Animation Flashcards
Unknown Russian Woman
paper butterflies moved
Meiles
Creates “stop action”
Vanashing lady
Camera jammed restarted - men became women - carriage became hearse
Store advertisment
Shown in theaters
childrens blocks spelled out stores name
Edisons execution
cut head off a dummy for the execution of queen mary
toys
toys came to life (moved)
Humpty Dumpty film
first cartoon short
Drawing inserted into film - a few frames moved
Edwin Porter
a. bread dough makes faces - fun in backery shop
b. Dream of a rarebit
c. teddy bears (goldilocks and the three bears)
Billy Bitzer
Clay figures that move “claymation”
Virginia May
British sculpture
1st fight between pre-historic animals based on fossilized bones
Joesph Roop
Tom and Jerry
Animated puppets - wire frames and clay
tom = black kid
jerry = mule
Drawing
Cells most popular in US
Puppet animation
most popular in asia, Europe, India, etc.
Asian shadow puppets
made out of paper
European marionettes
very popular
Prague
puppets on strings filmed (czech Republic)
They would cut the strings and shot frame by frame (stop motion)
Worlds greatest stop motion
Rudolph II
Court artist archimboldo
made portraits of inanimate objects
Svankmajer + Maley
Clamation
“Dimension of Dialogue”
“light dark light”
Prague stop action objects: meat in love
Aspect with alice - puppets with actors
Films weren’t shown in U.S
not money makers
They were awarded around the world except US
Never shown in Czech republic until wall went down (Berlin wall) russian war
Willis O’brien
Patent camera/rear projector
screen/projects
The lost world - prehistoric territory
Kong - pteranodon - Fay Ray
Built building sideways and actor would climb up looking like climbing building
Ray Harryhausen
“Dynamation” - Spielberg hero
The seventh voyage of sinbad - duelling skeletons
The golden voyage of sinbad
Jason and the argonaught - favorite by Spielberg
Got more sophisticated (rear projection) further development
How many shots per animation
2 identical shots
Europeans hand
would only have three fingers and a thumb
Stan Wiston
Jurrastic Park - was going to use stop motion then switched to CGI
Tim Burton
Nightmare before christmas
200 puppets - 60 characters
change heads to change lips to talk
20 puppet sets
50 animators working
1 week = 1 minute of film
oil based clay - metal ball and socket armiture
Corpse Bride
Claymation - In england Gromitt
Armature
Movable parts
Pixalation
People move as puppets - shot one frame at a time
people move like stop action puppets
Paper and object animation
Popular in russia, prague, and australia
Cell draw
Celluloid animation
Walt Disney
1st sync-sound animated short - steam boat willie
First time sound was attached to a film
silly symphonies
Animated real life animals for his films
storyboards
Storyboards
used to tell stories by picture
was able to move around different pictures in the story
Disney cells
multiple layers of cells
Snow white
1st feature length animated cartoon
before world war 2
who took credit for disney films
most drawers were women but men took credit
Pinocchio
start of world war 2
Fantasia
lost money till DVD
Invented: 3 color process - “technicolor” bright colors
Invented: “Fantasound”
“stereo sound” - multiple speakers in theater
Beauty and the Beast
1st animation oscar nomintation “best picture”
Got shots that nobody would be able to film in real life
Lion King
Made the most money of any entertainment
Who framed Robert Rabbit
Actors + Cell drawn animated characters
Hayo Miyazaki
Japanese animator
worlds greatest living animator
draw all characters by hand
spirit away
