Animation Information

Animation Types
Four Main animation types
Flip book Animation:

• Very simple way to make an animation
• Created with pencil, rubber and coloured pencil depending on what you want to achieve
• Drawing material such as post stick pad
• The style can be experimental and creative as you draw what you please

​     Stop Motion Animation:

• Makes use of figure and bodily objects to make an animation
• You can begin with the use of toys
• You use them and capture them as photo images 
• Once you finished doing that process you then use a video edit software
• These then turn into moving image videos

                

         2D Animation:

• A digital version of a flip book
• animations where visuals are made by drawing in a software
• need good drawing skills
• there’s tools to help increase the speed of drawing
• animation will appear to seem smoother
• you can easily adjust the timing of the animation

          
           3D Animation:

• makes the animation using 3D virtual space
• has the potential to make realist and stunning sights
• able to do this because of its calculations
• this purifies the Image and makes it look as realistic as reality 

ISSUES WITH ANIMATION

First fully computer-animated film was Toy Story, released in 1995. Now currently in the theaters, animations use big screen, 3D display, great surround sound, and amazing computer graphics to appeal to the viewers more than ever before. However, major problems still seem to occur within these industries continuously: layoffs and studio closures.
           Recently, 350 employees in DreamWorks have been laid off, due to low performance on its previous film “Rise of Guardians.” Also in DisneyToon Studios, 17 of 60 full-time employees have been laid off. Because large animation companies try to stay competitive with the other companies, they want to maintain top quality in their animated films. So if the animators don’t do a flying job on a film, the chances are, they might be fired. This is recurring problem could be a great concern for the animators, and the competition among them will only grow bigger.
            Another big problem in animation industry is the studio closures. With high competition to make the best animated films, low quality studios are bound to go bankrupt. Considering the high cost of the filmmaking, many studios do not even get a chance to produce their first films before going defunct.  Also, Internet’s pirating of the films decreases the possible incomes they could have made. There are multiple factors the industries could consider in order to reduce these problems within.

         As for layoffs, I think they are unavoidable for the studios because of harsh competition. However, as for studio closures, there might be some ways to prevent loss of profit.
            One of the scariest creations of human beings is the Internet: the ultimate source of data collected by billions of people around the world. Many times, people tend to overlook the power of the Internet since it looks so peaceful and organized. However, it is one place where people can decide to stay anonymous, and they use their creative minds for all kinds of matters going on in the Internet. One of those is pirating. Even though it is illegal to use other people’s work for your advantage, it is very hard to regulate millions of anonymous people online. This free access to supposedly pay-to-get things causes loss for the companies that made the work. Most often pirated works online are movies, games, and music. If this loss could be prevented, there
would be more profit for the companies, therefore reducing closures.

THE ROLE OF SOUND IN /ANIMATION

​The Role of a Sound Designer in Animation Sound design is acquiring, generating and manipulating audio elements. Within Animation it is commonly use to compose music, spot sounds and sometimes voice elements, to create a desired mood or effect. Jimmy Macdonald worked for
Disney as a sound designer. He made many instruments to manipulate sounds that could not be brought into a studio. Floorboard squeek Frog Croak Marching Footsteps Sound Design is usually done in post production, which ties the piece together, but would be thought about in preproduction.
Sound Design is used in all sectors of animation, as its a vital part of story telling, setting the tone time and place.
Ben Burtt Ben Burtt is an American sound Designer, he has worked on Star Wars, E.T and Pixar's WALL-E.
When working on WALL-E, he created 2600 sound files to create WALL-E'S whole world, he gatherd lots of mechanical sounds and pulled out the best to make his robotic world. Burtt manipulated sounds to create the emotions of WALL-E to show the audience what WALL-E was going though, as he has no voice.
 

FILM PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES

composition : basic aesthetic theory
symmetry vs. asymmetry
energy
colour
weight
and vertices
depth - centres the subject into a frame
creating illusions of depths

DIFFERENT JOB ROLES WITHIN THE ANIMATION SECTOR :

 animation director or supervisor- they take all the responsibility for the quality of the animation

animator(2D computer animation)-animate scenes, camera movements and charts information on dope

sheets

animator (2D drawn animation) they make a range of static drawings which create the illusion movement

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ANIMATION PRODUCTION PROCESS

process in which animation is made:
concept
storyboard
scripts
drawings
photographs
temporary sound track
animatic
pipeline-test