Animations

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: