evaluation:

Term 3- Creative Media Animation-ish Blog Evaluation

Definitions:

Animation-

A simulation of movement created by displaying a series of pictures, or frames. Cartoons on television is one example of animation. Animation on computers is one of the chief ingredients of multimedia presentations. There are many software applications that enable you to create animations that you can display on a computer monitor.

Note the difference between animation and video. Whereas video takes continuous motion and breaks it up into discrete frames, animation starts with independent pictures and puts them together to form the illusion of continuous motion.

Keyframes-

A key frame in animation and filmmaking is a drawing that defines the starting and ending points of any smooth transition. The drawings are called "frames" because their position in time is measured in frames on a strip of film. A sequence of keyframes defines which movement the viewer will see, whereas the position of the keyframes on the film, video or animation defines the timing of the movement. Because only two or three keyframes over the span of a second do not create the illusion of movement, the remaining frames are filled with inbetweens.

Tweening-

Inbetweening or tweening is the process of generating intermediate frames between two images to give the appearance that the first image evolves smoothly into the second image. Inbetweens are the drawings between the key frames which help to create the illusion of motion. Inbetweening is a key process in all types of animation, including computer animation.

Stop motion definition-

Stop motion (also known as stop frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Dolls with movable joints or clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Stop motion animation using plasticine is called clay animation or "clay mation". Not all stop motion requires figures or models; many stop motion films can involve using humans, household appliances and other things for comedic effect.

Traditional animation examples:

Examples of traditionally animated feature films include Pinocchio (United States, 1940), Animal Farm (United Kingdom, 1954), and Akira (Japan, 1988). Traditional animated films which were produced with the aid of computer technology include The Lion King (US, 1994) Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away) (Japan, 2001), and Les Triplettes de Belleville (France, 2003).

Limited animation examples:

Animated cartoons which made use of limited animation include Gerald McBoing-Boing, Rooty Toot Toot, Mister Magoo, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Underdog, The Pink Panther, Little Einsteins, Clutch Cargo, and Kinnikuman.

Examples of stop motion animation styles:

Examples of stop motion animation styles include:

·      Clay Animation

·      Toy-Mation

·      2-D Clay Animation

·      Paper Animation

Reflections on Blog (discuss the choices you have made, difficulties encountered, skills/techniques you have developed):

The choices my colleague and I have made through out this project have varied. We made choices a quarter through the project that we needed to split the scenes and stop working as a team. Difficulties we encountered were time management but this has taught us not to slack off in class time.