed as if time has been sped up. It can also be used with people growing hair or changing their figure, this also applies to things decomposing a in fruit.

Time lapse is created by using a series of images (preferably the same thing) taken at either 1 a minute or more or less varying from 1 a day to 1 a week to 1 a month to 1 a year.

Time lapse usually contains the use of a camera on a tripod to keep the image still and make it look better without the camera moving.

Here are a few examples of Time Lapse

These time lapse examples show just what you can create by using time lapse and the outcome can result in being excellent.

Cut Out Animation Preview

Preview

Today in stop motion animation we were editing our cut out animations in iStopMotion to create a little video to show what we have made in the final draft.

Here is a picture showing what we are doing to our cut outs.

This is our finished piece.

Cut Out Animation

Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam is a famous cut out animation artist who had created the show 'Monty Python'. The show as created by many paper cut outs of various characters, these all involved weird illusions and movements that a normal body could not do. Terry usually created animation about political comedy with newspaper cutouts and characters he had designed.

Here is an image and a little animation that Terry had created.

Michel Ocelot

Michel Ocelot is a french animator, character designer and director of animated shows. He has a different perspective on Terry Gilliam as his work is mainly french cartoons. Here is one of his animated videos to show his work compared to Terry Gilliam.

Our Cut Out Animation

We are going to try and replicate a short film of a cut out animation with people playing instruments and people dancing. We will be creating this by using random cut outs of people and things within newspapers, catalogues and magazines. This will help us find various items that we may need. We will be using iStopMotion to create our short animation. 


Here are some pictures of our characters.

With these 2 characters we will make them dance and play the banjo by moving various body parts to show them doing something weird and impossible. Our characters have been included with different body parts to make our characters weird. We will need to finish the cut outs in order to complete this.

Stop Motion Models

Model

Today in Stop Motion Animation I created a little something out of clay to use in my new stop motion video. To do so I used clay to model it together and then assembled it with a tool to make it all stick together without falling apart. I think I could of made a better model i i had more time and was a bit more creative.

Modern Day Animation - 1980's +

Family Guy

Modern Day Animation is based on cartoons with an adult and teenager humour. Both these types of humour can be found within shows such as South Park and Family Guy which are created by Seth Macfarlane. Some shows can cause people to feel annoyed or offended like Family guy and South Park due to the humour they add which is either repeated or offensive. Family Guy is usually on TV around 10pm where most adults would be most likely to watch it, this restricts children from watching it and refraining them from being offended. Here is some information about the show.

Genre	Cutaway gag humor Black comedy Off-color humor Surreal humor
Format	Animated sitcom
Created by	Seth MacFarlane
Developed by	Seth MacFarlane David Zuckerman
Voices of	Seth MacFarlane Alex Borstein Seth Green Mila Kunis Mike Henry
Theme music composer	Walter Murphy
Composer(s)	Walter Murphy Ron Jones

The Simpsons

The Simpsons is created by Matt Groening and is aimed at an audience of teen/adult life. The Simpsons reflects on average families which can have something in common with. This show in my opinion is can be a little annoying but is not offensive in my views, the simpsons is a very common TV show usually played around 6pm. The Simpsons is a cartoon comedy which is suitable for all ages and doesn't contain much abusive language or horror. Here is some information about the show.

Genre	Comedy Satire
Format	Animated sitcom
Created by	Matt Groening
Developed by	James L. Brooks Matt Groening Sam Simon
Voices of	Dan Castellaneta Julie Kavner Nancy Cartwright Yeardley Smith Hank Azaria Harry Shearer (Complete list)
Theme music composer	Danny Elfman
Opening theme	"The Simpsons Theme"
Composer(s)	Alf Clausen

Stop Motion Test

Today we done a little stop motion animation test by using iStopMotion to take snapshots which takes loads of photos in a small amount of time causing them to look like a moving image. This allows you to do the impossible; making someone float or swim on the floor. We used human props to create this pixilation but you can literally use anything you ant to create a stop motion animation.

Pixilation was used by a man called Norman Mclaren.

iStopMotion was at a frame rate of 12 frames per second; this explains why the video wasn't smooth as it should be, the format we exported it through was DV pal 16:9 and the total size was 67MBS. This allowed us to upload it straight to youtube to allow anyone to gain access to it.

This little test could of been improved if we had spent more time thinking what we were going to do and where we could do it, we could of also spent more time being accurate with the taking of the photos by keeping them very close instead of having jumps within the sequence.

TV Based Animation - 1950 - 1970

Wacky Races

Wacky races is an American Animated TV series which was produced by Hanna-Barbera. The series was inspired in 1965 by the film 'The Great Race'. Wacky races was shown on CBS from september 14 1968 to January 4 1969 which 17 episodes were produced featuring 2 different races each show.

The characters/contestants of the show were:

Dick Dastardly and Muttley in the Mean Machine

The Slag Brothers in the Bouldermobile

The Gruesome Twosome in the Creepy Coupe

Professor Pat Pending in the Convert-a-Car

The Red Max in the Crimson Haybailer

Penelope Pitstop.
Sergeant Bash and Private Meekly in the Army Surplus Special.The Ant Hill Mob in the Bulletproof Bomb
Luke and Blubber Bear in the Arkansas Chuggabug


Peter Perfect in the Turbo Terrific.

Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes is a warner bros. animated cartoon series The first release in the 1930's "Sinkin' in the bathtub" the series has became a worldwide media franchise with more t.v. programs , films, comics,and video games. Walt Disney was the creator of Looney Tunes but had help from many different people.

Buggs bunny

Some of the characters were:

Daffy Duck 

Elmer Fudd

Goofy Porky Pig

Tweety and many more...

Popeye

Popeye the Sailor was created by Elzie Crisler Segar. Popeye has appeared in comic strips and animated cartoons within the cinema aswell as on the tele. Popeye first appeared in the daily king features comic strip on January 17 1929. Popeye ate spinach to increase his muscle and strength to defeat a bad guy which must of had an impact on kids/viewers to eat spinach by showing the effect.

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What is Persistence of Vision?

Persistence of vision is a row of images/photos which are flicked or moved in a certain i.e. spinning which makes the image look as if they're moving. The pictures need to be taken really quickly so the character/object doesn't jump and the character/object must only move in little sections the the image doesn't jump and mess the rest of the sequence up. 

A Zoetrope is a chinese spinning device with little slits placed around the cylinder, you then place an image within the Zoetrope and spin it whilst looking through the slits; you should see the image moving in a certain way repeating itself.