Year 9 Creative Media

Animation


Key-Frames

Key frames are important frames which show one action then the next.
Keyframes don't show the movement to get to one action to the next.
In big productions where traditional animation is used the main animator and his team will do each key frame so they work fast and get the production finished as soon as possible.

Tweens
Tween are in between keyframes showing how a character or object got from one position to the other.
They are the movement frames.
Productions will often have a team just to do the tween frames.

here is the bouncing ball that we did last lesson.


Here is the walking man that we did this lesson however Mr Andrew commented that there is no shadow so I have decided that it isn't a man but a walking colourful ghost.

Today Mr Andrew taught us about several different animations, tradigital, cut-out, clay and stop motion.

Tradigital Animation 

- This is the animation that is drawn by hand or by computer.
- It is the animation where you flip the pages very quickly, creating the illusion of movement.
- The faster you flip the pages the more fluent the movement becomes.

An example of tradigital animation:
The makings of Snow White can be seen in this film.
The actual film.

Cut-out Animation


- This is animation which usually involves a background and moving parts.
- It is where a object moves while everything else is often still.
- The smaller the movement you make the more fluent it will become.

An example of Cut-out animation:


Another example of Cut-out animation is Southpark (the earliest episodes)
Here's a little clip from Southpark:

Clay Animation


- This is an animation which uses clay and usually stop-motion.
- For a small 30 second animation producers usually need several of the same main characters because after awhile features of it look worn out and twisted unlike the original character, so they need backups which they can just slip in and replace.
- Again the smaller the movement that occurs the smoother it will look.

An example of Clay Animation:


A well known example of clay animation are the Wallace and Gromet films.
Here's an excerpt:


Stop Animation


- This animation is made by taking lots of pictures and putting them together to create the illusion of movement.
- Stop animation is the most common and easiest form of animation and just about every other type of animation uses it.
- The more images captured will make the movement more fluent and less jerky.

A couple of examples of stop motion:


Coraline is a movie made of stop animation.
Here's an excerpt: