Animation By Ollie

How Does Animation Work

In my mind animation is a moving image and making films and or cartoons to create entertainment.

There are different types of animation such as, stop motion, 2D animation, CGI and paint glass.

Animation works by using certain types of computer software and also can be created by using pencil drawings and stop motion uses real life objects such as clay, Lego or action figures.

Inspirational Animators

Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, author, and manga artist

Through a career that has spanned five decades, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and as a maker of anime

He is highly known for his anime film called Spirited away

Timeline

1887-start of it all-H.W Goodwin invented a celluloid film which could hold images, made of gum cotton and camphor

1892-Early morning picture-A man in France, Emil Reynaud opened theatre using a praxinoscope, used mirrors to reflect moving images

1983- Tomas Edison-Using the celluloid film developed by H.W. Goodwin, Edison was able to produce moving film pictures on the wall. The film moved over a series of wheels to produce the pictures.

1899-Sound is captured Using a magnetic recording device, sound was recorded for the first time. Animation enthusiasts would latch onto the technology.

1900-Encharted drawing-A man named James Stuart Blackton used animation techniques to produce a short film. It documented the drawing process of characters, without ever showing the artist; this made it seem that the drawings simply appeared.

1908-First-A Frenchman name Emile Cohl produced a film called "Fantasmagorie." It was a hit, and is known today as the first true animated film.

1920-Felix the cat-A man named Otto Messmer, who had been working in animation for a few years, created a character named Felix the Cat. Felix was very successful and even ended up including dolls and watches.

1928-steamboat Willie-Walt Disney didn't give up on making animated films. In 1928 he released a short film called Steamboat Willie featuring Mickey Mouse and using sound for the first time, and it was an instant hit.

Review Of Animators From Two Decades

Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, CBE is an English director, writer, and animator best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.

Park was born on Brookfield Park in Preston in Lancashire, England and grew up on Greenlands Estate, Preston and later moved to Walmer Bridge, where his mother still resides. He is the middle child, of five siblings. He was born to Mary Cecilia Ashton (born 1930), a seamstress, and Roger Wulstan Park (1925-2004), an architectural photographer.[citation needed] His sister Janet lives in Longton.[7] He attended Cuthbert Mayne High School (now Our Lady's Catholic High School).

He grew up with a keen interest in drawing cartoons, and as a 13-year-old made films with the help of his mother – who was a dressmaker – and her home movie camera and cotton bobbins. He also took after his father, an amateur inventor, and would send items – such as a bottle that squeezed out different coloured wools – to Blue Peter.[8]

He studied Communication Arts at Sheffield City Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University) and then went to the National Film and Television School, where he started making the first Wallace and Gromit film, A Grand Day Out.